Entries tagged with customization - Channel 9

More Windows 7 Themes from Paul Thorrott

Sarah Perez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:46:00 GMT

Did you enjoy the Washington D.C. theme from Paul Thorrott that we shared with you earlier? If so, then you’ll be happy to hear that Paul released four more theme packs like that D.C. one for all us Windows 7 users to enjoy. Three of the themes focuses on other photogenic locales: Paris, London, and Ireland. And the fourth theme is all about one of my personal addictions: coffee! Yep, the fourth theme pack features lattes and foam-topped cups that make me want to hit up a Starbucks right away. If the above links don’t work, you can download the theme packs from Paul’s SkyDrive folder instead.

How to Make Your Own Theme Pack for Windows 7

Sarah Perez — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:19:00 GMT

You’ve been hearing a lot about themes in Windows 7 lately, haven’t you? It’s probably because everyone and their brother is out there creating new theme packs for you to download.

The latest one comes from Mike Swanson, a talented macro photographer known to his friends as the “desktop wallpaper” man. For people like Mike, theme packs are a great way to showcase their photography. Do you want to make your own theme pack? It’s actually not that hard to do at all.

Components of a Theme Pack

To get you up to speed, a theme pack is a file that contains the following items:

One or more desktop backgrounds
Optional customizations for Aero glass, sounds, screensavers, icons, cursors, etc.

Creating a Basic Theme

Creating a basic theme is easy – you just customize your desktop the way you want it, then click “Save theme” on the Personalization page in the Control Panel. Just make sure to choose the “theme pack” type in the drop-down list when doing so. That’s really all there is to it.

Getting More Advanced

If you want to edit the themepack file directly or create a file from scratch in a text editor (geek cred goes to you!), you should check out this resource over on MSDN: "Creating and Installing Theme Files." The documentation there provides details on the various sections of a theme file and what sort of syntax should be used.

ARCast.TV - Greg Galipeau on Customizing SharePoint Solutions

Bob Familiar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:40:00 GMT

In this interview, Greg Galipeau, Project Manager and senior consultant of RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue about customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based solutions. With demos Greg walks through each of the three customization options -- using the SharePoint Designer tool, using the site templaadmin function inside a SharePoint site, and creating custom site definitions with Visual Studio and other tools. He further talks about what developers can do with web parts, asp.net web applications and workflow activities while customizing SharePoint solutions. Through his consulting experience he shares his thoughts on how to address potential SharePoint customization issues that customers often run into.

Customizing CRM's Entity Model and User Experience

Girish Raja — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:14:00 GMT

Custom navigation along with custom entities allows you to start creating Line of Business (LOB) applications in a variety of vertical industries. This screencast shows how you can import the entity and sitemap customizations into the CRM platform to quickly convert a vanilla CRM instance to a customized business application.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-Customization/ for the conversation I had with Ben Riga on the topic of customizing the CRM Platform.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.