This post outlines how to create a new query rule that will render the visual best bet. You need to create a document library and upload some assets to be used as visual best bet. After creating and configuring the query rule then you should be able to see the Visual Best bet when user search for particular term. The Visual Best bet contains a link to federating SharePoint with the term that...
Wishing you all a very happy start to 2013!
I wish all of my BLOG readers a very happy and safe New Year! I keep my best to write a great posts on new technologies. I appreciate your valuable feedback and comments on my BLOG posts.
Many thanks
Configuring community site in SharePoint 2013
Social Features in SharePoint 2013 were an extension for the features introduced in SharePoint 2010. You can read this post to know what those new extensions in SharePoint 2013. This post outlines the social features which are included in SharePoint 2013 community sites. You can read the community site features here. Creating and Configuring Community site Navigate to the home page in your...
Social Features in SharePoint 2013 My Sites
My Site is a personal site in SharePoint for user. You can read this post to know how to create a My Site in SharePoint 2013. This post focuses on the Social Features which are included in ShareP0int 2013 My Sites. Activity Posting in My Sites – Follow the below step to post updates to a My Site in SharePoint. Navigate to the My Site by clicking the Newsfeed link in the site collection page...
Big Data and StreamInsight
StreamInsight in SQL Server is a Complex Event Processing Engine which can manage and mine the data in real-time. A practical application has developed to stream Twitter data and analyze this data with Microsoft Azure and Hadoop. Application can be downloaded from here. Power Pivot, Power View and Mobile Devices can be used as Front end tools to analyze this data. To get an understanding on...
Visual Studio 2012 Update1 features
Visual Studio team aimed to deliver regular updates to the 2012 version which is update one includes not only the new features but also bug fixes and performance improvements. This post details the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2012 update1. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 update 1 from here 1. It gives you the ability to write C++ applications using Visual Studio...
Service Bus Fundamentals
What is Service Bus? The Windows Azure Service Bus provides a secured infrastructure for wide-spread communication. It provides the connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation and other service points. This post explains various tools around Service Bus like the most fundamental is how to create a namespace and how to create entities and how these work through the windows...
Windows Azure New Features
What is Windows Azure? From platform perspective it is Microsoft computing cloud platform. It is designed and enabled to build the applications and scale it robustly. It is flexible to enable you to handle any type work and it acts as platform as service which provides a set of managed scalable services and now it is turned as infrastructures as service which is the ability to host and scale...
Using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
This post explains how to analyze and navigate complex code using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012. The new Code Map feature in Visual Studio 2012 ultimate allows you to create visualizations in your source code. This helps you to identify and quickly fix the bugs in your code. You need to install Visual Studio update to get this feature from here. With Visual Studio 2012 you can right click on...
Testing features added in Visual Studio 2012 Update1
This post explains the enhanced testing features that were introduced with Visual Studio 2012 update 1. Visual Studio 2012 now supports code coverage analysis during the manual testing. This functionality can be enabled by configuring test settings in Microsoft Test manager. This feature is currently supported for ASP.NET applications that running on IIS. To enable this feature click the Test...