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Connecting to SharePoint Online Web Services
Last week we released Remote Authentication in SharePoint Online Using Claims Based Authentication,...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 05/12/2011
Just Published: Apr 16-29 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
This time, here’s some post-weekend reading about SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2010. SDK and...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 05/10/2011
Using LINQ-to-SharePoint with Choice Fields (Ricky Kirkham)
If you like to use the LINQ to SharePoint provider to perform your SharePoint data queries in...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 05/03/2011
Incrementing the feature version through MSBuild (Phil Hoff)
If you are using TeamBuild or MSBuild to build SharePoint projects, you can automatically increment...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/28/2011
New SharePoint 2010 SDK Available for Download: Now Includes SharePoint Online!
Hello folks! The SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) has been updated with new...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/25/2011
Just Published: Apr. 1- 15 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
More weekend reading! This time, there is content about SharePoint Online for Office 365,...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/22/2011
How to get the package name or other names of SharePoint items (Phil Hoff)
You can use replaceable parameters inside project files to provide values, such as SharePoint...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/21/2011
Announcing SharePoint Stack Exchange
For the SharePoint enthusiasts that like stackoverflow, there is now a SharePoint specific site...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/19/2011
Using the JavaScript Object Model in a Content Editor Web Part (Kumar Abhishek Verma)
Much has been written about how to use the new ECMAScript class library to do useful things in...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/14/2011
Reducing the amount of markup in ASCX files
If you are using the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools and you are adding many controls to...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/14/2011
New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course
Paul Stubbs has announced the release of a new SharePoint and Silverlight training course. You can...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 04/12/2011
Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)
Sridhar Raghunathan, an escalation engineering here on the SharePoint team, has an interesting post...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 03/29/2011
Some Read/Write Properties are Read-Only in Sandboxed Solutions (Ricky Kirkham)
I learned today that some properties of the SPSite, SPWeb, and SPUser classes that are read/write in...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 03/17/2011
Just Published: Feb. 14-Mar. 7 | 2010 SharePoint Dev content (Beck Andros)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Content Technical Articles · Defining Associations in Business...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 03/08/2011
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Presentation (Mike Morton)
Hi, Mike Morton here! I am a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team and I help create the Visual...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 03/03/2011
Exciting Job Opportunity on the SharePoint MSDN team! (Randall Isenhour)
Do you have what it takes to be a part of the MSDN content publishing team for SharePoint?We are...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 03/02/2011
New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)
MSDN has published a long technical article of mine on SharePoint Architecture. I should actually...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/24/2011
Calling a WCF Service using jQuery in SharePoint (Anweshi Deverasetty)
This blog post explains how a WCF service can be called using jQuery in a SharePoint application. I...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/22/2011
Using RefreshCommandUI with the Server Ribbon (Dallas Tester, Fred Mameri)
Wictor Wilen, one of our MVPs, asked for some illumination around the RefreshCommandUI function in...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/17/2011
MSDN Presents: SharePoint – Our team is coming to a city near you in March! (Beth Massi)
The Visual Studio BizApps team has joined forces with the awesome developer evangelists in the West...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/16/2011
Creating a Web Part with Client-side Scripts (Anweshi Deverasetty)
Hi again, this is Anweshi Deverasetty with a new blog post. You might have read my recent blog post...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/15/2011
A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)
In this article, we will see how to design a SharePoint BCS entity from a SQL stored procedure that...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/10/2011
Error: "The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request" (Ricky Kirkham)
Some developers are getting this error whenever they try to use a sandboxed solution, or sometimes...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/08/2011
Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)
Hi Everyone, I am Anweshi Deverasetty. I have been working as an Associate Consultant in Microsoft...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/03/2011
F1 or F2? Getting Help to End Users (Mary Lee)
Have you ever seen that Far Side comic where there’s a guy yelling for help, and he’s...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 02/01/2011
Loading Script in SharePoint 2010 (Dallas Tester)
SharePoint 2010 ships with a large EcmaScript-based object model. In order to alleviate downloading...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/27/2011
Recent SharePoint Developer Content (Mary Lee)
You can visit the SharePoint Developer Center to learn about the latest SharePoint developer content...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/25/2011
Learning Resources for SharePoint Sandboxed Solutions (Ricky Kirkham)
There is now a Developer Resource Center for SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions, so I’m...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/21/2011
Why do my new list fields not appear on the New, Edit, or Display forms? (Ricky Kirkham)
The question in the title comes up so often, I suspect that everyone who creates a new list type for...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/20/2011
Enabling sorting in a JS Grid control (Sivaraman Krishnan)
This how-to demonstrates how to enable sorting on a basic JS Grid control. This how-to builds on the...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/18/2011
Using the Dialog Platform (Dallas Tester)
The dialog platform was introduced in SharePoint 2010 as a way to keep users in context when working...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/13/2011
Multi-language support for SharePoint Sites (Mary Lee)
SharePoint 2010 supports multiple languages per site, and you can check that the site template...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/11/2011
New SharePoint Developer Features in VS2010 SP1 – Unit Testing and IntelliTrace (Saaid Khan)
We recently released Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta and SharePoint developers will be excited to know...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 01/06/2011
Providing Feedback about the SharePoint Developer Documentation (Uma Subramanian)
I'm a Content Publishing Manager at Microsoft responsible for the SharePoint Foundation 2010 and...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/23/2010
Creating Connectable Web Parts (Mary Lee)
You can easily create connections between web parts in SharePoint Foundation, and the Walkthrough:...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/21/2010
Importing a SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflow with InfoPath Task Forms to Visual Studio 2010 (Huma Qureshi)
SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflows are declarative i-e they have no code and the entire workflow is...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/16/2010
Importing a SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflow with Initiation/Association InfoPath forms to Visual Studio 2010 (Huma Qureshi)
SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflows are declarative, i-e they have no code and the entire workflow...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/14/2010
Tokenization in the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon (Dallas Tester)
There has been a lot of talk about tokenization behavior with regards to the Server ribbon in...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/09/2010
Welcome to the SharePoint Development Team Blog
I’m Andrew May, a programmer-writer on the SharePoint developer documentation team. If...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 12/01/2010
New Visual Upgrade Article (Jim Crowley)
Those of you who are interested in learning more about how to use Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 11/30/2010
Activity Event Sample on Code Gallery: How to Publish Events with a Timer Job (Jim Crowley)
The SharePoint Server 2010 social data object model enables you to create your own activity types...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 11/23/2010
SharePoint Client Object Model Redistributable Released (Ricky Kirkham)
Microsoft has released the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable. The...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 11/18/2010
Quick Tip: Find the Four-Part Name for an Assembly (Dallas Tester)
When developing for SharePoint, you sometimes need to find the four-part name for an assembly. You...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 11/16/2010
Introducing the Published Intranet Solution Center (Jim Crowley)
The SharePoint 2010 Published Intranet Solution Center has just launched on TechNet. A TechNet...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 11/09/2010
Walkthrough of creating associations between SharePoint BDC entities using Visual Studio 2010 (Yanchen Wu)
Up till now, we have published two blogs in this series about SharePoint 2010 external list,...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 08/02/2010
Extending the SharePoint Tools in Visual Studio: An Overview (McLean Schofield)
Since you’re reading this blog, you’re probably aware that Visual Studio 2010 includes...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 07/08/2010