SharePoint Code Section Index

SharePoint 2010 introduces external content type. Tapas Pal shows you how to create external lists, which can be downloaded offline into an application, using SharePoint's web user interface.

Visual Studio 2010 introduced Visual Web Part template as one of its new features to deploy on the SharePoint Server. Tapas Pal shows you how to create a sample Web Part, ready for deployment in SharePoint Server.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides project types that support the creation and deployment of SharePoint content types. Tapas Pal shows you how to develop and deploy a sample application using the available option at the SharePoint Site or by using Client/Server Object models.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

To develop web parts that are easy to use, easy to upgrade, and secure, you'll want to keep these best practices in mind.

With the SharePoint object model and a little code, you can easily retrieve custom list item attachments and save them for other purposes.

When you just need to send a quick email from SharePoint with no attachments, SPUtility.SendEmail does the job.

Find out how to avoid common language-centric problems when writing code for multilingual sites.

Not all site objects are equivalent. Find out how to make sure SPSite objects you create refer to the correct zone.

With a little JavaScript, you can hide SharePoint's left-hand Quick Launch Bar menu without requiring a postback or using any server-side code.

Although you should generally avoid running inline code in SharePoint, and the feature is turned off by default, it's sometimes convenient to enable it for testing purposes.

Use Web parts to customize your SharePoint pages

SharePoint's Web Part lifecycle and handling sequence is critical when dealing with custom Web Parts that have multiple connections.

If you’ve ever tried to use item-level permissions in SharePoint—and then watched your response times slow down dramatically—you'll appreciate this trick.

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

See how combining SharePoint 2007's API and an Object Model allows for greater program functionality.

Learn how to package and deploy SharePoint 2007 Solutions through the cabinet-based .wsp file.Through it, you can distribute customizable components including WebParts, templates, and assemblies.

SharePoint Solutions is a bona fide option to deploy customizations into SharePoint 2007. Learn the diverse ways of implementing Solutions, applying the administration tools of SharePoint, and utilizing the Web interface.

Learn how to get the most out of the tight integration between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and the ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart framework by writing custom WebParts.

Leverage the SharePoint SDK classes to build a newsletter generator that collects all the changes to a site and presents them to users in an email newsletter format.