There are quite a few articles that talks about implementing a contextual ribbon button that does a post back in SharePoint 2010.  But despite quite a few tries, I’ve not been able to get hold of a complete walk-through on it.  I am posting this one which I got working recently.  Note...

If you are interested (as I was) to know what happens behind the scenes in a SharePoint 2010 Service Application, there’s a very neat way to do this.  I had a specific scenario where I had to understand what happens in the back-end of BCS service application I provisioned, so I’ll use that example...

I had to write up an internal article on creating custom service applications and making it work with SharePoint 2010. This was not an easy joke at all and is pretty involved process. I used the sample walk-through provided in Service Application Framework Sample . This would a very good reference if...

There are 2 ways to upload files to SharePoint 2010 document libraries using managed client object model. The first method uses a client library batch mechanism.  It will encode the binary using BASE64 encoding, which could increase the message size by one third.  There might be problems if...

Check out previous posts on the same topic: Part1 Part2 Case where an external content type created did not show up in the external content type picker control.  This case was amazing as we (me and the customer) found the cause while on call! The problem statement was simple! We create an external...

In Part1 , I covered a specific scenario related to viewing external list and BDC throttling settings.  In this post, I’ll cover a similar specific scenario but related to authentication. When we create an external content type using SPD2010, the screen where we specify the data source information...

Wow! LINQ to SharePoint 2010 is awesome! You have to work with it to see how it simplifies development tasks.  I especially love the ability to see what underlying CAML that’s generated on the fly and passed to the server for execution.  With LINQ to SharePoint, I believe, we need to have our...

It’s been a while I updated my blog posts!  Have been quite busy with SharePoint 2010 and the splendid new things it has to offer.  I realized I’ll take a crack at SharePoint 2010 starting with the several learning opportunities available publicly for SharePoint Developers.  I know it...