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Visio Services lets users share and view Visio Web drawings. Access Services, when used with SharePoint 2010, allows users to create new databases with forms and reports that run in the browser. In this article we will discuss Access and Visio services, as they have a strong appeal to developers who wish to be able to offer a hosted browser-based version of their app.

SharePoint 2010 opens up a new horizon by providing a flexible platform in exposing Business Intelligence functionality to the user. In this article we will dive into four such features--Visio Services, Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, and PowerPivot--and see what they are up to as they handle the important business decisions of an organization.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 now makes it easier for developers to work together. We have seen some major enhancement of SharePoint 2010 in comparison with its 2007 counterpart. Here I delineate major 10 of them which in my opinion increase developer’s productivity and efficiency.

Although you may purchase or develop your own Web Parts to meet a specific need in your organization, SharePoint provides many Web Parts out of the box. This article explores some of the built in Web Parts that you should get to know.

If you are using SharePoint 2010 for more than document management then chances are you have needed to customize it to suit your business needs. Rob Wilson shares his top 7 favorite SharePoint 2010 customization tools.

SharePoint 2010 provides a new level of integration between standard SharePoint list forms and InfoPath, enabling SharePoint 2010 developers to create very strong data entry screens. This introduces a new wrinkle in the software development life cycle. Read on t learn about it and how to solve it.

SharePoint 2007 saw a rise in the number of open source projects to fill in the gaps of what is not offered out of the box. Rob Wilson shares the top 7 CodePlex tools to help you get more out of SharePoint 2010.

It seems that much of the talk about sandboxed solutions (at least early on) focused on their limitations and not on their potential. With cloud talk becoming more prominent, sandboxed solutions are being seen in a different light. Rob Wilson shares a few things about sandboxed solutions that might make them the best solution for you.

Sandboxed solutions allow SharePoint developers to write solutions that can be easily deployed and executed in a shared hosting environment. Rob Wilson explores some limitation you should consider before you jump in and start developing sandboxed solutions.

Joe Mack shows you how to use jQuery within SharePoint by encapsulating the JavaScript code into a document.ready event.

This first article of our new series, “SharePoint Admin Corner”, discusses which service accounts you need to include when installing a new SharePoint farm.

"Sharepoint Tools You Can Use" is a new series in which we will introduce you to one SharePoint tool per month. This month’s article focuses on CKEditor, a WYSIWYG editor that runs within web pages.

Learn how to quickly create a SharePoint blog site and publish blog posts with rich content using MS Word 2010.

Learn about the much improved Exchange Online which is part of Microsoft's upcoming Office 365 offering.

Arguably one of the most popular products produced by Microsoft, SharePoint has taken business computing by storm from the small business to the enterprise. Amid SharePoint's popularity, there are still those who are on the fence with SharePoint. If that is you, here are ten reasons you should consider SharePoint 2010 as a development platform.

Learn how to easily load the jQuery library as a feature in SharePoint 2010 and 2007.

The new Status bar in SharePoint 2010 is helpful in showing important information to the user in a more prominent way.

SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2010 are highly productive because of their integration with Microsoft Office products.

In SharePoint 2010, each document can get a unique ID that, regardless of its location, remains the same.

This article describes how to use jQuery and a custom list to implement this solution.

One of the nice little features of the latest version of SharePoint is that you can quickly create themes for SharePoint 2010 by using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

One of the great additions to SharePoint 2010 is that of Managed Metadata. Apart from other usages you can easily use metadata to navigate and filter documents inside the document library.

One tip: Developers should create actual coding samples in a self-hosted SharePoint environment.

Lingotek brings language translation capabilities to Microsoft's SharePoint.

Adding users is relatively straightforward. However, determining the permissions that should be granted to each user on a per item basis requires understanding and planning.

Watch and learn as we explore the Site Workflow feature of SharePoint 2010.

The U.S. economy is hardly a shining light these days, but SharePoint skills remain in demand and the market is driving something of a SharePoint feeding frenzy.

We highlight how to use the out-of-the-box SharePoint Web part to build compelling Web-based dashboards.

Although true business intelligence reporting remains the province of the BI specialist, SharePoint 2010 lowers the bar and makes it far easier for us mere SharePoint geeks to create some very interesting business intelligence solutions.

Charting is one of the one of most common requirements while working on SharePoint projects.

This tip describes a strategy and some techniques that you can leverage to create an appropriate "print this page" function.

Learn how to quickly create a theme using Word 2010 and then import and apply it to SharePoint 2010 sites.

We show some of the great script-based tools we can use to build great user experiences in SharePoint 2010.

The broken-link issue is resolved by the introduction of Document ID functionality.

We try to overcome some anomalies that are revealed when we move an InfoPath document to the SharePoint Records Center.

If you deploy any system for content management without structure you could be in trouble at discovery time, one expert says.

In this tutorial, we set up a simple one-step approval for a form and move it to a Records Center.

Joe Mack shows how to develop and deploy a custom WCF service and use it as a secondary data source for our InfoPath form.

Our SharePoint expert covers a scenario where a business would like to collect and maintain some information about their customers.

SharePoint forces us to think creatively to comprehensively solve the CRUD problem.

What's causing a security patch for Microsoft's SharePoint Server 3.0 to crash on installation?

The software giant demonstrates integration between Outlook, social networking features, Excel, and SQL Server.

The reception among customers seems favorable so far, although more of them may be postponing upgrades to SharePoint than they did three years ago.

This article offers a path that will lead you to ever increasing levels of technical and functional depth with this multi-faceted product.

The conference kicks off Sunday in New Orleans and focuses on Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, SharePoint, cloud computing, and more.

Fashion a one-click company directory that always returns up-to-the-minute department member information.

Many sets of database sites are dedicated to Access 2010.

This morning’s launch webcast -- which was conducted in 66 countries and was powered by Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 -- was not without glitches.

This article is taken from the book SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action. Learn how SharePoint 2010 has added web standards compliancy.

Content Type Hubs allows you to create new content types and then make them available to other SharePoint site collections in the same or different web applications.

SharePoint and Office 2010 are due in a few weeks, and all the marketing has created opportunities for much smaller vendors.

Topics in the update include collaboration, user management, and web page creation.

Not only is it good at aggregating data, but you can exert a great deal of creative control over how it renders its results.

Learn how to use the event handler to make sure that a SharePoint "Task List" is automatically created.

Document Set, a new feature, makes it easy to contain and manage a pool of documents.

This may seem an odd removal, but it turns out that the spell check function doesn't work well for anonymous users.

Application developers finally get the full benefits of LINQ (Language Integrated Query) in SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint Designer is the must-use tool everyone loves to hate because it leaves us with certain difficult gaps to bridge for common business requirements. But it doesn't have to be that way.

SharePoint enables us to override OK and Cancel button behavior for both buttons, not just one.

Experience the richness and versatility of REST, or Representational State Transfer.

‘Evolutionary, not revolutionary,’ is the way one Forrester analyst described the update.

Forget about workflow, records management, and SP 2010. What people REALLY want to do with SharePoint is to create an image rotator.

The client-side approach not only removes the need of running the code on the server side, it also unleashes power to developers.

Microsoft Ribbon, also known as Ribbon Framework since its introduction in Office 2007, turns out to be a highly productive addition.

An event receiver in SharePoint allows great flexibility to meet various user requirements.

A welcome addition in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to back up and restore individual Libraries and Lists.

This tip shows how you can leverage SharePoint’s item level permission functionality.

So we're not insensitive to your needs, this article walks you through the process.

SharePoint 2010 now provides events for the Lists, an expected and welcome update.

The result of this tip is that users and groups are available to be selected in custom lists without any development.

Why you need to be developing all your custom code within the feature framework and deploying these as WSP (WSS Solution Package) files.

This article shows the implementation for permissions by using SharePoint Object Model.

Every organization has its own policies and practices for IT security and governance, and when SharePoint comes into the picture, managing and applying those policies become even more important.

Use the SPWebProvisioningProvider class to add custom logic to your site creation tasks.

Suggestion boxes are useful tools for a business practice that wants to be sensitive to the needs and desires of its staff or clients. SharePoint features support allowing individuals to provide feedback and facilitate discussion on various topics while maintaining confidentiality.