Guidelines for Using the Object Model

This section of the SDK provides important guidelines to follow when writing code that uses the object model in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

• Getting Started with Customizing a SharePoint Web Site in Visual Studio .NET
• Determining Where to Build a Custom Application
• Establishing Site Context
• Registering and Importing Namespaces
• Forms of URL Strings
• Converting Date and Time Values
• Security Validation and Making Posts to Update Data
• Optimizing Code Performance
• Setting the Culture and Language
• Displaying ASP.NET Error Messages