Top 10 Most Viewed Blog Posts on CloudShare Community

This week we’re going back into the blog vault to share the most popular CloudShare Community blog posts from last year.  We hope you find this trip down memory lane useful (Especially all the SharePointers out there)!

• Step-by-Step Guide to Installing SharePoint with SQL 2012 PowerPivot, PowerView, and Reporting Services

The installation of this server is not a traditional SharePoint Server installation. It can be a bit complicated and quite confusing. I have decided to make your life a bit easier by writing this post with a step-by-step guide to installing SharePoint Server 2010 With SQL 2012 PowerPivot, PowerView and Reporting Services.

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Integrating SharePoint & Azure with CloudShare (III)

In my last article about integrating SharePoint & Azure with CloudShare, I explained how to integrate Windows Azure Marketplace data in SharePoint 2010 sites through a Business Connectivity Service (BCS) connector. In the first article of the series, I introduced you to some of the scenarios available when you integrate Azure data and/or services in SharePoint 2010 (either On-Premise or Online). In today’s article, I will describe a simple approach to integrate SQL Azure Data in a SharePoint Online (SPO) site without doing any kind of coding. Let’s begin. Read the rest of this entry »

CloudShare will sim-ship the final release of Visual Studio 12 RTM

Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta on February 29, 2012. As one of the first partners, CloudShare offers full support for Visual Studio 11 in a dev/test environment for the greatest in development agility in the cloud. Read the rest of this entry »

Integrating SharePoint & Azure with CloudShare (Part II)

Last week, I explained how to integrate SharePoint & Windows Azure with CloudShare (read the full post here). Today, I will show you how to integrate Windows Azure Marketplace data in SharePoint 2010 sites through a Business Connectivity Service (BCS) connector. The BCS connector is created in Visual Studio 2012 RC (VS 2012 RC) and deployed to a SharePoint 2010 farm. Read the rest of this entry »

How to integrate Team Foundation Server with SharePoint

Team Foundation Server 2010 is a product that manages the software development process throughout the IT lifecycle. You can use TFS server to manage your source control, tasks, bugs, storage of build, and test results. Today, I am going to show you how to integrate Team Foundation Server with SharePoint.  Read the rest of this entry »

How to Resolve an Installation Error of Full Text Search Component in SQL Server

I was deploying a new Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in an existing server farm that has SQL 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 Servers. One of the software prerequisites of Visual Studio TFS is the SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search feature.  Read the rest of this entry »

Integrating SharePoint & Windows Azure with CloudShare

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure are currently the rockstars of the Microsoft platforms.  This post is about how you can tie them together! Read the rest of this entry »

SharePoint On-Premise and Online Development with CloudShare and Visual Studio 11 Beta

I have spent my last few posts on the CloudShare blog focusing on how to develop specific SharePoint artifacts to both SharePoint Online and On-Premise using Visual Studio 11 Beta (Note: You can review prior articles by accessing my profile page).

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CloudShare: Develop and Deploy SharePoint Solutions From the Cloud to the Cloud – Part II!

In part 1 of this series I wrote about how straightforward it is to develop and deploy SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint Online artifacts through Visual Studio 11 Beta. Read the rest of this entry »

Assembla’s free Subversion service within a CloudShare SharePoint development environment (as posted on Rene Modery’s blog)