Hopefully folks are starting to get some use out of the multitude of SharePoint 2010 postings I’ve been tossing up here. This is a new one that I was a little hesitant to put together…given my history in SharePoint 2007 I don’t want to become typecast but…in this post I’ll give a quick walk through…
SharePoint 2010 Developer Events for December, 2009
Hey folks, there is going to be a couple of SharePoint 2010 developer events in the Florida area in December. They are going to be managed / taught by Paul Stubbs, who is doing a lot of our internal SharePoint development training work. The events are going to be December 3rd in Ft. Lauderdale and…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 1
SharePoint 2010 introduces a new client side object model (hereafter referred to as the “client OM”) for retrieving data. It supports a subset of functionality contained in the server side object model, but generally speaking gives you ready access to the data in your SharePoint site using standard object model nomenclature. Before I actually get…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 2
In part 1 of this post, I described some general features of the new client object model (“client OM”) that is included with SharePoint 2010. I also walked through a pattern for retrieving a collection of all of the lists in a web using that object model. In this posting, we’ll extend our example further…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 3
In the first two parts of this posting I described the pattern you can use to retrieve data with the client object model (“client OM”). I showed how to use the same pattern to retrieve both a set of lists, as well as data contained within a single list. In this post we’ll talk about…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 4
In the first three parts of this series we’ve gone through quite a bit of code that shows how to retrieve data from lists. In this post, we’re going to show how to actually create a list and manage fields. In the client object model you’ll see a familiar naming pattern of “someobjectCreationInformation” used to…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 5
The previous posts in this series have been pretty list-centric. In this posting we’re going to delve down a different path in exploring the client object model and talk about security. The client OM actually provides great support for working with the security model in SharePoint. You can do everything from getting a list of…
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – Part 6
Time to wrap up this series and we’re going to mostly talk about managing web parts using the client object model. First, however, we’re going to take a quick peek at something else you can do, which is create additional Edit Control Block (ECB) menu items. Yes, you can even create ECB items from the…
Publish and Subscribe to Content Types in SharePoint 2010
Content Type Syndication is new feature that is part of the Managed Metdata service in SharePoint 2010. It solves a long-standing problem from SharePoint 2007, which is how do I create an enterprise library of content types and synchronize them amongst many different site collections. We often had to design and build solutions to work…
SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 1 – A Cool New Feature for Managing Your Content
The Content Organizer feature is a new routing feature that extends, enhances, and makes more broadly available the routing engine used in the Records Center site template from SharePoint 2007. It not only allows you to automatically route documents to different libraries and folders within those libraries, it can also be used for mundane housekeeping…