April, 2012

Back to Canada again …My next session will cover the BI aspects of SharePoint 2010, including the new features provided by SQL Server 2012 Blog Post by: sergeluca

Blog Post by: sergeluca

Next week I’ll be presenting a session in Belgium on the integration between SharePoint, SharePoint Online (Office 365) and Windows Azure in Belgium. Click on this picture to get more information : It will be fun to meet Belgian but also many  European speakers… There will be 6 tracks: - 1 Power user and decision [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

The slides (in French) of my  sessions can be downloaded here : Session 1   The second session was presented with Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) Session 2: Blog Post by: sergeluca

Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery .  It is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin , and is really comprehensive.  Details of the course outline can be found here . Free 1-Month Subscription to the Course Pluralsight is offering a special promotion that allows you to get a free 1-month subscription to watch the above course as many time as you want at no cost.  There is no obligation to buy anything...

I'm excited to share news about a great new cloud capability we are announcing today - Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. It also integrates and exposes...

Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web : Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms : Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through building an application...

This coming Monday (April 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic or question is fair game. You can learn more and register to attend the online event...

I run across the following blog post yesterday from Jean Pierre Riehl (French SQL Server MVP). In his post, Jean Pierre illustrates how to run PowerView (provided with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services) without SharePoint; basically the idea is to copy the PVrendering.dll  (the PowerView dll) from a SharePoint installation into a folder named SandBoRX [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

In 2 weeks, I’ll present (like last year) 2 SharePoint sessions @SharePoint Summit in Quebec (and in May in Toronto). Session 1 : Integration SharePoint Online (Office 365), SharePoint On Premise and Azure (for Devs) Session 2 : SharePoint 2010 BI : PerformancePoint Services and PowerView More details here. Blog Post by: sergeluca