SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search has the built-in ability to OCR and index the content of your scanned tiff images during a crawl (whether they are are stored in SharePoint or not). This is a very powerful feature, yet a bit mysterious to configure as the configuration steps have changed since the 2010 version. I’ll outline… Read More »
Have you ever wondered what that historical marker says that you just passed while driving down the road? Well, there’s an app for that, if you live in Texas. Please cut to the chase and give me the links WP7 Fanboys - Open in the WP7 Marketplace iPhone/iPad Fanboys - Open in the App Store… Read More »
After having great success consuming a WCF Web service using MonoTouch as I mentioned in the previous post, I next set off to consume an OData feed thinking this would be just as easy. And sure enough, it was just as easy, until I graduated my wonderful little app from the iPhone Simulator to my… Read More »
I was recently presented with an opportunity to write a mobile application for a local Dallas homeless ministry. Learning about what the ministry leader envisioned for the app as well as already owning a Mac and an iPhone led me down the iOS development path. After reading a little about Objective-C and memory management, I… Read More »
Today I attempted to deploy a BDC model to my client’s SharePoint farm. I used the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project template and the Business Data Catalog Model item template to create the model, and I had no issues using the convenient Deploy command from within Visual Studio to deploy the model and make use… Read More »
Stumbling here because you are having trouble updating a service reference in your Windows Phone 7 application? Are you getting a warning that reads something like this? Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.DataContractSerializerMessageContractImporter Error: Could not load type ‘System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSet’ from assembly ‘System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=2.0.5.0,… Read More »
I’ve recently adopted MVVM Light as my MVVM framework of choice for both Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. Why use frameworks like MVVM Light? First and foremost, to achieve clear separation of concerns between the application UI and the backing data. While this goal seems fairly elementary, pulling this off in practice can be… Read More »
SharePoint 2010’s Secure Store Service provides a way to map credentials and delegate access to remote resources. You may already be familiar with the MOSS 2007 Single Sign-on Shared Service, which was the former equivalent. The Secure Store Service integrates seemlessly with Business Connectivity Services (BCS), but it also features an API that can be… Read More »
To build a wildcard-enabled Linq query for Entity Framework, you have several methods available to use from the System.String class that Entity Framework supports and transforms into SQL: Contains(string value) StartsWith(string value) EndsWith(string value) A simple query example might be: var q = (from c in db.Customers where c.CompanyName.Contains(name) select c) .ToList(); The above example… Read More »
In this post I am going to walk through writing and consuming JSON services using ASP.Net, WCF, and jQuery to request the stock price for a company. Visual Studio 2010 Web Application Project Template Additions jQuery Intellisense – let Visual Studio write your jQuery for you AJAX-enabled WCF Service – item template that auto-generates the… Read More »