I'm pretty new to LightSwitch and trying to make a responsive filter feature to my tables.
This is what it looks like in Excel
Telerik extensions has this feature and you can use that in LightSwitch, but I can't afford the license.
Is there any other way to accomplish the same thing without paying $999? Thanks in advance
There is a filter control extension available here, but it seems that both the VS10 and VS12 versions are not fully functional (I did not have time to check by myself).
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I can't find a resource that clarifies the programming differences between Polaris and Orion versions. I've been googling for a few days now.
Probably you already read this article written by Jukka Niiranen
The Next Dynamics CRM User Experience: Orion
I think Gemini release will bring (at least) the possibility to use Xrm javascript with the new forms (actually is really a shame to don't be able to pre-fill a field or to do some show/hide logic) and provide the xml definition that will replace the ribbon.
I'm not sure if there is such a document yet. Before we start with Orion, we have to pass Gemini, first. And given the inconsistency between road maps and reality this far, it could as well be that Orion will be known as CRM-2014.
I tried the simpledroid with INotifyPropertyChanged and ICommand successfully.
I want to do the same with monotouch and xib designer,but without TouchDialog. Is there a way to implement without inheriting from mvx class as in monodroid?
Is it possible to do the same with MonoMac without Dialog as Portable Library in MonoMac or XaMac in supported now?
I understand what is your goal.
I think you want to start learning MvvmCross for Monotouch with a basic application example as you probably did with SimpleDroid. I tried to do the same without success.
Why ? Because SimpleDialogTouch is an "Advanced" example in my opinion. When you learn Monotouch, you use xib to design your view. But the sample tells you to learn a new tool "Monotouch Dialog" which is a way to display controls programmatically.
You get those errors because the sample implements the ViewModel only for Dialog and not for xib or classic binding.
Finally, you will have to dig into MvvmCross to build your own SimpleTouch implementation. The problem is that you don't have a lot of documentation, but Stuart is the best supporter for a beginner or you can switch to advanced Mvx features if you don't need to understand the underground of MvvmCross. There are a lot of samples, tutorials and posts to tweak Mvx.
Hope that helps.
Is there a way to implement without inheriting from mvx class as in monodroid?
I don't believe this is supported in the current source.
There is an effort underway to separate out the databinding code in MvvmCross so it can be used more easily with other frameworks - e.g. we might try porting MvvmLight across too. This is where my effort is currently focused.
If you need this now, then I think you could fairly easily create this simple binding yourself if you wanted to - but you'd have to take a look at what the SimpleDialog version does - it's not too big a code to copy across to the XIB version - https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/blob/vnext/Cirrious/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Dialog.Touch/Simple/MvxSimpleTouchDialogViewController.cs
But... why not just implement a proper portable MvxViewModel instead?
Is it possible to do the same with MonoMac without Dialog as Portable Library in MonoMac or XaMac in supported now?
Portable libraries are not supported in any release from Xamarin yet - there is an unofficial installer that Jeff very kindly provided - but it's not a release...
For MvvmCross MonoMac/XaMac support, there is one non-PCL version from #deapsquatter around, but I don't believe this has data-binding yet.
I will be working on a PCL and data-binding release for MonoMac or XaMac - but it's on a spare time basis - no-one's come forward with a customer project to fund that work yet. If you or anyone wants to assist with this port, then you are very welcome... but it will be quite technical work - there are changes I intend to make 'under the covers' - so the easiest place for others to help will probably be in later work - adding more views, more bindings, doing QA, making samples, etc.
Note: "Simple" bindings are not the future for MvvmCross and may get dropped from a future release. However, this will only happen after I've separated out the Binding code so that it can be used with other libraries - the first of which will probably be a simple binding example.
I personally don't see much difference or advantage in using these so-called Simple bindings... but maybe I'm missing something...
I noticed that sitecore has the option of exporting users in an Excel format.
I need to have similar functionality for exporting 'participations', (a users can enlist to take part in an 'event', and if their entry is approved via a sitecore workflow, a 'participation' item is created in the content tree)
Since mostly everything in Sitecore is in essence based on items, and I want to export items to Excel, my question is - what are some of the best ways of doing this?
Questions:
Is there a way to re-use this functionality for regular items?
Would it be a good idea to create a custom admin page (any tips on doing this?) which has some custom code that reads the items from the database using the API?
are there sitecore plugins/shared source projects that can help me achieve this?
Or does anyone have a better idea? - would it be better to just store the participations in SQL? I'm mostly doing it this way because I want to make use of the 'free' functionality offers, for example workflow, but if that leads to me using anti-patterns please shoot me ;)
Link is different now: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Advanced_System_Reporter.aspx
P.S. Couldn't leave a comment to original answer as I don't have enough reputation. Oh well :)
Found a most excellent shared source module which does exactly this (and much more)!
Basically it allows you to configure (and easily extend, if you need to) any kind of table based report on 'items'.
The report module shows up as an application in the sitecore menu (like the user manager tool) and comes with features such as xml,csv, xls export. It's also really easy to set up, once you get the hang of it.
http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter
We are using a site definition and it has 3 feature dependencies that we are struggling to identify:
<ActivationDependency FeatureId="7EDD3C9C-8AC6-4ab5-A209-30B5DC422464" />
<ActivationDependency FeatureId="63FDC6AC-DBB4-4247-B46E-A091AEFC866F" />
<ActivationDependency FeatureId="22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" />
Can anyone identify what these features or give me an idea as to how to identify them?
I think they are out of the box moss features but they are not installed on the farm currently.
Thanks for any suggestions
22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416 - Publishing Web Feature
The other two GUIDs are not googleable and don't return any results on MSDN. Are they Microsoft features, or could they be 3rd party?
An alternative to Copernic Dekstop search is a tool called Agent Ransack from Mythicsoft. It allows for really good text search in files (in the FEATURES folder of the 12 hive in your case) and it is free. Download it here.
I use Copernic Desktop Search and have indexed a copy of the 12 hive. I frequently use it to search for out of the box and custom features by GUID, just as you are.
As Andrew said, 7EDD3C9C-8AC6-4ab5-A209-30B5DC422464 and
63FDC6AC-DBB4-4247-B46E-A091AEFC866F are not standard features as they were not in the 12 hive. But if you download Copernic (or use a similar search tool) and point it at your solution, you should be able to find the feature definitions pretty quickly.
We have started using Resharper 4.5 and the naming style functionality that comes with it.
There is some tedious work applying the naming styles.
What I would whould like is to apply my naming styles or part of it as a part of my Code cleanup profile.
Any1 know how to do it, or atleast a less tedious job than spaming + PgDown, + + ?
It does not worth the while for legacy code. I suggest you start using new style for new code and slowly migrate existing code.
Macros would be my suggestion, you should be able to handle this with macros.
VisualAssist might help you significantly in renaming/refactoring (trial-version can be downloaded from http://www.wholetomato.com).
But it is not something to enforce your coding guidelines, though.