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SharePoint 2013 Office web App Server functionality

Hi Folks, SharePoint has capabilities to open and edit office files in browser without Office installed on client machine.It's one of the brilliant feature of SharePoint and Office web app server.To incorporate this feature with your web application you need to follow some easy steps and configure a dedicated office web app server and point your SharePoint farm to that office web app server so that your SharePoint farm can use OWA(Office web app) server to provide functionality to view and edit office files in browser.  Please note that you cannot make your SharePoint server in role of Office web app server so you need to built a dedicated and separate machine to install office web app.  Also one OWA server can connect to multiple SharePoint farm to provide OWA functionality.  In this blog I am trying to cover below few points:  1.How to configure OWA server  2.How to Point your SharePoint farm to OWA server  3.How to point multiple SharePoint fa...

LINQ in MOSS 2010

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In Moss 2010 we can use LINQ syntax for getting items from list instead of using traditional method using spquery. for that we have to follow some steps: step 1:First we have to run some command for generate some entity classes which Visual Studio 2010 can use to get IntelliSense, and allows for LINQ-based queries to be performed on our sharepoint lists. There is one tool in 14\bin folder folder named SPMetal.exe open CMD run this command SPMetal.exe /web:http://mycustomsite /code:C:\CustomEntityFile.cs TO be continued.........

LINQ: .NET Language-Integrated Query

With .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft released Language Integrated Query called LINQ. LINQ enables developers to query data sources using a query like syntax with both C# and VB.NET. These data sources can be collections, SQL Server databases, XML, DataSets etc. The .NET framework 3.5 introduces us to the following query keywords; from / in - Specifies the data source where - Conditional boolean expression (e.g. i == 0) orderby (ascending/descending) - Sorts the results into ascending or descending order select - Adds the result to the return type group / by - Groups the results based on a given key There are more keywords that provide additional functionality for more details please go through this msdn link LINQ

Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2009/12/02/adding-and-deploying-solutions-with-powershell-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

How to Build and Deploy a Web Part in MOSS 2010

When i was created my first MOSS 2010 solution i have taken the help of my best online friend Google ;).I found a very good blog on this topic so i m not going to write the steps .Please go through this link http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/02/15/intro-to-sharepoint-2010-development-how-to-build-and-deploy-a-web-part.aspx If find any difficulty please make comment.

Change Deployment type & Debug site URL for sandbox & Farm solution in MOSS 2010

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When i created first time MOSS 2010 solutions (sandbox as well as farm) than one very first thing strikes me that is how to change the type of solution like for example sandboxed to farm or vice versa and how to change the debugging site path. so we can change these by property window. There is two properties there one is sandboxed solution(True/false) & another one is site url.please see screenshot.;)

How to deploy sandbox solution from one environment to other

Deploying sandbox solution from one sitecollection to other is a simple process.Assuming you created a sandbox solution for your Dev environment.& now you want to deploy it on other sitecollection. Save wsp file of solution from your dev sitecollection solution gallary which u can find inside sitesettings Now open your solution gallary of prod sitecollection & upload wsp there. Do not forget to activate that. Once u activated that solution go on your page and add webparts. ;)