Silverlight – Joel's SharePoint Architecture Blog

Chart Zoom and Pan Extension for the Silverlight 4 Toolkit

February 13, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

Geoff Webber-Cross, one of my most excellent Silverlight and SharePoint alumni, has just started a blog and published a neat extension to the Silverlight 4 Toolkit to implement chart zooming and panning.

The Silverlight 4 Toolkit comes with a chart control of its own. There’s a demo that shows how to pan and scroll the chart control, but the axes scroll with your chart, which is usually not what you want.

Geoff’s example shows how to overcome this and also gives you zooming into the bargain.

Rich Internet Application Awesomeness at the Silverlight Firestarter 2010

February 6, 2011 by Joel Jeffery

I love Silverlight. There. I’ve said it. I think it’s a fantastic opportunity for developers to write beautiful, client-side, apps using the tools they know and love – Visual Studio 2010. We can also use the gorgeous Expression suite (especially Expression Blend) to design and author rich, interactive applications.

Silverlight also plays delightfully well with SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 has the Silverlight Client Object Model – a rich API that allows developers to work with SharePoint 2010 objects in batches, remotely.

The two together make a very good partnership.

In this video Scott Guthrie talks about the developer community – did you know that there are over 1 million developers who use Silverlight today? There are also hundreds of recognised user groups around the world. Quite an impressive boast for such a new development platform.

Hang on. It *feels* new, but it’s not *that* new is it? Silverlight is now a mature platform that has been around in one guise or another since late 2006. It’s been a .NET platform since version 1.1/2.0 in 2007, and Microsoft have just unveiled version 5.0.

Silverlight has fast become the application platform of choice for the Web and Enterprises alike. The video shows what SAP have managed to do using Silverlight as a browser-based front-end for visualising data in a rich and impressively interactive way. Another familiar app Scott demos is the Silverlight Facebook app by Telerik, which is available at http://facebook.telerik.com.

Silverlight is also the language of choice for Windows Phone 7 development. There are now more than 3000 Windows Phone 7 applications available for download or purchase on the Microsoft Office Marketplace. I have an iPhone and an Android device, and I’m jealous.

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#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

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#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

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#spthingaday 056 - How-To. Customise Modern Edit and Display Forms. #SharePointOnline, #Office365, #HowTo, #PowerUser, #PowerApps.. If you've ever wanted to customise the Display and Edit forms in a Modern Library in SharePoint Online, you now have the ability to do just that.

You don't even need to be a developer.
Showing or hiding form fields is now a very straightforward matter.

Go to the List or Library of your choice. In the Toolbar - where the Ribbon used to be - select PowerApps, and then "Customize forms." This will load the PowerApps browser tool, and build a custom form for you.

The first thing it asks is whether you would like to show/hide or reorder fields.

Selecting yes will give you a list of available fields for you to show or hide or reorder.

Once you're done, hit Save and then Publish.

When PowerApps is ready, you can go back to your List or Library and try it out.

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#spthingaday 056 - How-To. Customise Modern Edit and Display Forms. #SharePointOnline, #Office365, #HowTo, #PowerUser, #PowerApps.. If you've ever wanted to customise the Display and Edit forms in a Modern Library in SharePoint Online, you now have the ability to do just that.

You don't even need to be a developer.
Showing or hiding form fields is now a very straightforward matter.

Go to the List or Library of your choice. In the Toolbar - where the Ribbon used to be - select PowerApps, and then "Customize forms." This will load the PowerApps browser tool, and build a custom form for you.

The first thing it asks is whether you would like to show/hide or reorder fields.

Selecting yes will give you a list of available fields for you to show or hide or reorder.

Once you're done, hit Save and then Publish.

When PowerApps is ready, you can go back to your List or Library and try it out.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

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#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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