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  • MJ Ferdous!! is a Software Engineer professional from 6 years ago. Now he is working in OT Group S.P.A., Italy as Sr. Software Engineer. He is responsible for research and developent (R & D) on SharePoint 2007 platform and also provides some consultancy for their clients for sharepoint development. He is also Technical Author of DevMedia Group, Brazil for their Large Portal Mrbool.com as well as owner & moderator of several groups of sharepoint and asp.net. More than 22 video lessons have been already published on Sharepoint 2007 and Silverlight 2. He always loves to work with hard & complex issues and like to share it in his Blog & Groups. Basically he works in Microsoft platform in Dot.net technology. His personal site: http://mjferdous.com/

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May 2009 - Posts

Integrate Google Vs Microsoft Analytics with SharePoint Site

 

There are many arguments about analytics. Which one is better between Google Analytics and Microsoft Analytics? I think it is better to integrate Google analytics at this moment. There are a lot of things that people like about Google Analytics - it keeps things fast and simple. This is exactly why Microsoft Analytics isn’t popular yet. I hope Microsoft Analytics will also become popular soon.

Disadvantage of Microsoft analytics:

•    Slow loading time
•    Not optimized for viewing on normal size screens
•    Dynamic images rather than flash lead to a lot of loading and reloading
•    Breaks web browser back button
•    Times out quickly and forces you to log in over and over again

The screens look great and everything has gotten a cool but totally useless 3d look

Navigation & activity breakdown:

Funnel visualization:

 

On the other hand, Google is going to be pushing even harder to make Google Analytics the best analytics solution on the market

Advantage of Google Analytics:

•    Simple media and downloads tracking (via modified tracking code)
•    Simple outbound link tracking (via modified tracking code)
•    Unrestricted number of goals and funnels
•    Help to target site to the best market

In comparison, the Google Analytics visitors report is a minimalists dream:

 

How to integrate it with the SharePoint Site? It is similar to integrate like standard Analytics by embedding script in the given site. First you have to create an account for your site and Google Analytics will provide some java script to embedding it in the site.  See the following screenshot to understand more.

References:

http://www.microsoft-analytics.com/

http://www.googleanalyticsresults.com/2008/05/google-analytics-vs-microsoft-analytics.html

Integrating Visio diagram in SharePoint

You can access Visio files stored in a SharePoint document library either from the SharePoint site or directly from Microsoft Office Visio 2007.

Accessing files from a SharePoint site provides check-in and check-out capability and the ability to view and edit files. You can edit data by using Internet Explorer or directly within Visio.

When you edit a drawing from the SharePoint site, you are prompted to save and check-in changes or to discard changes when the drawing is closed.

If you want to view visio diagram inside sharepoint, then you need to install Visio Viewer 2007. The Visio 2007 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0, 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007) inside their Microsoft IE 5.0 or later Web browser.

You can use Visio viewer inside a content editor web part by pasting <OBJECT classid ...> </object> into the Content Editor Source Editor. See the demo of Visio Diagram Integration from here

Download Visio Viewer: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d88e4542-b174-4198-ae31-6884e9edd524&displaylang=en

 

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb229690.aspx

http://www.den-dopper.com/2006/11/07/how-to-embed-a-clickable-visio-diagram-in-a-sharepoint-site/

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/visio.aspx

First Look on Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0

Mix It Up: Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 in Singapore on 25th March 09.

It is about future of Web Development with Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 by Maung Maung Phyo. Visual Studio 2010 is being designed to give developers and development teams every advantage in getting groundbreaking applications to market—faster and easier than ever. The session agenda was on

•IDE Enhancements
  –Design View vs Code View
•New / Enhanced / Rolled-up Technologies
  –ASP.NET AJAX 4.0
  –MVC
  –Dynamic Data
•Web Deployment

You can download the pdf version of this session from here

Additional References

 

Enjoy!!@2010

 

"Out-of-Browser" experience of Silverlight 3

This lesson will introduces you One of the new features "Out-of-Browser" experience of Silverlight 3. It will show how to Enable Out-of-Browser Support in Silverlight 3.

The "Out-of-Browser" feature remarkably different than Adobe AIR's approach. From the user's perspective, Out-of-Browser support in Silverlight 3 allows installation directly from the browser. Here, you will find a SlideShow Silverlight Application with enabling Out of Browser Support as well as you can change Title, Discription and default Icon also.

I created a new Silverlight 3 Application using Visual Studio.Net 2008 IDE. Then added a simple slide show control and enabled Out of Browser Support.

E-Learning-VS.Net 2008 Silverlight 3.0-Out of Browser Feature-Lesson 03

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Silverlight 3 Child Window or Modal Window

How to use Silverlight 3 Child Window or Modal Window Compare to traditional Modal Window such as MessageBox. It will also show you advance use of Child Window by developing a simple SlideShow Control.

You can create a silverlight custom Modal Message Box window using Child window. Silverlight 3 Child Window has built-in Modal feature where you can integrate all the silverlight controls as like as normal silverlight window. You can also a develop a simple custom silverlight image Slide Show Control inside child window by following this lesson (Part 2).

I created a new Silverlight 3 Application using Visual Studio.Net 2008 IDE. Then added one Child Window as Silverlight item to develop Custom MessageBox and added another one for developing a slide show control.

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E-Learning-VS.Net 2008 Silverlight 3.0-Child Window-Part 1-Lesson 01

E-Learning-VS.Net 2008 Silverlight 3.0-Child Window-Part 2-Lesson 02

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How to use Perspective 3D Animation in Silverlight 3

A new feature in Silverlight 3 is the Perspective 3D Transforms. The "Perspective 3D" projection feature is a great approach to animate 2D object by putting into 3D space. You can get more flexibility to see different 3D view of 2D control where user can interact dinamically using slider control.

Note that this is not a real 3D, Silverlight does not support 3D yet.

I have created two video lessons in Mr.Bool learning portal for the silverlight developers how to view 3D perspective projection for 2D object in Silverlight 3. Here, you will find a Silverlight media element rotate from different perspective such as from X, Y, Z axis by supporting center of rotation as well as  global and local offset of X, Y, Z.

It is constructed by Creating a new Silverlight 3 Application using Visual Studio.Net 2008 IDE. Then i added media element control and implemented 3D view dinamically using slider control

E-Learning-VS.Net 2008 Silverlight 3.0-Perspective 3D Animation-Part1-Lesson 04

E-Learning-VS.Net 2008 Silverlight 3.0-Perspective 3D Animation-Part2-Lesson 05

 

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