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There is a new blog called SharePoint in Pictures that illustrates the platform and architecture of SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.  The blog is to be updated on a weekly basis with new diagrams, so feel free to check it out and leave feedback about what you’d like to see...

Nearly all of the tools for SharePoint development included in Visual Studio 2010 are new, so learning about them and finding help and information can be a challenge. To help you in this quest, I’ve compiled a list of links to helpful resources, including product documentation, web sites, forums...

When deploying a BDC model in Visual Studio 2010, some people may see this error message “… There is no default Business Data Connectivity Service Proxy available for the given SPServiceContext …” or similar ones. This probably means the SiteUrl feature property is not appropriately set. SiteUrl is a...

Content type, document and a library In this series of posts I will show you how to create a content type project, deploy a Word document template together with the content type, and then associate the content type with document library on the SharePoint site. When developing content types, one common...

In our previous blog post of this series Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta , we introduced how to create a simple “Hello world” external list in SharePoint 2010 Beta using Business Data Connectivity Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta. In this blog...

There are a bunch of SharePoint features in Visual Studio 2010. You may have already heard about them from reading the blog Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 or by other means. Today I want to introduce one of them, Business Data Connectivity (BDC) designer, which is available...

In SharePoint 2007, Application Pages would inherit from Application Master deployed to Layouts folder. The Site Pages would inherit from a different Site Master deployed to SharePoint Content database. Since there was no way for application pages to inherit from the same master as that of the site pages...

With Microsoft’s introduction of the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools and its continually growing support for team development, the SharePoint Developer Tools team has published an MSDN article on how to configure your Team Foundation Build server(s) to support both the building of Visual...

We are very excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 on April 12 th .  This represents the biggest tools release from Microsoft in many years. As mentioned in Somasegar’s recent blog post , the new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new...

Business Connectivity Services (BCS), one of the key components of SharePoint 2010, helps you to access external line-of-business (LOB) data. The SharePoint team posted a blog entry which demonstrates how to create your first BDC (Business Data Connectivity) model using Visual Studio 2010. As indicated...

A SharePoint Content Type project allows the user to create a content type based on the built-in SharePoint content types. But what about situations where one would want to re-use a built-in field(s) in SharePoint? One way to do this is to use the "Import SharePoint Solution Package" project. This article...

As a SharePoint developer, you’ve probably heard of VSeWSS (Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services). A co-worker wrote this post which is an example of how to use VSeWSS to implement a SharePoint solution. I’d like to take that example and show you how adapt it to use the new Visual...

With Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools, the concept of the Mapped Folder was introduced. A mapped folder is a convenient way for developers to specify a location for any files that need to be deployed on to the SharePoint file system, all from within in a Visual Studio solution. Mapped folders...

In this blog post I’ll walk you through how easy it is to publish Silverlight applications to SharePoint 2010 by using the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint development. This walkthrough requires: a local installation of either SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010, Silverlight 3...

If a SharePoint site definition project is created in English (ENU) version of Visual Studio 2010 and deployed on Arabic – Saudi Arabia (Ar-Sa) SharePoint, the template does not show up in SharePoint when you navigate to the site creation page. The template file is deployed to the folder corresponding...

In this example I am going to show you how to use list item event receiver and how to redirect users to error page if something goes wrong. We have a list of contacts and we want to display an error message if the entered zip code doesn't a specific value. For this example I am using zip code 98052....

The Visual Studio Team has been releasing a series of Channel 9 interviews and demos on the new SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010. Please check them out and give us your feedback! Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP...

Public beta release of SharePoint Server 2010 was announced today at PDC. This is great news for SharePoint developers because you can start using Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 to develop against SharePoint Server 2010. You can download SharePoint Server 2010 here .