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…
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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…
SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 2 – The Rules Engine
The Content Organizer rules are really the heart that drives the content organizer system. The rules list is just a standard SharePoint list that uses the custom Rule content type. Each rule contains all of the criteria used to determine where new items should be uploaded. Rules provide a wide array of configuration options to…
SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 3 – The Drop Off Library
As described in the first post in this series, the Drop Off Library is created when you activate the Content Organizer feature. As soon as you configure the Content Organizer to start routing documents (which, actually it does when you activate the feature), all uploads to the site are automatically sent to the Drop Off…
Using the New SharePoint 2010 Ratings Feature in Search
In this blog I thought I’d show how to use some of the cool new features in SharePoint 2010 with some of our old favorites from SharePoint 2007 to create an interesting search results experience. We’re going to do all of this WITHOUT WRITING ANY CODE! Even though Steve is a developer, he empathizes with…