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]

SharePoint 2010: Visio Services

Microsoft introduced Visio Services in SharePoint Server 2007. With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has taken the Visio Services to the next level by allowing rendering of Visio diagrams and charts within the browser. Users can now use the out of the box Visio web parts to render the Visio diagrams and b... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Sandboxed Solutions

SharePoint 2010 introduces new feature called Sandboxed Solutions. These sandboxed solutions are nothing but .wsp packages which has limited access to resources and runs isolated alongside other processes. Sandboxed solutions will not be able to make updates beyond the scope of the current site. You... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Extending a SharePoint Node in Server Explorer

SharePoint Server Explorer is a new addition to Visual Studio 2010 along with the Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint. It is a very good tool if you want to browse the contents (site columns, content types, features etc.,) of the SharePoint site from Visual Studio. By default, it doesn’t do ... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Asynchronous Query Pattern for Client Object Model

In the SharePoint 2010: Getting Started With Client Object Model blog post, we built a simple SharePoint console application using Client OM. We queried synchronously which is good for simple operations, but you would like to query asynchronously too if you intend to have more queries to the SharePo... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Getting Started With Client Object Model

Along with the Server Object Model, SharePoint 2010 introduces new set of API called Client Object Model Refer to my blog post SharePoint 2010: Introducing the Client Object Model to get to know more about Client Object Model. The Client Object Model (OM) is a new programming interface for SharePo... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Media Web Part

Here is another cool new web part added to SharePoint 2010 – The Audio & Video Web Part [ a.k.a Media Web Part ] The Media Web Part is a Silverlight Control. Once you edit the page, its available from the Insert tab in the SharePoint Ribbon. This will add the Media Web Part to the pag... [More]

SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Apps

One of the coolest things in SharePoint ever to happen is the Integration of Office Web Apps right into SharePoint 2010! You can now view/edit Office documents in the browser itself from SharePoint. Here is a document library with some docs: Clicking on the FY10 Sales Plan is going to take me t... [More]

SharePoint 2010 Development HOLs

For the past few weeks, I was very busy doing some ‘secret stuff’ at Intergen. But its no longer a secret! :) Download the SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands on Labs (http://bit.ly/sp2010_hols) Below is a list of HOLs available: HOL01 - Developi... [More]

SharePoint 2010: InfoPath Form Web Part

One thing I quite like in SharePoint 2010 is the new InfoPath Form Web Part! You guessed it right! You can now directly insert InfoPath forms in a SharePoint page using this web part! Once your form is published to the site, it is available to choose for this InfoPath web part. And here is ... [More]

SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services Walkthrough

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 provides new ways to connect and integrate with external data in SharePoint. Business Connectivity services also allows users to create external content types, external lists based on the external data. This opens up a new dimension on how you ... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – Content Driven User Controls

In our previous post, we saw how to build user controls and reference the same from our Home Page layout. In this post lets see how we can retrieve the Latest News from a SharePoint List rather than static HTML code. Latest News Jet30 publishes their latest news daily and wishes to show them in th... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – Building User Controls

In our previous post, we saw how to build a Page Layout for our Jet30 site. Today we will see how to build user controls. We will dissect some of the parts of the Home Page and build them as user controls. So, for those who don’t remember our Home Page, below is a screenshot: And weeks bac... [More]

SharePoint WCM – Breaking the Ice – Building the Home Page Layout

In our previous post, we saw how to build a SharePoint Master Page with custom branding. Let us now build a Page Layout. A page layout defines various components in a page – web parts or field controls or static content etc., MSDN describes the relationship between a master page & page la... [More]

SharePoint Guidance: Developing SharePoint Applications

The patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance team have just released a new Guidance for Developing SharePoint Applications. Whether you are a newbie or an intermediate or an experienced SharePoint developer, this guide is going to help you improve your SharePoint development skills. Many people ... [More]