Launch Bing app on Windows 8 From Internet Explorer
Just discovered this today and thought I'd share it... If you want to launch the Bing Search App from a website, Simply add this code to your website:
Demo: Alon Havivi
just add a "q" query string value to the search url bingsearch://app/search?q=
Five SharePoint Apps for Windows Phone
Although the Office hub app working perfectly with document libraries, the integration with SharePoint lists is a bit different. You cannot add/edit list items or pin them to the home screen. Currently lists items are just enumerated and items are always sorted alphabetically by title. Very often users would like to have the possibility to sort by other criteria or fields (e.g. task items need to be sorted by due date and the by important field).
This year on March, Microsoft released the SharePoint SDK for Windows Phone 8, a great opportunity for SharePoint Developers to build apps for Windows Phone. Thanks to this SDK, I built 5 native SharePoint List apps for Windows Phone:
- Tasks - List to track information about projects and other to-do events for your team
- Calendar - List for all of your team's events
- Announcements - List to share news
- Issue tracking - Use an issue-tracking list to store information about specific issues
- Contacts - Use the contacts list to store information about people or groups that you work with.
App features:
- » View/Edit/New/Delete items
- » Live tile information (except Contacts app)
- » Set item limit
- » Sorting - determine the order in which the items in the views are displayed
- » Take a picture (or select a file) and Upload it
Use these apps on a Windows Phone
To use these apps you must have a personal site set up in SharePoint Server 2013 or Office 365 SharePoint Online. Your SharePoint Server 2013 must be configured with basic authentication in order to sign in to the apps. (Your system administrator can help you with this)
To connect, type your List Title and your SharePoint site URL
Then sign in with your username and password.

All apps are available for free :-) at the Windows Phone Store as a Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 version
Enjoy.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Posted by Alon Havivi
Download: SharePoint Task List for Windows Phone
SharePoint Task List for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online lets you to manage your tasks while on the go.
Use this app to:
• View All Tasks, My Tasks, Late Tasks, Upcoming and Completed Tasks
• Create/Edit Tasks
• Add Attachments and/or Upload Photo
• Delete Tasks
NOTE: The SharePoint Task List app works with SharePoint 2013 and the new SharePoint Online. Previous versions of SharePoint are not supported.
The SharePoint Task List uses an authentication cookie that allows you to remain logged in without having to enter your credentials each time you open SharePoint Newsfeed.
When you are signing in, you will need your Task List Title and Your Site URL, username and password.
Sample SharePoint Online URL - https://contoso.sharepoint.com
Sample SharePoint On-Premises URL - https://contoso
You can download the app from the windows store marketplace. SharePoint Task List is free
Download
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Posted by Alon Havivi
Error while crawling LOB contents - SharePoint 2013
Thanks to Rita Zhang:
After searching and testing, the following steps were needed to enable FAST search to crawl SQL contents using BCS and secure store:
• Add the search crawl account as an admininistrator on the BCS service application
• Give the search crawl account execute permission on the BCS models you want to index from the BCS service application
• Add the search crawl account to the Secure store application used by the BCS model
Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ritazh/archive/2012/08/23/enable-fast-search-to-crawl-sql-contents-using-bcs-and-secure-store.aspx
After searching and testing, the following steps were needed to enable FAST search to crawl SQL contents using BCS and secure store:
• Add the search crawl account as an admininistrator on the BCS service application
• Give the search crawl account execute permission on the BCS models you want to index from the BCS service application
• Add the search crawl account to the Secure store application used by the BCS model
Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ritazh/archive/2012/08/23/enable-fast-search-to-crawl-sql-contents-using-bcs-and-secure-store.aspx
Uninstall Office 2013 Preview - Install Office 2013 Error
Setup Errors
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Microsoft Office 2013 does not support upgrading from a preview version of Microsoft Office 2013. You must first uninstall these preview versions of Microsoft Office 2013 products and associated technologies:
Office 15 Click-to-Run Extensibility Component
Office 15 Click-to-Run Licensing Component
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OK
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- do start --> Run (or Winkey + R)
- type "installer" (that opens the %windir%\installer folder), make sure all files are visible in Windows (Folder Settings)
- add the column "Subject" (and make it at least 400 pixels wide)
- sort on the Subject column and scroll down until you locate the name mentioned in your error screen ("Office 15 Click-to-Run Licensing COmponent")
- right click the MSI and choose uninstall
- Done :-) (could be that you need to reboot, but normally not necessary)













