Creating External Lists Programmatically

Creating External Lists using SharePoint Designer 2010 or SharePoint 2010 UI is just a breeze. But what if you want to create them programmatically? There are two different ways you could do so: Using Object Model Using the SPWeb.Lists.Add method we can create an external list: SPListDataSource ... [More]
Aug 18 Chaks | Talks

Speaking at TechEd New Zealand 2010

  This year, I am presenting two sessions at TechEd New Zealand 2010: Session 1 OFS203 Building Business Applications using Business Connectivity Services using SharePoint Designer 2010 (Part 1) Track: Office & SharePoint Time: Tuesday, August 31 11:50 - 12:50 This session will show ... [More]

What is Included in BCS – BCS Feature Comparison Table

Below is a simple table to find what BCS features are baked into the SharePoint 2010 platform editions: BCS Feature SharePoint Foundation Standard Edition Enterprise Edition External List Yes Yes ... [More]

BCS Limitations

Even though BCS is great and can do wonders when you want SharePoint 2010 to interact with your external systems or other LOB applications, it has its own limitations. Understanding these limitations will help you build good BCS solutions. Below are some/all of the BCS/External Lists limitations: ... [More]
Aug 13 Chaks | Blog

Free First Chapter: Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration

Silverlight for SharePoint 2010 is one of the newly added features to SharePoint 2010. It includes a rich set of APIs that allow you to interact with SharePoint data – lists, document libraries, sites etc., from your Silverlight application. I am in the middle of reviewing the Microsoft Silverligh... [More]

SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio Replaceable Parameters

This is one of the best features in the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010! You can use these replaceable parameters in your project files for SharePoint values. Visual Studio will replace them with actual values when packaging the solution. This is very useful, especially in Elements fi... [More]

Download Document Set as zip

One of the cool new feature in SharePoint 2010 is Document Sets. They can easily replace Folders in SharePoint 2010. Document Sets help you organize related documents into a ‘set’ and also provide a user interface (home page) to manage them. You can also use metadata against the document set which m... [More]
Jul 12 Chaks | Code-Camp

SharePoint Sunday – New Zealand Code Camp

   Every year Code Camp is organised the day before Tech-Ed and this year it falls on August 29th, Sunday! If you don’t know about Code Camp – Code Camps are non-profit, and organised by members of the local developer community. This year, Code Camp includes the following tracks: 1) .... [More]

Using the SharePoint 2010 Modal Dialog

SharePoint 2010 introduces the new dialog framework which helps users stay in context of the page without navigating away from the page. Yes, the modal dialogs that pop up: The JavaScript client object model provides the SP.UI.ModalDialog class to work with the dialog framework. In order to work... [More]

SharePoint 2010 Client OM: Type Casting Field instances to Field Type instances

If you are using Client Object Model to create Fields, you will be working with the Field class: private static void AddFieldsToProjectsList() { String fldDescriptionXml = String.Format(FieldXml, "<guid>", ... [More]

SharePoint 2010 EcmaScript(JavaScript) IntelliSense in VS2010

If you are using JavaScript Client OM for building SharePoint 2010 solutions, especially manipulating the Ribbon, building modal dialog boxes etc., , you might be wondering how I can get IntelliSense working for my JavaScript code.   It is actually very simple. At the top of your .js file, yo... [More]

SharePoint 2010:Starting Site Workflows Programmatically

So you have created a very cool site workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010, published and you want to start programmatically.   Below is the code snippet to start a site workflow. Credit goes to MSDN user Paul Turner :   static void Main(string[] args) {     using... [More]

BCS: Showing a friendly display name on the External Item Picker control

Associations in BCS are a great way to relate two external content types based on a foreign key. It is actually very easy to create an association using SharePoint Designer 2010 – no code required!   You can read more on the following blogs posts to know more about associations:   1) ... [More]

PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010

  If you are planning to install PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010, then there are two ways to install:   1) Installing to an existing SharePoint 2010 farm   2) Installing to a new SharePoint 2010 farm   I always find (myself and) more people fall in the first category where ... [More]

Co-authoring in Office Word 2010

So, you have heard of this wonderful thing called co-authoring in Word/PowerPoint/Excel 2010 and very eager to try it out?   If you have SharePoint 2010 + Office 2010 installed, then you are all setup to try out co-authoring right away! Yes, no extra setup needed! It should also work with Sha... [More]

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