Now a days I'm exploring the Windows Mobile , so some interesting work which i'm doing is related to Direct Push. In this blog post I will be discussing about the ways to implement Direct Push......

Using SMS (this was used when there were no real direct push available) 

The triggers are sent from the server as SMTP Message to the SMTP front end at the mobile Operator and they send SMS messages to the device. So it keeps device Always Up To Date notification feature (AUTD).

Limitations

1.    SMTP to SMS conversion latency.

2.    Reliability.

Using Direct Push

In Direct Push client opens the HTTP connection with the server and keeps it alive for a X amount of time known as heartbeat interval. The server looks for the changes till the heartbeat interval elapses and sends notifications about new items over this connection.

How Direct Push works

Device issues a PING command and sends it as a part of the POST request from the device. EAS server receives a PING command and subscribes to notifications for the folders using SUBSCRIBE command for DAV subscriptions.  EAS checks for changes and if a notification arrives within the heartbeat interval it notifies changes to the client to sync by issuing a response to the PING command with a Status of 2. If there are no changes within the heartbeat interval, the EAS server waits for the notifications from the mailbox server. After the heartbeat interval elapses, the server uses UNSUBSCRIBE command to delete the DAV subscription and then it will return a response to PING command with a status of 1 indicating no changes.

Windows Communication Foundation (Compact Edition) and the story of the Lunch Launcher

Many of us create installers for installing websites but most of the time we don't include the permission settings for the Website and rely on the users to do the rest   i.e. go in the IIS administrator and set the required permission on that…

I believe if you do the same stuff with writing the custom action class, it will save hell lot of problem… so I’m including one of the custom action class which sets the required ACLs for the website

U can do lot many things starting from creating your App-pool to whatever you can think of doing with IIS administrator… so make sure that next time if you create MSI include the most of the stuff you can…

IISHelperUtility.cs

"Debugger.Break"   !!! and you are ready to go... 

Shortcut Keys

Association

F8/Shift-F8

Navigate compilation errors

Ctrl-D

Move to mini-buffer

Ctrl-Shift-G in mini-buffer or
Ctrl-O in mini-buffer

Open file name in mini-buffer (Ctrl-O seems to open stuff Ctrl-Shift-G does not)

"> command" in mini-buffer

Execute command

Ctrl+/

Move to mini-buffer, typing the leading > for you

Ctrl-Alt-A

Open the command window

Ctrl-PageUp in HTML Design View

Open source view

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Build

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Class View

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Complete the symbol you're currently typing or give you a choice of possibilities

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}

Reformat scope being closed

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Ctrl-L or Shift-Del or
Ctrl-X w/ no selection

Delete entire line

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Jumps to next *whatever*, depending on what's active, e.g. next find result, next task, next error, etc.

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Jumps to last/next place you worked

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Collapse everything in the current file

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F12

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Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow

Scroll window up/down without moving the cursor away from the current line

Shift+Alt+Arrows
(Alt+Mouse works, too)

Column selection (include of line selection)

Links 

MSDN Article for breaking changes

Mehran Nikoo's blog 

so in this article i'm going to discuss about the difference between the ASP.NET 2.0 and the Ajax validation controls.  

The difference between the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions Validation and the ASP.NET 2.0 Validation controls is that the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions validation registers expando attributes and script compatible with partial page rendering by using the script registration methods of the ScriptManager control.

When using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions validators the control to validate and the validator should be inside the same UpdatePanel control.

Validators outside of UpdatePanel controls should use the script registration methods of the ClientScriptManager control.

Examples

This example uses two RequiredFieldValidator controls to validate user input. Error messages are displayed in a ValidationSummary control.

CS

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>Validation Summary Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" />
    <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
    <table cellpadding="10">
      <tr>
         <td>
    <table style="background-color:#eeeeee; padding:10">

               <tr>
                  <td colspan="3">
                     <b>Credit Card Information</b>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td align="right">
                     Card Type:
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <asp:RadioButtonList id="RadioButtonList1" 
                          RepeatLayout="Flow"
                          runat="server">

                        <asp:ListItem>MasterCard</asp:ListItem>
                        <asp:ListItem>Visa</asp:ListItem>

                     </asp:RadioButtonList>
                  </td>
                  <td align="center" rowspan="1">
                    <asp:RequiredFieldValidator
                          id="RequiredFieldValidator1"
                          ControlToValidate="RadioButtonList1"
                          ErrorMessage="Card Type."
                          Display="Static"
                          InitialValue="" 
                          Width="100%" 
                          Text="*"
                          runat="server"/>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td align="right">
                     Card Number:
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <asp:TextBox id="TextBox1" 
                          runat="server" />
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <asp:RequiredFieldValidator
                          id="RequiredFieldValidator2"
                          ControlToValidate="TextBox1" 
                          ErrorMessage="Card Number. "
                          Display="Static"
                          Width="100%"
                          Text="*" 
                          runat="server"/>
                  </td>
               </tr>

               <tr>
                  <td></td>
                  <td>
                     <asp:Button id="Button1" 
                          Text="Validate" 
                          runat="server" />
                  </td>
                  <td></td>
               </tr>
            </table>
         </td>
         <td valign="top">
            <table cellpadding="20">
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <asp:ValidationSummary id="valSum" 
                          DisplayMode="BulletList"
                          EnableClientScript="true"
                          HeaderText="You must enter a value in the following fields:"
                          runat="server"/>
                  </td>
               </tr>
            </table>
         </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    </ContentTemplate>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Please refer the attach migration guide..

Migration Guide -ATLAS to Beta2.doc

Let’s begin with the important step before we jump to talk about the “Pivot Report”

Point 1. You need to Install SharePoint J

Point 2. Install Office 2003 and Office Web Parts.

After you have installed the Office Web Parts you should be able to follow these steps:

1.     Import data from an Excel spreadsheet to your SharePoint team Web site. Those who not aware of how to import data from excel to SharePoint list refer Microsoft Office Assistance site

2.     Open ad Web Part page and add the Office PivotChart component from the Virtual Server Gallery

3.     Click on the "Connect to an external data source" link in the web part.

4.     Add a new data connection & select Data retrieval services

5.     Select Windows SharePoint Services lists

6.     Type in the URL to your site and then select the list you wish to retrieve data from.

7.     Select the columns you with to retrieve

8.     This next step is most important. It is selecting the location to store the data connection information. This must be a location that is accessible to users who will view the web part. A logical location for this on a SharePoint site is a document library.

9.     Finish the wizard and View the result.

If you don’t see any data in pivot table then follow the above steps till you succeed……J

But my problem was to bind the object (value collection of the dictionary)as datasource and its property to the dropdown ‘DataValueField’ and ‘DataTextField’.

The beauty of Generic dictionary object is that it can return you the value collection by using ‘Values’ property of the dictionary.

So here is the example.

<asp:DropDownList

ID="ddlCustomer"

runat="server"

DataSource='<%#Customers.Values%>'

      DataTextField="Name"

DataValueField="ID">

</asp:DropDownList>