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Farm, Sandbox, or Client Object Model?

Written by: Johnny Bouder Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

When developing solutions for SharePoint 2010 there are 3 primary options for development. These options are as follows: Farm Sandbox Client Object Model (Managed, Silverlight, and Javascript) It’s great that we’ve been provided options, however with these options we’re also presented with a choice. And in my opinion you should choose wisely, because each option [...]

Open XML in the Sandbox

Written by: Johnny Bouder Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

Sometime back I was given the task of taking information in an email and automating it into a specifically formatted word document (kind of a strange request I know). With me being a complete OpenXML noob, I have to admit it turned out to be much more difficult than I originally thought. Also, I had [...]

The Central America Domestic Violence Hackathon – Day 2

Written by: Amir Zonozi Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

The amazing event continues, The Central America Domestic Violence Hackathon entered day 2 in all seven countries; Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Washington D.C. Bright, early, and ready to go in DC.., the entire MetroStar team made it back for a day full of hacking for a good cause. Team MetroStar: [...]

Domestic Violence Hackathon – Day 1

Written by: Amir Zonozi Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

7 Countries – 1 amazing event. The Central American Domestic Violence Hackathon has begun (January 26th and 27th) in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Washington D.C We’re in Washington DC and here’s our recount of day 1. Goal: Address the challenge of domestic violence by building technology solutions to assist agencies [...]

Helping Domestic Violence Victims through Technology

Written by: Theresa Kattula Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

The MetroStar Team is proud to announce its participation and sponsorship of the Central America Domestic Violence Hackathon, an event hosted by the World Bank. Alongside the World Bank and organizations throughout Central America and Washington, D.C. MetroStar will be competing in the Central America Domestic Violence Hackathon Saturday, January 26-27th. Through this hackathon, The [...]

Upgrading Azure SDK from 1.7 to 1.8

Written by: Lee Kohn Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

I recently installed VS2012 which required that I upgrade an Azure Solution of mime from 1.7 to 1.8. The automatic solution upgrade worked pretty well except for one issue. The upgrade didn’t update the reference to the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime DLL from 1.7 to 1.8. This didn’t cause any problems when compiling but when trying to run [...]

Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: Using SharePoint Features within Office 2010 Applications

Written by: Jennifer Hersko Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

Applies to SharePoint 2010 Users can work with SharePoint features from within Office applications without navigating to a SharePoint site. Save documents directly to SharePoint from an Office application Using Office applications, users can save files directly to SharePoint, without uploading documents to a library. Save a document to SharePoint Using the Office Save to [...]

Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: Sum Calculated Columns

Written by: Jennifer Hersko Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

Applies to:  SharePoint 2010 About Summing Calculated Columns Calculated columns are great, but if you expect to be able to total calculated columns using the Totals feature in the View Settings, think again.  To sum calculated columns in a list you need SharePoint Designer 2010, a web part page, a data source, and a line [...]

Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: Color Coded Calendars – Out of the Box Solution

Written by: Jennifer Hersko Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

Applies to:  SharePoint 2010 Color Coded Calendar – How it Works With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided out of the box functionality to color code SharePoint calendars.  This is achieved using the Calendar Overlay feature which utilizes list views and calendar overlay views called New Calendars.  Prior to SharePoint 2010, if a user wanted to [...]

Jenny’s SharePoint Tip: Overview of Library and List Commands

Written by: Jennifer Hersko Subscribe to this Author's RSS feed

Applies to:  SharePoint 2010 Libraries and Lists Document libraries are a storage area for documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, web pages, etc.), and lists are custom tables for storing data. Examples of lists are Tasks, Announcements, Calendars and Links. The Ribbon and Edit Menu Users manipulate data in lists and libraries by accessing their Ribbons and [...]