Microsoft Blinq Prototype

Overview

Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. Just point Blinq at a SQL database and it will create a website with pages that display sorted and paged data, allow you to update or delete records, create new records, and follow relationships between tables in your database. You don’t need to write SQL queries to use Blinq; LINQ will generate optimized queries for you that request just the data you want to show. Blinq uses the May LINQ Community Tech Preview to access data. The code Blinq creates is simple and easy to customize to fit your needs. Everything in the website Blinq creates is meant as a starting point for a website that meets your needs perfectly, so have fun customizing the pages, experimenting with the code, and making it yours!

 

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MOSS BDC MetaData Manager

"The Business Data Catalog allows structured data from line-of-business applications to be integrated into SharePoint in multiple ways through Web Parts, lists, people profiles, and search. Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once and then reused by end users to access back-end data without writing any code—easily making business data part of portal content. The Business Data Catalog also provides the ability for SharePoint Enterprise Search to integrate back-end business data into the search experience, without having to write any protocol handlers, iFilters, or custom code."

 

If you loved the Business Data Catalog feature in Sharepoint 2007, but don’t want to write the metadata needed to register the data sourde in sharepoint then check this post on Todd Baginski , it provides a tool which generate the metadata automatically with a nice interface.

 

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Ohloh Open Source Directory

If you are interested in open source projects like me 🙂 then check this site; Ohloh is a site launched by some Microsoft employees to evaluate the open source projects.

the following is quoted from the site

 

"We’re mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source software. Search our site for the most current software metrics and project information on open source software projects. "

Windows SharePoint Services V3 Starter Kit: Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Windows SharePoint Services V3

The Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services V3 (Beta 2) contains Microsoft® Visual Studio® project templates for workflow in Windows SharePoint Services V3 (Beta 2) and a sample custom workflow

 

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