Recently I wanted to manage a central set of document templates associated with content types across a number of site collections. We also wanted to look at using content type syndication with content types that have a document template applied. Document...

I'm attaching a presentation and code for developing an assembly connector for SharePoint 2010 BCS. I plan to do a series of blogs about different elements of the solution, but wanted to get this posted for those that attended my talk. It illustrates...

Home Realm Discovery is a process to select the trusted identity provider in a federated claims scenario where there is more than one provider that can authenticate users. The default experience is to have the user select which claims provider to use...

The SharePoint Guidance library introduces several components that can be challenging to ramp up on if you aren't familar with some SharePoint and design concepts like dependency injection. A great set of HOL's have been released as a step by step walk...

The SharePointServiceLocator in the patterns and practices SharePoint library implements a dependency injection pattern for decoupling service providers from service consumers. It achieves this by mapping an interface to an implementing class. The consumer...

Creating the timer job Sometimes you need to deploy settings to every web front end, or have a piece of code execute on every web front end. Your choices in SharePoint are to either have an administrator run a script on each front end, or use a timer...

Updated : An even easier method to do this is to simply launch the debugger by adding a statement to the beginning of the method for Systems.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch. Thanks to the suggestion I received on the topic - I misplaced the email, so the...

We posted a PDF version of the patterns and practices guidance release, Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010. This guidance will really help you understand the architecture and development decisions for SharePoint 2010 custom application development...

You can add a page to central administration and add an entry to the central administration menu to manage application settings for the farm or web application. As I reviewed in my previous post, Using the Applications Setting Manager with Web App Config...

We got a recent post to our discussion forums about managing settings for a web application from a web part. I thought this would be a good opportunity to go into some more detail about some of the special handling required for Farm and web application...

I figured I'd do a quick blog on the error since it took me a little time to run down the problem when I received the following message running the VS 2010 debugger on the sandboxed appliction: Error activating type from sandboxed code assembly. The...

We are rolling right into scoping the next release of patterns and practices SharePoint guidance for SharePoint 2010. Now this is a little different than how pattners and practices typically works since we working in advance of a product release. There...

We've just released Developing SharePoint Applications ! Thanks to all of our advisors and a dedicated team for helping put together a packed release. The release contains some reusable bits, a new Partner Portal reference implementation, and a bunch...

Thanks for the feedback on my last post . I figured I'd write another post since this is an area we've thought about a lot. Sorry for the delayed response, I was out watching my nephews wrestle in their final championships all weekend....both did great...

I’ve been doing some work on aspects of application lifecycle management with our version 2 SharePoint guidance currently in development. In version 1 of our published guidance, we looked at some ALM aspects with managing code developed for SharePoint...

I think I must have set a record for the longest period of blog inactivity. Boy, could not believe its been since 2004, time sure does fly. I've been "meaning to" get back to blogging for a few years now, but you know what they say about good intentions...

I had a question on the source code for this sample. The link is in the article tucked near the top. Here it is too: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/c/2/3c2c3aee-d3de-4b9f-94db-a1580cd51da8/Code-TokenCache.msi This particular sample needs to...

I finally got an article on SCTs in a web farm live on MSDN. The sample code needs to be installed the the same directory as the WSE samples (default C:\Program Files\Microsoft WSE\v2.0\Samples\CS\QuickStart). There is an update that should be posted...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/sctinfarm.asp

Sorry I've been dark for a few weeks - I've been in the process of trying to get my blogs and sample code on SCT's in a web farm packaged up and released to MSDN. I hope to have it out there in a couple of weeks. I will be getting back into my blog next...

So far I've discussed using two techniques for using SCT's in a web farm, pinning and using a database as a caching mechanism. The third and final technique I'm going to cover is using a cookie-like approach of embedding the information in the extended...

OK, so here I am in my hotel room ready to rip off a really long blog entry to close out caching SCT’s in a database, and I can’t get to the internet. Go figure. I’ll have to wing where I left off from memory. Last discussion I reviewed serializing a...

Last entry I discussed how to extend the SCT manager, and MRUSecurityTokenCache to use a database to persist tokens to share SCT's across service instances within a web farm. I left the details of token serialization not implemented however. This blog...

Sorry I’ve gone dark for the last few days just as things were getting interesting and I had promised some code snippets. I decided to actually implement a solution using a distributed cache for SCT’s – I had implemented a proof-of-concept embedding state...

Most web developers are familiar with one way with maintaining state within a web farm from their ASP days...server affinity. This was really the only optional available before .NET other than writing your own distributed session management solution for...