Corey Roth

At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online.  I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today.  To query people search, we have to know a few things about how SharePoint operates.  It all starts with understanding the scopes involved.  If you take a look at your Search Scopes link in your site collection settings, you’ll see a similar list to the one below. What’s funny here is that SPO actually returns item counts for the entire (non-partitioned index).  This tells me that there are 205,000 items and 96,000 people on my particular Office 365 SharePoint host. Ultimately, querying people search is just a matter of executing a query against the scope People, but there are a few catches.  In SharePoint 2007, you could actually exe... (more)

Building a SharePoint Advanced Search Application with Silverlight 4

At SharePoint Conference 2011, I showed off a great looking advanced search application using Silverlight 4.  This application queried the Search web service at /_vti_bin/search.asmx to retrieve results and display them directly inside the application.  A couple of years ago, I demonstrated how to build an advanced search application with Silverlight 3.  This application is very similar to that one except that I take it a step further and show you more of the possibilities of what the user interface could look like. The code you will see today was intended for Office 365 / Share... (more)

Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

Visual Studio 2010 makes it really easy to add and deploy solutions when you are developing, but you may eventually want to deploy those solution packages elsewhere right?  We can still use stsadm, but that is effectively considered deprecated now in favor of PowerShell.  In the past to add a solution, we used an stsadm command like the one below.  In today’s example, we’ll be working with a package called SharePointProject2.wsp on my server named sp2010. stsadm –o addsolution –name SharePointProject2.wsp To get started with PowerShell, run the SharePoint 2010 Management Console ... (more)

Slides from my Visual Studio 11 talk at SharePoint Saturday Houston

I survived another SharePoint Saturday in Houston this weekend and had a great time.  It was fun seeing old friends and making some new ones as well.  As promised, here is a link to my slide deck posted on SlideShare.  Thanks again to Victor and all of the volunteers and sponsors who made it possible. New SharePoint Development features with Visual Studio 11 ... (more)

My simple PowerShell script for finding those troublesome Correlation IDs

ULS Viewer works great for finding Correlation IDs but once you start dealing with large farms, I find PowerShell works much better.  A Correlation ID is great but it doesn’t do you any good if you can’t find it in the logs.  I put this script together through the help of posts from Wictor and others.  Using Get-SPLogEvent you can find pretty much anything you need in the logs, but without the right parameters it can run very slowly.  I’ve seen some scripts try to filter Get-SPLogEvent using a | but performs the filtering after it retrieves everything from the database.  The key ... (more)