FBA in SharePoint 2010 requires claims mode

If you have already set up Forms Based Authentication(FBA) in SharePoint 2010 public beta, you would have noticed not much of a change from SharePoint 2007. As you are aware, SharePoint 2010 includes new authentication model called Claims Based authentication. You can read more about this here. Sinc... [More]

Come to the AUS and NZ SharePoint 2010 Launch Event

As you are aware, SharePoint 2010 is launching globally on May 12th. If you are in New Zealand and want to celebrate the launch of SharePoint 2010, feel free to join us!  We are organising a special User Group Event following the USA official launch of Office and SharePoint 2010! We intend to m... [More]

SharePoint 2010: 'The default web application could not be determined' Error

  When building SharePoint 2010 applications using Visual Studio 2010: This shouldn't happen at any instance, but in an unlikely event, you may end up with this error (probably when building a custom BDC .NET assembly) :   \   Error occurred in deployment ‘Add Solution’: The ... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Lists.GetListItemChangesWithKnowledge Method

SharePoint 2010 has its own sync provider built in which is consumed by other client applications such as SharePoint Workspace 2010. You can read the case study here.   Microsoft Uses Sync Framework to Create New Collaboration Solution As Microsoft, the world leader in software for perso... [More]

Upgrading VSeWSS 1.1/1.2/1.3 Projects to target SharePoint 2010

Paul Andrew has just released the VSWeWSS Upgrade Tool to upgrade your existing VSeWSS 1.1 or 1.2 or 1.3 projects to target SharePoint 2010 projects. This tool, extends the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects and allows you to import your VSeWSS project.   This tool comes with source, so y... [More]

Toggle SharePoint User Interface between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010

Just released the SharePoint Toggle UI project to Codeplex: http://sptoggleui.codeplex.com/   If you are one of those users who is still getting used to the new SharePoint 2010 user interface, you can now switch between the familiar SharePoint 2007 user interface and the new SharePoint 2010 u... [More]

Part 2: BCS Connectivity Errors

Now that you have configured BCS, you can create external content types and external lists. You can refer to my blog post – SharPoint 2010: BCS Walkthrough – to quickly learn how to create an external content type and an external list.   BDC Access Denied Error Now that your external list is... [More]

Part 1: Configuring BCS in SharePoint 2010

There has been a lot of blog posts floating around (including in this blog) on how to consume external data into SharePoint 2010 using the new Business Connectivity Services(BCS) feature set built using the new Business Data Connectivity(BDC) service application. But less has been told on how to con... [More]

Event Receivers in SharePoint 2010

You might ask what is new with Event Receivers in SharePoint 2010 and you are sure to get an answer that it is now possible to have event receivers for: List Workflows Synchronous and Asynchronous Event Receivers Now in SP2010, you can configure event receivers to be: Synchronous ... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Log to ULS from code

Note: Only supported in SharePoint 2010 and higher versions Something every SharePoint developer asks for and here it is how you log to ULS from your code in SharePoint 2010. Below is a console app: You need to add reference to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. Very simple! And here is our log from UL... [More]

SPTechCon - a recap

After the massive success of Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2009, where SharePoint 2010 was introduced, SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) held last week at San Francisco was a blast! With more than 700 attendees and 37 speakers, the conference had over 80 sessions which included ... [More]

SharePoint 2010 List Validation Formulas

Earlier, I wrote a post on Column Validation and List Validation settings in SharePoint 2010. If you are wondering where to get help for the currently supported formulas for SharePoint 2010 beta 2, then here is the ‘precious’ link for you - http://bit.ly/sp2010-formulas   If you... [More]

Download SharePoint 2010 VHD

Update: SharePoint 2010 VHD is available now for all to download. Download here - http://bit.ly/bUILD0   If you (or your company) is Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partner, then the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 virtual machine is finally available for you to download and... [More]

Building and Deploying BDC Models in SharePoint Foundation 2010

** Note: The problem and solution discussed below applies for SharePoint 2010 public beta. Future versions may avoid the need to copy this DLL from SharePoint Server. **   One of the cool things about SharePoint Foundation 2010 (the ‘free’ version) is that it supports Business Con... [More]

SharePoint 2010 and Forms Based Authentication

If you are planning to use Forms Based Authentication(FBA) for your SharePoint 2010 site, here is an excellent step-by-step procedure to configure so:   Update: For SharePoint 2010 RTM, follow this blog post: http://bit.ly/a5WhlE HOW TO:Forms Based Authentication (FBA) on SharePoint 2... [More]