Last week Vivek Narasimhan (Product Marketing Manager for Office and SharePoint) announced the app contest in the official Apps for Office and SharePoint Blog for developers. The app contest? Yes! The app contest is open to developers who have a...

On July 16 th 2012 Steve Ballmer unveiled the new, modern Office with exciting support for developers. In this release, Office aligns with Windows 8, offering the best tools and platform to help you build the applications and solutions that you have in...

A couple of months ago, we posted a few articles introducing some of the new features of the SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 2012. Hopefully, you have had a chance to use these new features and have found them useful. If you haven’t had a...

Introduction As a consultant for Microsoft Global Delivery, I recently worked with a Customer who asked for continued use of the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (known as the Fab 40 templates) in their Office 365, SharePoint...

In this post, you learn how to hide the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 by using JavaScript. About the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 The SharePoint 2010 ribbon provides a similar user experience as the Microsoft Office client products. The ribbon is a toolbar which...

In the Part I of this series, we were pleased to announce the SharePoint List Designer as one of the new features introduced in Visual Studio 11 Beta. Using the List Designer, you can quickly and visually build a SharePoint list within Visual Studio without having to create a list first in SharePoint Designer and then import it into Visual Studio.

To familiarize you with the List Designer, in Part I of this series, we provided a link to a MSDN Help topic that walks you through the process of creating a list and a content type by using the List Designer. If you’ve used the List Designer, you might want more details about its functionality. This blog post provides more information about it.  

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Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Refer here for more information on the managed metadata in SharePoint 2010. A column...

Problem Statement Many SharePoint projects and solutions need client-side JavaScript for performing activities, from displaying an alert statement to performing data validation activities. The advantage of doing many of these activities in the client...

Part 1 of this series on SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta summarized all of the new features. This article focuses more on the features that support building remote SharePoint Online solutions and provides an overview of the new tool...

In the previous post in this series, we showed how to deploy WSPs as part of an automated build process. This knowledge is useful for supporting deployment testing, but most people agree that the real point of Continuous Integration is to support automated...

The figure below is a syntax diagram detailing how to construct URIs for the Excel Services REST API. For more information on using the Excel Service REST interface, take a look at the SharePoint 2010 SDK topics located here . And developer Shahar Prish...

Visual Studio 11 Beta introduces a new set of features and enhances existing features in the SharePoint Developer Tools for SharePoint 2010, helping you increase your SharePoint development productivity. You may have tried some of these new features in...

The Microsoft Office Developer Center has created 101 code samples for SharePoint 2010. These samples cover a wide range of useful tasks from working with lists and document libraries, to using BCS. The C# samples, in most cases, have a companion VB.NET...

Summary: See how to retrieve the site collection URL at run time when using a timer job for deployment. In real word scenarios, a common requirement while using timer jobs is to deploy the job in such a way that it runs on only one machine in the farm...

The figure below is a syntax diagram of the structure of SharePoint Foundation REST service URIs. You can read more about the SharePoint Foundation REST service here . Syntax diagrams are a useful way of illustrating linear data structures. Things like...

This post describes how to update ODC files programmatically by using either a SharePoint feature or a console application written in .Net code, or with a PowerShell script. The contents pertain to: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft SharePoint...

Today’s diagram is probably best considered a work in progress. We created the following diagram as a prototype, to see if we could use large-scale static graphics as aids for developers to visualize the SharePoint object model hierarchy and the relationships...

XML files are often used as input to search engines. The article Custom XML Item Processing describes one way of indexing XML content for FAST Search Server 2010. Another option is to create a custom XML indexing connector. This option: Selects and creates...

Ribbon customizations, deployed as custom actions, in SharePoint 2010 can be categorized in two ways: filtered and unfiltered. A filtered custom action is one that uses the RegistrationId and RegistrationType attributes, for example to target a specific...

Excel Services is part of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Excel Services is built on ASP.NET and SharePoint Foundation technologies. Following are the core components in Excel Services: · Excel Web Access · Excel Web Services · User-defined functions...

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables users to read and write data from external systems—through Web services, databases, and Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies—from within Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications...

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is included in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft Office 2010 applications. However, the feature set and the capabilities differ in each application. The...

As a SharePoint developer, you very likely already know about the Excel Services JavaScript API available to you in SharePoint 2010. You use this API to automate, customize, and interact with the Excel Web Access Web Part control on a page. By using the...

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables users to read and write data from external systems—through Web services, databases, and Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies—from within Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications...

Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define and then use as attributes for items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Managed terms can act as sources of data for columns in libraries or lists. To manage...