My previous post on BCS Walkthrough showed how to make use of the SQL Server Connector, connect to a database,and bring the data back to SharePoint 2010. This used the SQL Server as its data source. If you want to bring the data back from a WCF service, there is the out of the box WCF Service Connec... [More]

So, Microsoft has just released a wave of (beta) products to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. If you are looking to get your hands dirty on the latest and greatest SharePoint 2010, then this is the perfect time.

If you are using SharePoint Server 2007 to build a console application, you would do something like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint;   namespace ... [More]

Another great improvement in SharePoint 2010 is that now you can specify formulas that validate the columns based on other columns! Let me take you through an example. Here is a simple list called Scores It stores the student scores for Paper 1 – Paper 5 , total score and the result. The scor... [More]

SharePoint 2010 brings in quite a few changes to Lists in SharePoint, especially in the lookup columns and enforcing relationships. When you create a Lookup Column in SharePoint 2010 which fetches data from another List’s field, you can now add additional lookup fields and not just the identi... [More]

One of the cool new features introduced in SharePoint 2010 are the new set of PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint. I have been working on those PowerShell Cmdlets for some time now (mainly configuring SharePoint service applications than development) and I am quite impressed to see how simple things a... [More]

As promised, you can download my Office DevCon session slides and project below:

MOSS 2007 Say for example you have a Site Collection Web Application1 and you have created a series of content types to use. Now, you create Web Application2 and find the necessity to reuse the content types created in Web Application 1. There is no way you could share or reference those content ty... [More]

If you are already playing with SharePoint 2010 and BCS, you would have noticed that there is no option to associate workflows for external lists. Many users have asked me whether these external list support workflows, so here is the answer from Tom Rizzo, SharePoint Senior Director, at the MSDN for... [More]