This post discusses about SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 developer tools in Visual Studio 2012 which helps you to build the application more easily and efficiently. SharePoint 2013 allows you to develop the apps, What is Apps in SharePoint 2013? Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces which gives the functionality that extends the SharePoint site. You have the developer tools to build...
Visual Studio 2012 IDE enhancements
This post discusses the new productivity and capability features of Visual Studio 2012 IDE for developers. Visual Studio 2012 IDE has got new UI with reduced number of lines, gradients and colors. The content in the IDE differentiated by colors, Your code and icons related to the code will visible more prominent. You can notice there is only one row for tool bar buttons in above picture, others...
Workflow changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about key workflow changes in SharePoint 2013 and creating a sample workflow using SharePoint designer 2013. New Workflow management using Windows Azure workflow in SharePoint 2013. New advanced Visual Workflow designer in SharePoint designer 2013 makes it easy in creating workflows. You can now copy and paste the operations in Workflow Designer.There is no designer and...
User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses about User Profile Service Application changes in SharePoint 2013. One of the key change is better performance in Active Directory Profile Synchronization. It reduced the import time from up to 2 weeks down to 60 hours for extremely large organisations having 200K users. This has been tricky in earlier versions. Several optimizations are already been added in SharePoint...
Data Alerting in SQL Server 2012
You can create a data alert to email notification in SQL Server 2012 reporting services. This data alert sends e-mail notification when only when specific conditions in the data are true at a schedule time. This Date Alerting feature is available only when reporting services runs in sharepoint integration mode. It works only with reports that are designed using Report Designer or Report...
Tabular Modeling in SQL Server 2012
Tabular model is a new database structure in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. When you create tabular model project, SQL Server Developer Tools creates a Model.bim file to the project and creates workspace database in Analysis Services instance. Workspace database acts as a temporary storage for data when you develop a model in SSDT. Workspace Database Workspace Database stores the data...
Analysis Services Server Modes in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2005 and 2008 supports only one mode that is multidimensional mode, Where as SQL Server 2008 R2 supports additional mode PowerPivot for SharePoint. In SQL Server 2012 you have an option to deploy an analysis services instance in tabular mode. This post discusses the Analysis server modes and enhancements in SQL Server 2012. Server Modes Each server mode in SQL Server 2012 has...
SSIS Logging in SQL Server 2012
Enabling SSIS logging is a tedious process in earlier versions. Integration Services Packages has the two options to log the information during the execution, one option is configure the log providers in each package and associate them to executables within the package. Second option is to use SQL statements or script components to implement a custom logging solution. With the introduction...
PerformancePoint Service changes in SharePoint 2013
This post discusses the key changes and features of performance point services in SharePoint 2013. PerformancePoint services allow you to bring the data from multiple data source and present that information in the form of charts, graphs and dashboards. You can publish these dashboards to SharePoint. The end user can drill into the data presented on dashboards and helps in making decisions...
Site Collection themes in SharePoint 2013
This post speaks about themes in SharePoint 2013. Themes engine in SP 2013 has been re-designed and everything is now based on HTML5 instead of proprietary format. You now no longer need to use PowerPoint to create custom themes. You can customize themes in SP 2013 by applying background image, fonts with live preview and color palette. The below are list themes available as out-of box in...