Your LinkedIn Contacts are now in Linked In Outlook!

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Ed Alexander

Microsoft has quietly released a new beta version of the “Outlook Social Connector”. This new outlook add-in provides connectivity with Linked-In contacts and status and is exposed through everyday tasks like email. Now making a connection on Linked-In is as easy as clicking “add to Linked-In” from an email from the contact. I can’t tell you how big a help this is for general business relationship building. EAC recommends installing the Beta in Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 Beta now (tested in 2010 with no issues to date).
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Silverlight UI: Programming Exercise

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Ed Alexander

There is a lot of talk on the web regarding Silverlight as a replacement for InfoPath in SharePoint implementations. In order to investigate the relative ease of implementation this simple Sudoku application was created in Silverlight 3 using Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010. Four days were required with the bulk of that time consumed in a learning curve for XAML and the new development suite. Judging from the time required to generate the application EAC is now firmly in the camp that Silverlight will (should be) the most common implementation for SharePoint web parts in the future. No forms server required and Cloud (BPOS) friendly.

Note that the application can be installed locally through the context menu. EAC will be exploiting this feature in a new Expense Report application for SharePoint Online.

Play Stay Sharp Suduko

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SharePoint Migrator v1.0 Released

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Ed Alexander

SharePoint Migrator v1.0 allows users to create Excel based lists of metadata and file references for loading directly into existing SharePoint lists.  Migrator is designed to utilize existing SharePoint web services (_vti_bin/lists.asmx) to transport data and files allowing Migrator to function as a load tool for any SharePoint instance including SharePoint online and other cloud based SharePoint services.

The new tool can be used with either SharePoint 2007 or 2010 Beta.

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