Posted by Scott on January 17, 2012
There are a few different ways to present YouTube videos to users in a SharePoint 2010 portal. The trusty Silverlight Media Player web part (if you want to rip the media down locally) or a content editor linked to an external file are both viable options. But for the common page editor/content owner, those aren’t the most user friendly options available.
Enter the Page Viewer web part (aka the iFrame web part). How does this technological wonder better our lives? Watch and learn.
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Posted by Scott on April 6, 2011
Microsoft just released an updated version of it’s guidance for Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010.
From Microsoft:
Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when designing and developing applications for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010. The guidance focuses on the building blocks that every developer needs to understand to become an effective SharePoint developer or architect.The guide is provided as a Help (.chm) file and has four core areas: application foundations, execution models, data models, and client models. Eight reference implementations illustrate the core concepts covered in the guide. The reusable class library provides code to help developers build more manageable, flexible, and testable applications. Source code is provided for all reference implementations and for the reusable library. The reference implementations have automated setup scripts to configure the applications.
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Posted by Scott on November 17, 2009
Microsoft currently has a slew of updates available for Silverlight. If, like me, you don’t want to see/install Silverlight on your production servers (SQL/DC/DNS/etc.), you will find that it is not as easy as hiding one update. Thankfully, the fix is to continue hiding updates.
After KB974331 has been hidden, Silverlight will continue to show as an available optional update, until the following updates are hidden as well:
- KB970363
- KB960353
- KB957938
- KB955305
- KB951213
- KB946609
Yes, that is a total of 7 updates that need to be hidden to no longer be nagged to install Silverlight.
Posted by Scott on May 22, 2009
Microsoft recently recently released/pushed out a new add-on for interacting with Netflix, allowing for the viewing of “instant” movies from within the Media Center 10ft. UI.
One quirk that you may run into is that videos are not playing after installation. You might need to break out the keyboard, as Silverlight will have opened a dialog behind the Media Center window asking you to enable protected content. Once that hurdle is crossed, it should be smooth sailing.
Netflix in Windows Media Center
[Microsoft Windows: Netflix in Windows Media Center]
[via Hacking Netflix]
