Friday, May 27, 2005
Nick reports about our
CMS.RAPID v1.1 preview to partners highlighting the key features of:
- SharePoint integration ... encompassing SPARK plus also provides some extra RAPID controls and SharePoint Web parts
- Membership (user profiling, role based security) ... using an ASP1.1 back port of Whidbey Membership
From Daniel Mcpherson is a useful list of
RSS and SharePoint resources.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
This week, some UK partners and I saw a preview of
Skelta Workflow for MCMS and it looks like they are making a great job of integrating the solution into the authoring environment.
As I blogged earlier this year, the plan is to make available a Lite version that will be free of charge ... lookout for the launch at TechEd.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
From
Mart ...
Nice article by Alex about how to create a Microsoft Self Installer (MSI) file to deploy webparts:
Telerik is pleased to announce the release of r.a.d.controls MCMS Edition Q2 2005 - the special bundle of ASP.NET components tailored for tight integration with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. The new volume introduces three major updates, which aim to significantly enhance the UI richness of MCMS-based application. In Q2 professionals will find the long-awaited r.a.d.editor MCMS Premium Edition v5.0 (based on its newest
ASP.NET counterpart) as well as r.a.d.menu MCMS Edition v3.2 and r.a.d.tabstrip MCMS Edition v2.0.
The new major release of the leading WYSIWYG editor, telerik r.a.d.editor, presents a rich set of features, which bring browser-based content authoring almost to the level of convenience and familiarity of desktop word processors, like Microsoft Word. Among the novelties are: multilevel Undo/Redo with action trails, dockable and floating toolbars, multiple editors with a single toolbar, custom context menus, system modules, new features for pasting from Word, client-side API, and much more.
r.a.d.menu has been greatly improved as well to deliver full keyboard support - an important accessibility requirement. End-users can now utilize shortcuts, access-keys, and arrow-key navigation. Also new is the design-time support, screen-boundaries detection, client-side API, etc.
Equally interesting are the improvements in the new version 2.0 of the r.a.d.tabstrip component. The tab content area is now logically separated from the labels and can be placed anywhere on the page. Developers can now easily build hierarchical tab structures and take advantage of the other enhancements like expand effects, full keyboard support, multi-language support, etc.
For full product descriptions and feature lists, please visit
http://www.mcmscontrols.com/ or try the on-line examples at
http://www.mcmscontrols.com/demo1. To request a fully functional free trial, please logon your
http://www.mcmscontrols.com/ account and go to "Trial" r.a.d.controls
MCMSControls are available with 4 different licenses:-
- Server (unlimited CPUs, unlimited developers)
- Server Subscription (same as above plus free version updates for 1 year)
- Enterprise Subscription (unlimited servers, free version updates for 1 year)
- Enterprise Subscription and Source Code (same as above plus full source code)
For detailed licensing information, please visit
http://www.mcmscontrols.com/purchaseThe free Lite version of r.a.d.editor MCMS can be downloaded at
http://www.mcmscontrols.com/Default.aspx?PageId=2366
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Need to improve your form-design skills or expanding your general knowledge of InfoPath?
The
Resources for learning InfoPath article lists Help files, Web sites, and other resources that can help you accomplish these goals.
Channel 9 just published a video on MSN's Virtual Earth ... a layered, geo-mapping service featuring aerial photographs (taken over cities at a 45-degree angle) and satellite images that is promised for later this year.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 Release 2.
Enterprise customers now have the ability to offer language support for U.S. Spanish and Canadian French at no additional cost. MSS2004 R2 also offers the ability to deploy speech server in an all-in-one server configuration giving customers greater flexibility when choosing their deployment option.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Whitepaper
Digital Work Style: The New World of Work outlines key trends taking place in the changing working place, important technologies that will influence how we work, and how Microsoft will play a leadership role in driving the next wave of productivity in information work.
Specifically, five key focus areas of Office 12 are outlined, including individual impact, collaboration, knowledge discovery and insight, enterprise content lifecycle, and information solutions & IT fundamentals.
From Major Nelson ...
Now that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 specifications have been announced, it is possible to do a real world performance comparison of the two systems.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Today is the the first disclosure milestone for the next wave of Microsoft Office System products which will be delivered in the second half of 2006 and available under a beta program later this year.
This started with Bill Gates delivering a
keynote at the Ninth Annual Microsoft CEO Summit which demonstrated that Microsoft has a unique understanding of the workplace of today and tomorrow, and is making the right investments to lead organisations into the future.
This was followed up by an
executive email from Bill to explain the vision for the New World of Work.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
RAPID Police is a Police sector portal solution built by
ArtemisCorp and
Diagonal Solutions, and powered by CMS.RAPID.
Basic features:
- A demo public-facing site
- Welsh/English multilingual site
- Branded as a make-believe police organisation
- Including police-centric eforms running on AchieveForms Lite (report a crime, FOI request)
- Police-style content
More info from
Nick
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
From
Eli Robillard's World of Blog ...
It's a common scenario to want to use the great Search and Index engines from SharePoint Portal server in other .NET applications, or to customise results for a particular purpose. Some of these are pretty hard to find, so I thought I'd organize them in one place.
More
Increasingly more applications share both functionality and data across boundaries to be consumed by other applications; these boundaries include platform, devices, organisations and geographies. The sharing across and within applications is not simply a nice to have it is gradually becoming a mandatory requirement that reduces an organisations cost and increases agility to react to both external and internal influences.
At this Architect Forum we will discuss strategies to achieve success when connecting applications across these boundaries, the increasing support and wide adoption across the industry, and finally how the Microsoft platform will support this process. These sessions will be lead by speakers from Microsoft, our customers and the industry. Join us for this free one-day event and hear from Microsoft, customer and industry speakers, take the opportunity to network with your peers and participate in a Q&A panel session.
Obtain more details and
register .
Monday, May 16, 2005
Chance to learn a bit more about browser helper objects ... from Nikhilk is
ASP.NET Development Helper a browser extension to provide an indication of debug mode within the browser.
The final version of the MSN Search Toolbar has been released ... it includes free enhancements for Windows 2000 and Windows XP customers, providing a dramatically upgraded desktop search experience. These new innovations for Windows customers will make it easier than ever to find and retrieve documents, e-mail, images, video and more on their Windows-based personal computers.
download
Over the next few days - Passport enabled sites will switch to using Passport v3.0
This release coincides with a change of terminology / branding as your .NET Passport will become your Microsoft Passport Network credentials.
Some great webcasts from TechNet ...
showtime
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Interwoven, provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions for business, announced at the Interwoven GearUp '05 conference that Interwoven has become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and will deliver tightly integrated end-to-end ECM solutions for the information worker.
Interwoven, building on Microsoft technologies, will enable information workers-starting with professional services firms including legal, accounting, management consulting, corporate legal departments, and IT consulting-to manage the entire content lifecycle through the tight integration of the Interwoven WorkSite Collaborative Document Management, E-Mail Management, and RecordsManager solutions with the Microsoft platform including Office and Windows.
More
Friday, May 13, 2005
MSN announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of MessageCast Inc., a leading provider of automated alerting and messaging technology that currently supports the MSN Alerts service
More
Microsoft have taken the wraps off the much-anticipated XBOX 360, ending months of intense speculation and satiating consumers worldwide.
With more than one teraflop of system-floating point performance, a three-core PowerPC-based CPU for the most-advanced artificial intelligence and physics processing, a custom ATI graphics processor, and more than 512 MB of memory for the ultimate in visual fidelity.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
At Microsoft annual mobile and embedded developers conference, Bill Gates announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Mobile 5.0.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Trinity Expert Systems has today announced a strategic partnership with Artemis Corporation to deliver CMS.RAPID solutions to clients across the UK.
MoreWe are in an advance stage of packaging a Trinity / Artemis portal solution for the Legal marketplace and this will be powered by CMS.RAPID and Microsoft portal technologies ... and plans are still proceeding to add
Trinitys workflow solution to CMS.RAPID .
Make Sense of Your Web Feedback using SQL Server 2005 from
MSDN Magazine June 2005This article discusses:
- How to automate classification of text-based data
- How to use SQL Server 2005 components to perform manual and automatic text classification
- Performing term extraction and data preparation
- Mining model development and refinement
The BBC has opened up its content more so that people can use news stories and headlines on their own sites via RSS.
More
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Microsoft today unveiled a private beta release of a newly developed server-based business performance management application. Codenamed Maestro, the business intelligence software, which forms part of Microsoft Office, aims to help organisations perform deep analysis by allowing them to build, manage and use scorecards and key performance indicators.
For the fourth time in three months, major security flaws in the Firefox Web browser have pushed volunteers at the Mozilla Foundation into damage-control mode.
Firefox users are urged to disable JavaScript immediately ... which makes it a rather ineffective browser.
It does highlight that security is an industry-wide problem and not limited to any one vendor or popular target.
Monday, May 09, 2005
Recommended by
Stefan on the newsgroups for Master pages pre-Whidbey in CMS2002 ...
- Using UserControls as templates for web pages ... Use this class instead of the System.Web.UI.Page class to use a custom control as a template for the pages of your site. The class works basically by moving the controls from the custom control to the page and the controls from the page to a container control in the custom control.
As an alternative, base templates are core functionality in
CMS.RAPID.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 trial software is now
available to download for evaluation in both x64 and x86 versions.
Resources:
Saturday, May 07, 2005
This
overview document provides information about Active Directory Federation Services which I can see being really useful for SharePoint Extranet scenarios.
Federated identity management is a standards-based technology and information technology process that enables distributed identification, authentication, and authorization across organizational and platform boundaries. Federated systems need to interoperate across organizational boundaries and connect processes utilizing different technologies, identity storage, security approaches, and programming models.
Within a federated system, an organization needs a standardized and secure way of expressing not only the services it makes available to trusted partners and customers but also the policies by which it runs its business, such as which other organizations and users it trusts, what types of credentials and requests it accepts, and its privacy policies.
The Active Directory Federation Services solution in Windows Server 2003 R2 helps administrators address these challenges by enabling organizations to securely share a user's identity information.
Download
Service Pack 4, the latest and most comprehensive update to SQL Server 2000
Friday, May 06, 2005
Interesting read on WiMAX ...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1344... if they get WiMax adopted into Centrino chips next year, it wont be long before WiMax will threaten the 3G technologies that are just starting to take off.
From
Nick ...
The recorded version of the CMS.RAPID developer webcast given earlier this week is now available ...
Webcast :
Agenda .
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
NetUnity Software have announced the latest release of its product for developing WSRP compliant portal-based business solutions using the Microsoft .NET Framework. The latest release adds extensive support for ASP.NET. With this release of the framework, developers can implement WSRP portlets using any number of ASP.NET pages including support for the form designer, postbacks, view state and event handling. Navigate or redirect between an unlimited number of ASP.NET pages within a portlet or re-use the same page in multiple portlets for extremely rich portlet content and interactions.
Press Release
Microsoft TechEd 2005 Europe offers you 12 targeted tracks focusing on developer and infrastructure content (split 50:50) .
Find out about the latest information on Microsoft technologies and tools, whilst networking with industry leaders. Take part in four days of in-depth technical training and evaluation on current and soon-to-be released technologies.
Registration
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Video Case Study of London Borough of Newham who are implementing a web-based Local Authority Portal, a strategic facility to drive long-term efficiencies and service enhancements for the borough and its residents. Developed by
Artemis using the
Microsoft Local Authority Portal Solution (powered by CMS.RAPID), the Portal has been designed as a repeatable solution to help authorities put citizen information and services online, and to enable council departments and fellow agencies to work better together and to deliver for joined up services.
From
eGovTV.
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is the next version of MSDE 2000. It is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server Express makes it easy to develop data driven applications that are rich in capability, secure in storage, and fast to deploy.
Downloads:
Monday, May 02, 2005
CMS.RAPID 1.1 presented to partners
