Have you ever suffered through a SharePoint page taking a long to render? If you did, how easy was it to find out what caused it? This may not be a easy task, but now SharePoint 2010 has a new feature call Developer Dashboard which provides performance and tracing information about the page renderin... [More]

There may have various data sources in one enterprise using by different applications, SharePoint as a portal it will have need to integrate business data from back-end server applications. This is BDC came out in SharePoint 2007. Connecting to external data in SharePoint with BDC in SharePoint 200... [More]

As many of the developers don’t have WSS or MOSS installed at development environment, the Visual Studio Remote Debugger will help us to debug our SharePoint applications. There are couples of things needs to be notice while remote debugging: 1.        ... [More]

SharePoint Lookup type can allow user to pick up the items from existing List, when editing the item it will show as a dropdown box (<SELECT> Element  in HTML ). Sometimes we may want to fire the onchange event when the selected item changed.  This is easy by using JavaScript to... [More]

SQL Server 2008 includes a new version of Report Builder which was first introduced in SQL Server 2005 for end users to create ad hoc reports. It delivers an intuitive, Office-like report authoring environment enabling business and power users to leverage their experience with Microsoft Office ... [More]

Waterfall chart is a special type of floating-column chart, it is normally used for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of intermediate positive or negative values. Usually the initial and the final values are represented by whole columns, while the intermediate values are den... [More]