Building a BDC Model using the .NET Assembly Connector

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]

MSDN and TechNet Subscribers: Download SharePoint Server 2010 Beta2 and Office 2010 Beta2

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.

SharePoint 2010: Building a SharePoint Console Application

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]

SharePoint 2010 List Improvements – Column Validation and List Validation Settings

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 Lists Improvements – List Lookups and Relationships

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]

SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell – Made for Each Other!

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]

Office DevCon Session Downloads

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

SharePoint 2010: Content Type Hubs – Publish and Subscribe to Content Types

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]

Workflow Support for External Lists

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]