.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download

I found on couple of blog so though to share this information as well....

• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET AJAX History
• ASP.NET Silverlight controls
• ADO.NET Data Services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework

Download the training kit

SharePoint protocol documentation released...

SharePoint Protocol Documentation Released.......

They are split into two groups Front End and Back End. Front end protocols are all the ones that typically talk to a front end web server and the back end ones are mostly how the front end server talks to other servers such as SQL Server.

Get them here: SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1

 

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (64 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en

Silverligt Blue Print for SharePoint

Integrate Silverlight with SharePoint? Check out the brand new Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint site: http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/ !

'Office 14' to be more Web-friendly

Here is the link to the Article on this http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/11/Office-14-to-be-more-Web-friendly-Gates-says_1.html

Configuring BLOB Caching for SharePoint Web Application

BLOB Caching is a feature that isn't well known in SharePoint but serializes large objects to disk on the Web Front Ends to avoid database round-tripping. BLOB Caching would prove beneficial for those who work with large file sizes as this improves page delivery time as cache stores files on front-end server and reduces database traffic. You need to enable BLOB Caching you need to edit your web.config file and changes will be applied to all site collections within the web application.

BLOB is Binary Large Object. here are the steps......

Open web.config file of your Web Application.

You can locate web.config file's location from IIS Manager.

Enable and configure the disk-based cache(BLOB)

• In the web.config file, find the following line:

<BlobCache location="C:\blobCache" path="\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$" maxSize="10" enabled="false"/>

              change enabled parameter, from       "false" to "true"

• To change the size of the cache, type a new number for maxSize

.                   The size is expressed in gigabytes (GB), and 10 GB is the default.

                If the directory that is specified in the location parameter does not have enough space to accommodate the cache size, you can type a new directory

                  for the location. 

• To add new file types to the BLOB cache, type the file type next to the other file types. Separate each file type with a pipe (|) character as shown in the file.

Save the file, and close the file

There is no need to reset the iis after doing this.

Knowledge Management 2.0 With MOSS 2007

Knowledge management is the name of a concept in which an enterprise consciously and comprehensively gathers, organizes, shares, and analyzes its knowledge in terms of resources, documents, and people skills.

During mid 90's, it was believed that few enterprises actually had a comprehensive knowledge management practice operation. Advances in technology and the way we access and share information have changed that; many enterprises now have some kind of knowledge management framework in place.

Knowledge management involves data mining and some method of operation to push information to users. There are various solutions offering to help an enterprise inventory and access knowledge resources.Basically Knowledge Management solutions have ability to organize and locate relevant content and expertise required to address specific business tasks and projects.  I believe that MOSS 2007 has most of the Knowledge Management abilities. and their are some Scanners available which has capability of one touch scanning to SharePoint. if you look at the four processes of Knowledge Management you will find that MOSS 2007 can become best fit for Knowledge Management.

1. Gathering
2. Organizing
3. Refining 
4. Disseminating

MOSS has great capabilities in Organizing, Refining & Disseminating Content and it has partial Gathering capability which can be completed using One Touch Scanners and some custom coding using C# or VB.net over SharePoint Object Model.

Knowledge Management plan generally involves a survey of corporate goals and a close examination of the tools, both traditional and technical, that are required for addressing the needs of the company. The challenge is to select or build software that fits the context of the overall plan and encourage employees to share information. MOSS 2007 is flexible enough to give such capabilities.