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Starting Windows Phone Development: Lesson 4 of n – Communicating with Services and Databinding
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3 months ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Before we move on, you need to have a basic understanding of event handling and navigation. I went through this in Lesson 1 and Lesson 3 . Please finish it first before moving on. You can always find the lesson source code attached at the end of the blog...
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Starting Windows Phone Development: Lesson 3 of n – Navigation between Pages and passing Parameters
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5 months ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Before we move on, you need to have a basic understanding of event handling. I went through this in Lesson 1 . Please finish it first before moving on. You can always find the lesson source code attached at the end of the blog post. As we explained...
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Starting Windows Phone Development: Lesson 2 of n - Access to Application Isolated Local Storage
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5 months ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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I hope you will find this lesson more interesting as most developers think about phone storage available on devices for their applications and how they can utilize it. Each application will have its own isolated local storage. It is independent from the...
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Starting Windows Phone Development: Lesson 1 of n – Application Layout and Events Handling
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5 months ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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It often surprises me how much of content is available to develop for Windows Phone, if you are looking for baby steps this series of lessons is defiantly not for you. However, if you are developer, regardless of background or platform and looking quickly...
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Configure Event Viewer for BizTalk Server Errors
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10 months ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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It can be sometimes a drag to scroll over the Event Viewer looking for specific events, it gets even worse if you have a busy server with lots of applications running and being accessed through remote desktop! Yeah I know the feeling exactly..! ...
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Is IE10 crashing your proxy services?
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Well it might if you are using a bad proxy script Let’s assume that you use some sort of browser detection script, IE10’s Agent String might cause your script to act weird and may crash. However, if you block IE10 at the proxy and force...
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Building the Metro Flash Cards App
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Flash Cards are an awesome way for learning a new language, so I went on and wrote my own simple Metro Flash Cards. It's not complete but just exactly what I needed. The source code is available on CodePlex here . I might consider adding support for pictures...
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SharePoint 2010 Term Store is Displaying SIDs instead of Display Names under the Managed Metadata Service
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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One of our customers got back to me about SIDs being displayed instead of Display Names in the Term Store when looking up settings for a Term Set. The behavior is intact and you're getting the expected results. However, It would be hard to maintain! To...
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Random Word Sequence Password Strength…!
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Cross-Boundary Collaboration Training
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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One of the best training workshops I ever attended This project may look easy to you but we tackled this like a real project and the exercise was super amazing..!
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I have no clue what ATC was thinking?
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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B737-800 OMDB approach with an A321 ahead of me!
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An Alternative Archives Web Part to Solve the Pre-dated Posts Provisioning in the OOTB Blog Site Archives Web Part
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over 1 year ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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The OOB SharePoint 2010 site templates are very useful in different scenarios. The guys at Microsoft were very generous to spare some time and build a site template for blogs. After provisioning the site, I was so happy with it! but then stumbled on the...
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Using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell to Create Web Applications and Site Collections
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over 2 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Power Shell is one outstanding tool for managing and configuring SharePoint 2010 without using the web GUI. A good use of Power Shell is creating CMDLets to automate the process of provisioning sites and site collections. In today’s walkthrough we will...
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Metro Style Toggle for Windows 8 Developer Preview
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over 2 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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UPDATE – Classic Start Menu was removed completely from Windows 8 Consumer Preview. This application will not work any more. Download link was removed. I have been running Windows 8 Developer Preview for a while now. Since my laptop does not support touch...
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SharePoint Lists Conditional Formatting using SharePoint Designer 2010
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over 2 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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I was asked on different occasions if SharePoint supports conditional formatting on Lists. The answer was yes It can be done using SharePoint Designer. Back in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) we had to convert the List View Web Part to a XSL Data View to be able...
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OWSTimer EndPoint Exception Errors After SP 2010 SP1 Installation?
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over 2 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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I started getting the OWSTimer exception errors after installing SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1. Exception An unhandled exception ('System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException') occurred in OWSTIMER.EXE [6116]. Solution To resolve the exception...
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Guess Who Owns a UFO?
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over 3 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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When you finish the Secret Shuttle mission landing in Area 51 and taxi the aircraft to the parking, you will find the UFO parked to your right..!
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Why is Samer Chidiac still single?
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over 3 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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I have a presentation coming soon and since I'm always eager to playing with new stuff, I went over the web and put my hands on the new Office 2010 beta and started goofing around interesting articles about PowerPoint 2010. Luckily I started with my friends...
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Building Arabic SharePoint Site Collections
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over 4 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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Back in previous versions of SharePoint (e.g. 2003 release) we had to have a full installation of SharePoint for a specific language, one language per installation, which meant that if we install an Arabic version of SharePoint on a specific server then...
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Playing with SharePoint Custom Lists Using SPList Class (SharePoint Object Model)
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over 4 years ago
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Bandar Alsharfi
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As a developer you can access SharePoint content using either Microsoft.SharePoint.dll (SharePoint Object Model) or web services. In this post I will be discussing the access using the object model and in the next coming posts I will explain it using...
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