HUGON Jérôme

Microsoft present Windows 8

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:20:06 GMT

Microsoft has unveiled the first official video of the replacement of Windows 7 called logically Windows 8.

The Google +1 button

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:31:28 GMT

Google offers a new feature that allows users to give a point to some web pages they find interesting.
Clicking on a button will publicly share their point of view on a webpage.

TechDays 2011 - What's new in ASP.NET MVC 3

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:29:15 GMT

Following the session I had the pleasure of hosting at TechDays 2011 in Geneva, you will find here all the sources of the demonstration project as a Visual Studio 2010 and some explanation of this one. Links to the powerpoint and the video of the session are also recalled.

Create your first NuGet package

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:29:14 GMT

NuGet is a true evolution to package up your development to facilitate their reuse for other projects. This article describes the basics of creating NuGet packages.

JSON Binding Support

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:25:23 GMT

With the JSON Binding Support in MVC 3, you can send JSON encoded data to the actions and the model will be automatically bound to parameters. This allows the connection between server and client data by sending and receiving JSON those above.

The IValidatableObject interface

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:30:00 GMT

The IValidatableObject interface introduced with version 4 of .NET framework is supported by MVC 3. It allows a level validation of the model and allows you to return specific messages about the state of the model.

Using the Developer Dashboard

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:49:35 GMT

SharePoint 2010 has many new features, among them, the Developer Dashboard. This is a dashboard for analyzing the execution and performance of the current page. The information provided will execution time of queries and events to more general information as the user logged on or page state.

This article details how to enable this feature and use it.

Add icons to document types

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:54:11 GMT

When you add a document of unknown type for SharePoint, a neutral document icon appears in the document librairie near the file.

This article describes how to add a custom icon.

Install the PDF iFilter

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:32:00 GMT

To index the documents, the indexing service use filters for specific file types. Microsoft includes many of these filters with the basic installation (Word, Excel, ...) but there is no filter installed by default for indexing PDF files. The consequence is that none of PDF documents is indexed so it is impossible to do research on those.

This article describes how to install the PDF iFilter to index PDF documents.

Using the service accounts with least privilege to run SharePoint 2010

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:42:18 GMT

The concept of security for accounts is very clear: to give only the rights required to accomplish a task and no more. This concept should apply to accounts of human users but also to service accounts.

SharePoint 2010 services accounts are no exception to that concept. This article describes the accounts required and what rights to assign them to optimize the security of a server farm in SharePoint 2010.

Installing and configuring SMTP and POP3 services for sharepoint 2010

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:22:49 GMT

After installing your development environment, you can complete it by the installation and configuration of SMTP and POP3 services.

The interest is to have opportunities to send and receive emails from your SharePoint 2010 environment in general and more particularly to use SharePoint alerts and contributions by email.

Creating your first SharePoint 2010 site

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:05:58 GMT

The creation of a SharePoint 2010 site is the logical continuation of the installation of a SharePoint server. The operation is very similar to its predecessor, SharePoint 2007.

A day at the TechDays 2011

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:03:32 GMT

I was lucky to participate for one day at the TechDays 2011 in Paris, here I am back on the sessions I attended.

Installing SharePoint 2010

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:51:44 GMT

This article describes the steps for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008.

Install a base VM with Windows Server 2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:50:35 GMT

This article details the process of installing Windows Server 2008 in a virtual machine. The aim is to have a base VM that could be easily duplicated.