Updating Egyptian mobile numbers tool

As NTRA (National Telecomm. Regulatory Authority) will change the mobile numbers ( increasing one digit and change the prefixes for the operators ) , most of us will face the problem of updating all his contacts on his mobile, with too many contacts, each might have more than one mobile this process will be dramatic.

I’ve worked on an Excel sheet automated with VBA script that and by pressing a single button and voila  .. all your contacts will be updated to the new format.

Download it from here

The announced date for this modification is 6th-Oct-2011

 

Steps:

1. Export your contacts from your mobile or outlook if synched.
2. Paste your contacts in the Contacts sheet ( in any format not necessary using the existing one, it’s only an example).
3. Go to the Main Sheet and enter the columns that contain the numbers ( most of the  current phones allow users to store different phones for a single contact ).

j

4. Enter the number of rows the script will go through ( if my numbers running down till row 300 then enter 300 in the Max Rows ).
5. Select the operator(s) you want to update its numbersPress “Update Numbers”.
6. Import the updated contacts to your phone or to outlook to be synched.

Note:

– You will need to allow macros.

 

How to export contacts from Outlook:

1- from File Menu –> Open –> Import (yes Import 🙂 )

2- Select “Export to a file”

 

3- select “Microsoft Excel 97-2003”

4- Select contacts

5- choose folder to save the file in.

How to export IPhone contacts: http://www.trickyways.com/2010/06/how-to-export-iphone-contacts-as-csv-file-in-windows-7/
Download it from here

All your feedback is welcome

Microsoft Sharepoint Team Blog on Sharepoint 2010

Microsoft Sharepoint guys decided to move their blog to hosted Sharepoint 2010 environment and now their blog url is: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog

Developing applications for Sharepoint 2010 from Pattern & Practices

from Sharepoint team blog

“SharePoint 2010 introduces new ways of developing applications for the SharePoint platform. With SharePoint 2010, you can build multi-tenant, hosted applications on an infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and stable. You can create powerful, data-driven solutions using SharePoint lists or external data. You can create client-side functionality that takes advantage of modern browser capabilities and Silverlight to provide a rich user experience. These new features, operational models, and development tools make SharePoint a more complete application platform, and it also introduces new design and development decisions for customers. This guidance helps customers understand the decision points, tradeoffs, and performance implications that the new functionality introduces; it also helps customers learn how to take best advantage of the new capabilities that SharePoint 2010 provides.”

Download the guide from here

 

Component	Description
The guide		"Application Foundations for SharePoint 2010" describes approaches you can use to address the challenges of testability, flexibility, configuration, logging and exception handling, and maintainability; it also explains how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library components in these areas. "Execution Models in SharePoint 2010" provides deep technical insights into the mechanics of the full-trust execution environment, the sandbox execution environment, and various hybrid approaches to executing code in SharePoint applications. "Data Models in SharePoint 2010" explains new list and external data functionality and data access techniques, key design decision points that can help you to choose between standard SharePoint lists and external lists, and techniques and patterns to address large lists and list aggregation. "Client Models in SharePoint 2010" provides guidance on how to best use the new client-side functionality to access data and build richer client experiences with Silverlight and Ajax. Each section also contains a set of how-to topics. These explain how to perform specific tasks that the team found challenging to discover.
Reference implementations		This release includes eight reference implementations that you can deploy to a SharePoint 2010 test environment. The reference implementations reinforce the key concepts in the guide and illustrate how to build applications that reflect real-world scenarios. Each reference implementation includes a detailed scenario and design overview, an explanation of the design decisions the team faced for the implementation, and an installation script to automate setup. This release includes reference implementations for the following scenarios: ·         Sandboxed solution ·         Sandboxed solution with a full-trust proxy ·         Sandboxed solution with External List ·         Sandboxed solution with custom workflow activities ·         Farm Solution (timer job) ·         SharePoint List Data Models ·         External Data Models ·         Client Application Models
The SharePoint Guidance Library		The library is a collection of reusable classes delivered as source code that address common challenges in application development for the SharePoint platform. This release improves on the previous release of the library by adding support for sandboxed solutions and taking advantage of new SharePoint features. The SharePoint Guidance Library consists of three key components: ·         SharePoint Service Locator. This provides a simple implementation of the Service Locator pattern for SharePoint applications. The service locator enables you to isolate your code from dependencies on external types, which makes your code more modular, easier to test, and easier to maintain. ·         Application Settings Manager. This provides a robust and consistent mechanism for storing and retrieving configuration settings at each level of the SharePoint hierarchy, from individual sites (SPWeb) to the entire server farm (SPFarm). ·         SharePoint Logger. This provides easy-to-use utility methods that you can employ to write information to the Windows Event log and the SharePoint Unified Logging Service (ULS) trace log. It also enables you to create custom diagnostic areas and categories for logging.

Free E-Book, Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

For .net developers who are eager to work with visual studio 2010, Microsoft released a draft preview of "Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" book; which you can download free here 

  

"The book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It’s a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot of the exciting new language features and new versions of the most popular technologies without putting the emphasis on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you would get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010."

MVP Awarded for 2010

Just got the renewal email from Microsoft , now I’m MVP for 2010 🙂

Sharepoint 2010 Ignite online training now available

Did you start Sharepoint 2010 training ?, Microsoft announced that the Sharepoint 2010 Ignite training online is now available for both IT Professionals and Developers

Go ahead and register here

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for IT Professionals
SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for Developers

Sharepoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch dates

Microsoft announced today on Microsoft Sharepoint Team blog the launch date for both Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 to be May, 12th 2010
Also the RTM version to be available April 2010.

and for everyone yes, you can join the launch as it will be available virtually.

you can register here.

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is Available !

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and .NET framework 4 for MSDN Subscribers download on Monday, Feb. 8th and will be publicly available February 10th.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Dec. 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft has released Dec. 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for Sharepoint Server 2007 and now available at Update Center

For the details of the cumulative update : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx.

MVPs and MSPs meeting

Yesterday Microsoft has invited the Egyptian MVPs and MSPs (Microsoft Students Partners) to a meeting with Dina Lasheen Program Manager at Microsoft regarding our features wishlist for Visual Studio 2010 and the discussion was really fruitful,also we’ve discussed the Arabic problems developers face in Reporting Services ; if you have concerns or you faced any problem while designing arabic reports please leave me a comment here so we can gather all our problems and and send them to Dina

 

Thank you Mohamed Wahby for giving us this change.