Microsoft Open Doors 2010 - Saudi Arabia


Join us at the Microsoft Open Door 2010 event in Saudi Arabia, which will kick off in Riyadh on 2nd November with a keynote address by Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer. Attend this exciting event and learn about the transition to Cloud Computing and the latest information on Microsoft’s technology roadmap. Open Door is an opportunity to advance your business and technical skills, and network with many IT professionals.Visit to register* and for more information on the event.Microsoft Saudi Arabia .....Click here for More...


Microsoft Learning Snacks


Microsoft Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts.

Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.

Click given below

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/format-learning-snacks.aspx



Language Offerings for SharePoint 2010 Products

Microsoft announced that they shipped 19 languages, including English, Japanese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, Hindi, Danish, Thai, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch and Italian with 21 others shipping between now and September 2010.
Note: Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010 uses the language infrastructure of SharePoint Server 2010, so there is no separate language pack or localized version for it.
For more information visit SharePoint official blog Click here

Customization not supported in Import/Export commands SharePoint

In Import/Export commands SharePoint Customization like events attached on lists, themes etc not supported..Reason->these stuff are file based not in database….so, file based never migrate :)

SharePoint Webpart LifeCycle

OnInit: Define controls that will be involved with WebPart

CreateChildControls: Control properties and methods previously declared.

OnPreRender: Control's value kept by ViewState (for example Item value set up by the user to DropDownList nation), is available. For this reason, it's normal to begin business procedure from here, and in our case we are going to load values for the second dropdown list (Town DropDownList) with the proper data:

Render: For HTML rendering WebPart

SharePoint Templates ID

Given blow table will help you to see the Template ID for SharePoint.

Template Name Description
GLOBAL#0 Global template
STS#0 Team Site
STS#1 Blank Site
STS#2 Document Workspace
MPS#0 Basic Meeting Workspace
MPS#1 Blank Meeting Workspace
MPS#2 Decision Meeting Workspace
MPS#3 Social Meeting Workspace
MPS#4 Multipage Meeting Workspace
CENTRALADMIN#0 Central Admin Site
WIKI#0 Wiki Site
BLOG#0 Blog
BDR#0 Document Center
OFFILE#0 Records Center
OFFILE#1 Records Center
OSRV#0 Shared Services Administration Site
SPS#0 SharePoint Portal Server Site
SPSPERS#0 SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space
SPSMSITE#0 Personalization Site
SPSTOC#0 Contents area Template
SPSTOPIC#0 Topic area template
SPSNEWS#0 News Site
CMSPUBLISHING#0 Publishing Site
BLANKINTERNET#0 Publishing Site
BLANKINTERNET#1 Press Releases Site
BLANKINTERNET#2 Publishing Site with Workflow
SPSNHOME#0 News Site
SPSSITES#0 Site Directory
SPSCOMMU#0 Community area template
SPSREPORTCENTER#0 Report Center
SPSPORTAL#0 Collaboration Portal
SRCHCEN#0 Search Center with Tabs
PROFILES#0 Profiles
BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 Publishing Portal
SPSMSITEHOST#0 My Site Host
SRCHCENTERLITE#0 Search Center
SRCHCENTERLITE#1 Search Center

SharePoint Workspace 2010 & the Offline Experience

SharePoint Explaination in Plain English

SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch [May 12th, 2010]

Countdown has been started........SharePoint 2010 ready to launch officially....see the given below statement

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Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.

It’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to listen to Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch. You can register for the event....Click here to see details..