Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Launch at SLIIT

SLIIT is one of the most popular Universities in Sri Lanka. I was invited to host two technical sessions in the month of August for the launch of VS 2010 and SP 2010.

The first session was on Visual Studio 2010. Covered most of the new and cool features of VS 2010 IDE.

My second session was all about my love SharePoint 2010. Actually this was a totally new experience for most of the participants as it was the first time they heard about SharePoint. But feedback I received made me amazed, session was a kick start for many students.

Read Uditha’s Blog for more pics.

ASP.NET Workshop at Wayamba University

This was a two day session. I was invited as a guest speaker to host a session on ASP.NET. The attendees were very enthusiastic about the session. As it was a Workshop they were managed to work on Visual Studio and to create ASP.NET applications.

Visual Studio is a product which can be used to develop applications without having a clue about basic concepts or core of it. But as a techie, that’s something I strongly refuse to do nor guide anybody. So with the chance I got, I hosted the session giving an introduction on how ASP.NET handles a client requests.

Thanks to Mr. Wellington, Microsoft Student Champs and to Wayamba Uni Team.

I was at Tech.Ed 2010 Sri Lanka

Yep I’m way too late to publish this post. But today I found few community sessions I did, which I couldn’t publish in my blog, so its always better to be late than never.

It was in February 2010, Microsoft Sri Lanka organized Tech-Ed 2010 Sri Lanka. The second day, 9th February 2010 was a remarkable day for me. I was invited to host a 1 hour Session on Microsoft Wrokflow Foundation 4.0 by the organizing committee. Though 1 hour is not enough, I gave an introduction to WF and to the new features of WF 4.0.

Bruce Schneier, the security guru was one of the guest speakers. I was lucky to sit for a pic with him

SharePoint 2010 SDK

An updated version of SharePoint 2010 is available for download which is around 334Mb. The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, code samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies.

What’s New in this SDK Update

This free update replaces previous 2010 versions of the SDK and includes the following:

    * New code samples:  Silverlight List Viewer, plus new samples in Business Connectivity Services (BCS), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and User Profiles and Social Data
    * Updated documentation, including: new and updated How To, reference , and conceptual content
    * Updated IntelliSense XML files for tooltips and auto-complete in Visual Studio

Here are two MSDN topics listing new and updated content and code samples in the AUG2010 version of the SDK (14.0.4763.1031):

    * What’s New in the SDK for SharePoint Foundation 2010
    * What’s New in the SDK for SharePoint Server 2010

A complete listing and description of the 44 code samples currently available in the SDK can be found here on MSDN Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sp2010sdk.

Have fun with SharePoint :)

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands

I was playing with some PowerShell Commends. Suddenly came to my mind, how to get the whole SharePoint 2010 related PowerShell Commands. Simple as given below.

Open the PowerShell Window (aka SharePoint 2010 Management Shell), type the command…

Get-Command –PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” | select name, definition | format-list > C:\SP2010_PowerShell_Commands.txt

Have fun with PowerShell.

SharePoint 2010 for Developers

Today the 13th May, I did another successful presentations with demos on “SharePoint 2010 for Developers” at dotNetForum monthly session. Actually it’s a very special day to all the techies as 12th was the Global Launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Though it was bit warm without the air condition, there were over 100 attendees. In the two hour session I covered 3 main topics.
. What’s new in SharePoint 2010 (for Developers)
. Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint
. Deploying SharePoint 2010 Web Parts.
With the time constraints, I was unable to cover the 4th topic, “Deploying SharePoint 2010 Workflows”.

My sincerer thanks to all the participants and special thanks to Jinath and Wela.

Business Process Automation with SharePoint and Workflow Foundation

Yeah, I know I’m late on this too. On Friday the 7th May 2010 at ANC auditorium I hosted a workshop on “Business Process Automation with SharePoint and Workflow Foundation. Actually it was my 1st workshop (Free of charge) at NetAssist, a nice crowd of over 90 participants were attended.

This workshop targeted both the Business users as well as the technical users. Started with an introduction to SharePoint 2007, followed by InfoPath 2007 forms and Workflow on SharePoint Designer and OOB Workflows. I’m happy as the Q&A session too went very well, many questions came from the business users. Photos after the brake. Thanks everybody who attended.