The SharepointFx CodePlex site is now undergoing its due revival.Although we planned to publish these components a year back,due to the busy schedule we didn’t able to publish the components but its never late and the response looks good. Here is the Link to the site
http://Sharepointfx.codeplex.com .Also see few of the screenshot of the components we uploaded recently:-
Facebook Like Discussion Using SharePoint Discussion List
Quick StockTicker
Calendar View
Although HTML5 is not completed yet , there are lot of buzz around the spec and features it provides .Many thought that it may be the death nail for Flash and Silverlight and there were lot of initiatives on HTML 5 already started.Although industry is still in its starting state , its worth looking at the media,mobile,Canvas,Offline Storage,Geolocation,Sockets and notification etc. are worth taking a look.
The Spec http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Difference with HTML 4.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
Good Online book to deep dive into HTML5 http://diveintohtml5.org/table-of-contents.html
Also see the HTML5 Contest http://www.html5contest.com/?page_id=6 and win prizes.
Template or take Decision for Velocity:-
The communication between the cache servers and cache clients uses the WCF channel model and net.Tcp binding. Cache Servers use the 22233 (default) TCP port for communicating with the cache client
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ttlValue and make a process refresh the local cache more frequently, the increased load on the cluster may outweigh the benefits of having the local cache. In such cases of frequently changing data, it is best to disable local cache and pull data directly from the cluster· Expiration time on Velocity should not be set to very small values, which lead to increasing memory consumption, not decreasing. This occurs because of delays of garbage collection calls―old data expires, but remains in memory, and a new copy of data is added to memory.
· Velocity may scale better than linearly when scaling up from a small number of memory-poor nodes to store most-used data. Increasing the number of Velocity nodes increases the amount of memory available for most-used data and eliminates the database bottleneck.
For CacheClient :- Preparing the Cache Client Development Environment
The cluster configuration storage location can be a single point of failure for your distributed cache system. For this reason, we recommend that you use Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130692) when you can, to optimize the availability of your cluster’s configuration data. Consider which “clustered” resources are available to your application (in your environment) and balance that with the degree of availability required for your distributed cache system to decide which storage option is best for you.
For example, your infrastructure may already have a “clustered” SQL Server database available to store your configuration settings. Alternatively, there may be a “clustered” folder available for you to deploy a shared folder-based cluster configuration.
· Employ a large number of cache hosts.
· Deploy your distributed cache system within the perimeter of a firewall, with all servers members of the same domain, including the cache clients, cache hosts, primary data source server, and the server hosting the cluster configuration storage location.
· Use SQL Server or a custom provider to store the cache cluster configuration settings.
· Use SQL Server or a custom provider to perform the cluster management role. For more information, see Lead Hosts and Cluster Management (Windows Server AppFabric Caching).
· When possible, use Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130692) to host a “clustered” database resource for the cache cluster configuration storage location.
· Minimize costly configuration changes that require stopping the cluster. When possible, re-create named caches instead of stopping the entire cache cluster to make cache configuration changes in the cluster configuration settings.
· Always use the Stop-CacheHost command to stop the cache service before rebooting a server. When lead hosts perform the cluster management role, the Stop-CacheHost cmdlet will not succeed if the act of stopping the cache service causes the entire cache cluster to shut itself down (because of no majority of running lead hosts).
REF:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790934.aspx
Cache Preload :-
MustRead http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff714581.aspx
Preloading,ParallelLoading etc;
Cluster settings :- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790895.aspx
Velocity benchmarking https://files.griddynamics.net/VelocityBenchmarkWhitePaper20090901.pdf and
http://toddrobinson.com/appfabric/appfabric-cache-feature-comparisons/
With MVC http://cgeers.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/windows-server-appfabric-caching/
AppFabric Cahing vs IBM Exterme Scale http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-AppFabric-Caching-vs-IBM-eXtreme-Scale-benchmark and Here is the benchmark With Code http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/ff923354.aspx
Dynamic Router with AppFabCaching http://tinyurl.com/37jcctv
Vittrio has posted a Nice Blog Entry on how to test the Claims and Federation using test Token generated using SelfStS.In Short SelfSTS is a nice little tool which will helps you to test your Identity app without ADFS 2.0 or AD available,Since it ll issue a token via Ws-RED,an endpoint and metadata .You can also create temp Certificate etc. more details on Vittorio’s blog .
Was going thru LightSwitch and although MS claims its to be different than MS Access(Access is for business users and Light Switch for developer) ,I don’t see it much difference than Access from functionality and usability stand point.What application you used to build with Access(anyone now still build reports with access?) ,you can give LightSwitch a try.I don’t find it for any other use at this point. The beta1 is available now ..see more detail below http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/08/23/lightswitch-beta1-now-available-building-your-first-app.aspx
Here is the List of 15 free Enterprise Collaboration tools.Worth Checking Out .Here is the Link
ParallelExtensionsExtras project available as part of our .NET 4 samples, which can be downloaded at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.
See more here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/04/04/9990342.aspx
Posts thus far in the series:
Of late the NO-SQL movement is gaining popularity and lot of people have started blogging about NO-SQL.Now the question is how much do you think it ll take time to see real-world NO-SQL applications in top level Enterprises.Ted Neward has written a Very Cool Article on NO-SQL on MSDNMAG May Edition. MongoDB,CoucheDB are already quite Popular now and of late getting lot of traction.If you wants to learn more See the Following posts and Links
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2010/04/14/dont-believe-the-hype-come-to-nosql-eu-april-20-22/
Here is the Video for Configuring TFS with SP2010 from the SharePoint DevWiki Site.Link http://www.screencast.com/users/jthake/folders/SharePointDevWiki.com%20Screencast/media/2659fc52-2749-4bf4-872e-1ddd60471334 .
In the same site you ll find bunch of other Screen Cast on SharePoint .Here is one I found cool using SpDisposeCheck with VS http://www.screencast.com/users/jthake/folders/SharePointDevWiki.com%20Screencast/media/73537e49-4aff-46b8-bf59-d7693c7c9ea2 .
StyleCop version 4.4 Beta released with fully support all C# 4.0 syntax, will integrate into VS2010, and will provide a number of improvements over version 4.3. This project is currently in beta.Get the Downloads and Details from Codeplex here http://stylecop.codeplex.com/.
You can get the Code Rush from here http://www.devexpress.com/go/CodeRushX.aspx and the Demo Video here http://tv.devexpress.com/#CRX91FeaturesCS.movie
This is a quick tip which I found useful to get your development fabric running on SqlServer and not SqlExpress.By default Azure takes the Express Edition and if you want your sqlserver to be non-express you need to provide a “.” and not the SqlServer Instance name and the username should be domain/username and pass it to DsInit.exe .
Not sure [have not digged into] from which config does the Azure tools pickup these values but this can save your significant time ,if you have not seen this before.
The OreDev Site has quite a few free downloadable videos on Architecture,Agile,Test,PM,Mobile to name a few .I found that there are lots of cool and useful sessions available from industry experts on variety of areas .
Here is the Link
Shreeman 