We all know SharePoint supports to store images along with user in the userprofile database. End user can user MySite to modify the content of their profile through Out Of Box screens that is very handy. but the question is How to use the image / data on the screens where SharePoint left for customization? Like we have a general requirement to show user's image along with User Name on the ListView webpart. or on the Document Library. or on the Listing page where use form field to bind data so users can view items.
Working with Knockoutjs and MVC makes our life easy, but still there are some points that require some special attention. And one of these points is How much data is posted back to the server when we make a async call? Well it is obviously not required for very small application that target very limited users that are using very high connectivity with the server. but most of the application are not like that. In general we have to take care of such things to make our application more reliable and scalable. Quick reference to the issue i have observed in many applications.
While configuring Reporting service with SharePoint i had found that Reporting Services is not available at Central Administration > General Application Settings
For Form Based Authentication / Sql Server First enable Enable Forms Based Authentication (FBA) for Claims Based Authentication web application from Central Admin.
Well all of us are aware Business Connectivity Service of SharePoint2010 and there are 100's or post that describes How to create BCS, How To Deploy BCS and many more.
First of all we discuss how the dialog framework works. Well SharePoint uses Modal Dialogs for both Taking input from the user.(as New Item / Edit Itms forms) Notifing end User that some processing is going on. so please wait. For ease to work on these dialogs we are going to use OOB methods and feature present in SP.UI.ModalDialog Class.