I was working on some code today when I had a bit of an unusual problem. I had a SearchServiceApplicationProxy and I wanted to find out all of the web applications that were using it. There were a few different routes I could take, most of them which would require churning through some number of…
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Determine if a SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application is FAST Search or SharePoint Search
One of the things that may be useful to know when you are writing custom search applications for SharePoint 2010 is whether the search service application you are working with is FAST Search for SharePoint or SharePoint Search. Fortunately the object model provides a fairly straightforward way to do this once you know where to…
Customizing Search Results in SharePoint 2010
Hey all, just wanted to give you a heads up about a webcast I’ll be doing on MSDN in February. It is titled Customizing Search Results for SharePoint Server 2010. Here is the link to find out more info and register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032438730&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US. The event will be on February 16th, 2010 at 1PM Pacific time. Swing…
Playing with Large List Throttling
If you've followed my blog entries by now then you've seen quite a bit of information on throttling for large lists in SharePoint 2010. One of the things you may find is that you will have scenarios where you want to be able to toggle the enforcement of the throttling on a list by list…
File Not Found Error with SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
Hey folks, I've had this happen to me a couple of times and it's driven me a little crazy figuring out what was going on. You may use Visual Studio 2010 to create a new SharePoint 2010 application. You do something innocuous like using (SPSite theSite = new SPSite(myUrl)) and when the code executes, you…
SharePoint 2010 Training Courses on Channel 9
And now a message from our sponsors… Today, Channel 9 launched two new training courses for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 created by developers for developers. Channel 9 has always been about giving direct access to the engineers and future technologies from Microsoft, and now we’re extending this successful formula to bring you training that will…
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 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 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…