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Greetings, SharePoint Developers!
We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0!
The April 2009 (1.5) Update is available both online and as a download.
> Download the MOSS SDK 1.5 <
> View the MOSS SDK 1.5 Documentation on MSDN <
> Download the WSS SDK 1.5 <
> View the WSS SDK 1.5 Documentation on MSDN <
Which SDK do I need to download?
If you are only writing code that utilizes the Windows SharePoint Services platform, you can download the WSS SDK. However, if you want the superset of all documentation and samples, you should install the MOSS SDK, and then you’ll get all the platform information as well. You don’t need to download both, but you will need to uninstall all previous versions before installing.
Note The SDK 1.5 downloads are full releases that include all previous tools and documentation.
What’s New in this release?
The SDK updates in 1.5 include:
- New version of the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool
- Bug fixes for field truncation issues and parameter limits.
· Updated documentation files:
What’s New in the MOSS SDK 1.5 Documentation
What’s New in the WSS SDK 1.5 Documentation
While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…
You can also update the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services. Here is the link to the latest CTP: Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP. The extensions were updated on 3/17/2009.
Don’t forget to download the user’s guide: version 1.1
Please keep sending us feedback!
We want to make sure you have all the information you expect to find in the SDK. Please reply to this blog entry with comments if you have a request. And don't forget to use the Community Content Wiki on MSDN to annotate the SDK documentation online with your own insights or additional code samples, remarks, etc. Just look toward the bottom of each page online or click the Add Content... button in the top-level menu on MSDN Library pages.
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We have compiled a list of best practices for everything from working with SharePoint Lists to disposing SharePoint Objects, from writing SQL syntax queries for relevant Search results to developing Workflow solutions. Also, you can quickly access the latest information from patterns & practices specific to SharePoint, all in a one-stop shop! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dd638301.aspx
Send us feedback about what else you'd like to see SharePoint Best Practices written for, and we will maintain this page as a living document of best practices guidance.
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The MVP Summit is in full force this week, and the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team would like to take a moment to recognize all the outstanding contributions our SharePoint MVPs have made to MSDN since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 shipped.
Here is a list of Visual How-to screencasts, book excerpts, and technical articles we have published with our Most Valuable Publishing partners! The list totals more than 50 pieces of content, with more lined up to publish in the coming months!
I look back over the past year, and I am saddened by the loss of a colleague and friend, Patrick Tisseghem. We all miss him.
MSDN Technical Articles
Technical Articles are one of our most popular content types on MSDN. They are usually scenario-based and walk people end-to-end through a typical developer task, sometimes in a 2- or 3-part article series.
Visual How-to Screencasts
A Visual How-to is a short (about 5 – 10 minute) screencast centered on a How-to task. There is a code sample, a video, an article explaining the code, and links to more information. We look forward to creating more of these in the future and getting more folks involved!
Book Excerpts
We have a way of publishing one or two chapters from several book publishers, including Microsoft Press and Wrox, among others.
Call for Content
Want to help contribute? Please post a comment to this entry or start following me on twitter: http://twitter.com/sharepointdev, where you can send direct messages.
Thanks again for all your contributions!
Randall
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I signed up for a twitter account last week under the alias @sharepointdev: http://twitter.com/sharepointdev.
The inspiration came from an NPR segment about companies using twitter to monitor tweets about their products or brands (e.g., Comcast). I thought about it a while and I came to the conclusion that this was an ideal way for me to monitor forum activity because I often don't have time to read and respond to MSDN Forum postings because of my busy schedule. But with only 140 characters, I can usually point people in the right direction and get them unstuck when they choose to write a post related to "SharePoint" or other keywords I search for and monitor. Having worked with the SharePoint product team for over 5 years, I am also in a unique position where I sometimes know just enough information about a wide variety of issues.
The Verdict
I was really happy with my first week on twitter and what I learned or helped people with. I picked up over 30 followers, and I even got looped into some conversations back and forth related to something that might have otherwise been a source of frustration (e.g., updates and patches) for some of the folks out there looking for help. I am thinking of twitter as an open forum where I can take the pulse of where SharePoint users are asking for guidance.
Here is an overview of where I pointed people over the course of the last week. I saw one issue come up twice (Excel Services), and overall I was able to answer several questions using existing resources on MSDN and TechNet:
All in all, I'm going to continue to monitor any tweets I come across that mention "sharepoint" or other keywords and tags (such as "bdc" or "authentication" or "web parts"), as well as the people I'm following. If you're a SharePoint developer, IT Pro, consultant, or solution provider, feel free to follow me and I'll do the same to keep tabs on what's going on out in the community. We've often got an answer or at least a direction we can point you toward. Also, check out my feed for what's recently been published! http://twitter.com/sharepointdev.
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Hello everyone.
We have just published a couple of exciting new SharePoint Technical Articles this month on MSDN. We have also refreshed the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK. Here is the info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc973103.aspx
Summary: Learn about organization hierarchy, membership groups, and quick links to understand the user profile social network capability in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and concepts such as custom properties, colleagues, and workgroups. (18 printed pages)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc948982.aspx
Summary: Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles. (12 printed pages)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848116.aspx
The PerformancePoint Monitoring Software Development Kit (SDK) documentation contains overview topics, how-to topics, and code examples for developing custom PerformancePoint Monitoring Server extensions. Monitoring Server builds upon the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) infrastructure, and takes advantage of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 technologies and features.
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Hello SharePoint Developers!
We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0!
In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, we are announcing the sim ship of both the online MSDN Library and the downloadable SDK! No more confusion about what’s the latest version: August is August!
> Download the MOSS SDK 1.4 <
> Download the WSS SDK 1.4 <
The August 2008 update is version 1.4 and reflects feature enhancements that were part of the recent Infrastructure Update. For more information on SharePoint Products and Technologies updates, you can start here on TechNet.
Which SDK do I need to download?
If you are only writing code that utilizes the Windows SharePoint Services platform, you can download the WSS SDK. However, if you want the superset of all documentation and samples, you should install the MOSS SDK, and then you’ll get all the platform and technology information as well. You don’t need to download both, but you will need to uninstall all previous versions.
Note The SDK 1.4 downloads are full releases that include all previous tools and documentation.
What’s New in this release?
The SDK updates in 1.4 include:
- New Federated Search Samples:
· Updated documentation files, including updated, offline versions of MSDN Library Technical Articles and Developer Guides
What’s New in the MOSS SDK 1.4 Documentation
What’s New in the WSS SDK 1.4 Documentation
· Lots of new documentation for Records Management APIs.
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.Holds
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.RecordsRepository
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.Reporting
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.SearchAndProcess
While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…
You can also update the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services. Here is the link to the installer: VSeWSS 1.2. The extensions were updated on 7/1/2008 and now work with Visual Studio 2008!
Don’t forget to download the user’s guide: version 1.1
Please keep sending us feedback!
We want to make sure you have all the information you expect to find in the SDK. Please reply to this blog entry with comments if you have a request. And don't forget to use the Community Content Wiki on MSDN to annotate the SDK documentation online with your own insights. Just look toward the bottom of each page online or click the Add Content... button in the top-level menu on MSDN Library pages.
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I had a question today about SharePoint Workflow "Dos and Don'ts" and I thought it might be a good idea to share the response more broadly.
I'm also working on compiling a list of Best Practices for Custom Application Development in SharePoint, which will be published next month on MSDN as part of a larger MSDN/TechNet series on the subject of guidance and best practices. Stay tuned for updates...
SharePoint Workflow Resources
The Workflow Resource Center on MSDN is a good place to start for guidance: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb421687.aspx.
**Update 8/29: Here is a great Workflow Best Practices paper as well: Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation
This blogger also did a good job compiling links within the SDK and to other MSDN & Web resources, as well as other sources of Best Practices for Workflows:
http://blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/archive/2007/07/06/does-your-sharepoint-workflow-look-like-this.aspx
Also, the downloadable MOSS SDK has a lot of workflow templates and samples.
Knowing when to use SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflows v. Visual Studio (VS) workflows
A good place to start is with the freshly updated SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms461944.aspx.
There is also this guidance offered in the SharePoint team blog:
SPD is geared toward the Web Designer/Business admin. It's easy to learn, and you don't have to write any code. You can put together a lot of workflows with just sequence of actions and conditions. The other cool thing about SPD is that you can deploy remotely (vs. VS, where you have to deploy on the server box)
However, there are a few limitations (deploys to one list at a time, no InfoPath forms, only sequential workflows). So you will want to use VS if…
· You need to create a workflow that can be deployed to all lists in a site collection.
· You want to use InfoPath forms for your workflow
· You need more actions than the ones available by default in SPD
· You want to use state machine workflows
Hope this helps,
Randall
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Hello SharePoint Developers!
We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the downloadable SDKs for SharePoint Products and Technologies.
The February update is version 1.3 and captures changes made as part of Service Pack 1 (SP1). For more info on SharePoint Server 2007 SP1, you can start here on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb968180.aspx.
> Download the MOSS SDK 1.3 <
> Download the WSS SDK 1.3 <
Which SDK do I need to download?
If you are only coding against the Windows SharePoint Services technology, you can download the WSS SDK. However, if you are coding against Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), you should install the MOSS SDK, and then you’ll get all the platform and technology information as well. You don’t need to download both, and you don’t need to download any previous versions: the SDK 1.3 downloads are full releases that include all previous tools and documentation.
What’s New in this release?
The SDK updates in 1.3 include:
· Updated documentation files, including our offline versions of MSDN Library Technical Articles and Developer Guides
What’s New in the MOSS SDK 1.3 Documentation
What’s New in the WSS SDK 1.3 Documentation
· ASPX “Collect Feedback” Workflow Sample
This sample implements a basic collect feedback workflow that assigns review tasks to a group of people, in serial or parallel, and waits for them to be completed. It is available in both the MOSS and the WSS SDK.
· New IntelliSense XML files
We have included updated IntelliSense XML files for both MOSS and WSS. Expect to see some new screencasts on how to use XML IntelliSense with Visual Studio in the next few days—check back here for announcements!
· New Document Converter sample
We have a new Smart Client Authoring sample for Enterprise Content Management in the MOSS SDK. Included with the sample are an XSLT Applicator, a Folder Feature (for MOSS machines), sample XSL and XML files, and an installer.bat file.
Even more information: The full list of documentation changes can be found here in the developer docs team blog.
While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…
You can also update the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services 1.1. Here is the link to the installer: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en. The extensions were updated on 2/11/2008.
Please keep sending us feedback!
We want to make sure you have the information you need in the SDK. Please reply to this blog entry with comments if you have a request. And don't forget to use the Community Content Wiki on MSDN to annotate the SDK documentation online. Just look toward the bottom of each page online or click the Add Content... button in the top-level menu on MSDN Library pages.
AJ, Uma, and I will all be at the SharePoint Conference from March 3 – 6 in Seattle and you can swing by our table at the Ask The Experts Lunch on Wednesday. Hope to see you there!
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It has been a little while since my last post, but I wanted to give a quick update to everyone to share a really useful feed from MSDN that you should subscribe to:
http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss.xml
The MSDN SharePoint RSS Feed contains information about recently published Technical Articles, How Do I…? Screencasts or Visual How To videos and articles, Book Excerpts, New Portal Pages, SDKs, Downloads, and even SharePoint-related event notifications.
Here is a sampling of the feed, outlining all the great content and tools we have published on MSDN since our last SDK drop:
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Explore 5 new resource centers for Administration, Pages and User Interface, Provisioning, Security and Web Parts. Find articles, how-to topics, references, downloads, blog and forum entries, and other resources for Windows SharePoint Services development.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Read this excerpt from "Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" to understand how Windows SharePoint Services extends the ASP.NET Framework. You can also learn how to create your own application pages.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Understand the important concepts and terminology used in IIS and ASP.NET, as well as the difference between site pages and application pages. Then learn how to use CustomAction elements to create custom application pages and integrate them into the menus of a site.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Learn how to enable users to convert and download InfoPath forms directly from SharePoint form libraries in a file format that is not XML.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Learn how to use Community Server accounts with SharePoint 2007 sites. This article walks through how to integrate the Community Server membership database together with the role-based security of SharePoint Server 2007.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Learn about the new federated search feature, creating federated search connectors, and the federated location definition file schema in the Beta SDK documentation of Microsoft Search Server and Search Server Express.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Learn the requirements to perform an upgrade of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customizations to SharePoint Server 2007.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Learn to work with upgrade definition files, understand key elements and attributes, and walk through an annotated sample upgrade definition file so that you can perform an upgrade of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customizations to SharePoint Server 2007.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Learn how to create projects based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system and build solutions that use both the new client and server extensions in the platform.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 exposes its search functionality through an XML Web service, so that you can access Enterprise Search results from client applications and Web applications outside the context of a SharePoint site.
Monday, October 29, 2007
In this visual how-to video, learn how you can access Enterprise Search results from client applications and Web applications outside the context of a SharePoint site.
Monday, October 22, 2007
In this download, you will find four code samples for use with the MSDN article, "Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System." Samples include project files and sample files to create a basic Workflow template, a custom task pane, a Word add-in, and event handler.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Excel Services is a new server technology included in SharePoint Server 2007. This shared service enables the ability to load, calculate, and display Excel 2007 workbooks on SharePoint Server 2007.
Video: Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
In this visual how-to video, learn to create a custom application that uses the SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Web Services.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Learn to use Visual Studio 2005 to create an application for Windows that presents a simple user interface that accepts information from the user and then adds the Excel Web Access Web Part to an Office SharePoint Server page.
Video: Adding Excel Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007
Monday, October 08, 2007
Watch this visual how-to video and learn to programmatically add an instance of the Excel Web Access Web Part to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 page.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Learn how to use Visual Studio 2005 to create a Web Control Library that contains a Web Part that uses the Enterprise Search functionality included with SharePoint Server 2007.
Video: Creating Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007
Monday, October 08, 2007
Watch this visual how-to video and learn to use Visual Studio 2005 to create a Web Control Library that contains a Web Part that uses the Enterprise Search functionality included with SharePoint Server 2007.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Learn about some helper classes built by using the Microsoft .NET Framework that make it easier to build query requests for the Microsoft SharePoint Server Search Query Web service and handle query responses.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Learn to use Enterprise Search to crawl sites that are protected by forms authentication or cookie-based authentication, and walk through creating a sample custom security trimmer for trimming the returned search results.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Parse the log files that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 produces when logging is enabled to effectively analyze the usage event data.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Learn to create a SharePoint Server 2007 user profile by using the SharePoint UserProfileService Web service.
Monday, September 24, 2007
In this visual how-to video, learn to create a SharePoint Server 2007 user profile by using the SharePoint UserProfileService Web service.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Learn how to display custom fields in the Content Query Web Part by setting the CommonViewFields custom property and editing the default XSLT transformation used to render items.
Monday, September 24, 2007
In this visual how-to video, learn to display custom fields in the Content Query Web Part by setting the CommonViewFields custom property and editing the default XSLT transformation used to render items.
Friday, September 21, 2007
The conference will be held March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle, WA USA with Bill Gates as the keynote speaker and over 100 SharePoint technical sessions and hands-on labs.
Friday, September 21, 2007
In February 2008, join us in San Jose to usher in the office development revolution. Expand your horizon beyond what you know.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Welcome to the new PerformancePoint Server developer portal on MSDN. Learn how PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides all the functionality that is needed for performance management, and how its features help analysts monitor and analyze organizational performance, as well as do critical planning, forecasting, and financial reporting.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Learn about several different approaches for authenticating cross-domain data connections from form templates deployed to InfoPath Forms Services, as part of either Forms Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2007.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
In this book excerpt, author Alvin J. Bruney provides an introduction to Excel Services, a new technology built and conditioned to interact with Excel spreadsheets.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
In this book excerpt, the author focuses on building Web Parts from Visual Studio 2005 and installing them on SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 so that they can be used in SharePoint applications.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Follow step-by-step instructions with code examples to create a SharePoint Server 2007 custom master page and related page layouts based on a minimal master page.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Learn to optimize an Internet-facing Web content management (WCM) site to achieve maximum performance and an effective user experience.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Learn about common issues surrounding writing custom code using the SharePoint object model, and identify best practices to help correct them.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Learn how the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor automatically generates the XML metadata for the LOB system, making it easy to create an application definition file for the Business Data Catalog.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Check out the new tools and samples in the latest SDK update: Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor, WSHelloWorld Web Service, Excel Services User Defined Function Sample, WSOrders Custom Proxy Sample, SAP Sample, Sample Protocol Handler, Custom Content Source, and the IRM Document Protector.
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Hello SharePoint Developers!
We are very proud to announce a major update to the MOSS and WSS Software Development Kit (SDK) downloads. You can install them from the following locations:
· MOSS 2007 SDK 1.2. Includes Conceptual and Class Library Reference documentation, Web Services documentation, and Developer Tools and Samples for MOSS and WSS. See below for a detailed breakdown what’s new in this release.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en
· WSS 3.0 SDK 1.2. Includes Conceptual and Class Library Reference documentation, Web Services documentation, and Developer Tools and Samples for WSS technology only. See below for a detailed breakdown what’s new in this release.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en
What’s New in this Release
We are constantly improving the SDK releases as a direct response to customer feedback. Let us know your requests for future releases! Here is a detailed breakdown of changes to the SDK and its contents.
Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation Enhancements
We have doubled our resources on the WSS SDK documentation, and we have been working around the clock to provide you with greatly expanded coverage on the SDK documentation. A full breakdown of new and improved sections for the platform documentation can be found in the WSS SDK Welcome topic; here is the link to the online version: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx.
Start Menu Navigation
This release features a new Start Menu shortcut that gives you quick access to documentation (compiled HTML Help, or CHM for short) files and the Welcome Page (ReadMe.htm), which is a landing page with links out to all the tools and samples.
Installation Improvements
You now have a choice of installation location when you’re installing the SDK. You can browse to your preferred folder during setup. The default installation path for MOSS is C:\Program Files\2007 Office System Developer Resources\. The default installation path for WSS is C:\Program Files\Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK\.
Offline Experience Improvements
We packaged up all of our Technical Articles, Visual How-to Articles, and Book Excerpts—plus the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide into one searchable CHM file. Now you can browse offline for content that has been published on MSDN out-of-band with the SDK.
Known Issue: There are several links in the MOSSSDK_TechArticles.chm and the WSSSDK_TechArticles.chm that will not work in a strictly offline scenario. Also, we did not package up the WMV file screencasts or the associated downloads that go with articles, so that we could keep the download size manageable. The workaround for both issues is to browse to the content online; for ease-of-use, the TOC in the CHM file is the same as the TOC on MSDN.
New Tools Included with the MOSS SDK
We rounded out our tool set in this release to include developer tools and samples for the following areas of MOSS development. New tools and samples are in bold.
· Business Data Catalog Samples and Utilities
o Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
o Sample Pluggable SSO Provider
o WSHelloWorld Web Service
o WSOrders Web Service
o Excel Services User Defined Function Sample
o WSOrders Custom Proxy Sample
o Amazon Web Service Sample
o AdventureWorks Metadata Samples
o SAP Sample
· Document Management and Content Processing Samples
o Comment Scrub Document Converter
o Term Replacement Document Inspector
· Search Samples
o Sample Protocol Handler
o Custom Content Source
· Records Management and Policy Samples
o De-Duplication Router
o Document Integrity Verifier
o Records Center Web Service Console Application
o Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
o Sample Custom Barcode Generator
o IRM Document Protector
· Workflow Samples
o Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
o Custom Workflow Report XLSX Injector
o Visual Studio Workflow Templates
o Enterprise Content Management Workflow Activities
o List Item Activities
o Hello World Sequential Workflow
o State Based Approval Workflow
o Modification Workflow
o Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
o Intersystem Purchase Order
o Confidential Approval Workflow
o Group Approval Workflow
o Approval Workflow Sample
o Multi-Stage Workflow
o Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
Full details can be found in the Welcome Guide of the SDK, accessible through the Start Menu.
SDK Documentation Update Details
We now have close to 90% completion of all Type descriptions in the SDK Class Library Reference. Nearly all of the remaining blanks in the API reference are either Internal Namespaces and Classes or low priority APIs, and we are working to get those tagged appropriately for a future release.
Updates to the MOSS SDK conceptual topics include:
· How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part (new)
· How to: Create a Minimal Master Page (revised)
· Provisioning Portal Sites (revised)
· Portal Site Template File (revised)
· Portal (Portal Site Template) (revised)
· Webs (Portal Site Template) (revised)
· Web (Portal Site Template) (revised)
· How to Create a Web Service Connection by using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (new)
· How to Create a Database Connection by using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (new)
Updates to the MOSS SDK Class Library and Web Service Reference include:
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.ISoapServerWorkflow
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.IWorkflow
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Workflow
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.IBarCodeGenerator
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.IPolicyFeatures
· Workflow Web service
Viewing the SDK Documentation Online
We are currently in synch with our online and offline documentation, but you will always find Community Content on MSDN appended to core Microsoft documentation in the form of Wiki comments.
You can browse the SDK online through the following links:
· Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK
· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK
Keep the feedback coming!
-Randall and the SharePoint SDK team
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We just refreshed the downloads of the SharePoint SDKs on the Microsoft Download Center to reflect the many recent updates and enhancements to the documentation since RTM. You should first uninstall any previous versions of the SDK installed on your machines through Control Panel.
Get the updated SDKs today!
Here are the details of what has changed...
What's New in the Windows SharePoint Services SDK
New conceptual sections:
Procedural topics:
Schema reference topics for the following schemas:
Greatly expanded Class Library Reference material for over 300 types in the following namespaces:
· Microsoft.SharePoint
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment
· Microsoft.SharePoint.EmailIntegration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation
· Microsoft.SharePoint.MobileControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin
· Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages
· Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow
As well as expanded reference material for the following Web Services:
· Authentication Web Service
· Copy Web Service
This update also includes numerous updates and revisions to existing SDK content.
What's New in the Office SharePoint Server SDK
Class Library and Web Service Reference
Microsoft.Office.Workflow
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility.Contact
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility.Form
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Workflow
Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.Barcode
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.BarcodeGenerator
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.IBarcodeGenerator
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.IPolicyFeature
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ExchangeServiceBinding
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.OWACalendarPart
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.OWAInboxPart
New and updated content in over 40 classes in the Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles namespace
New and updated content for UserProfileService and Workflow Web services
Updates to numerous Search Web Part classes
New content and updates in nearly 60 types in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.* namespaces:
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.EditingMenuActions
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebServices
General Reference
· Enterprise Search Protocol Handlers (multiple topics, new)
· How to: Customize XSL for the Content Query Web Part (new)
· Updates to 4 more Web Content Management topics
And much more!
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Hello folks.
It has been several weeks since I posted an update on new MSDN content. We have been extremely busy publishing content, and here is the list of content published in the month of June and the first week of July:
Visual How-to Screencasts
· Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007
By Patrick Tisseghem
· Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007
By Patrick Tisseghem
· Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane
By Patrick Tisseghem
Technical Articles
· Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
By Patrick Tisseghem
o Part 1: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx
o Part 2: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530301.aspx
· Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Office System
by Scot Hilier and Bhushan Nene (Microsoft Corp.)
o Accompanying Download for the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags article
· Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2007
by Dmitriy Meyerzon, Avi Schmueli, and Jo-Anne West (Microsoft Corp.)
· Using Forms Solutions in Groove 2007
by Josh Mahoney
· Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007
by Microsoft Corp.
o Part 1: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466172.aspx
o Part 2: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466171.aspx
Developer Guides
· Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample Developer Guide
· Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample (Download)
Book Excerpts
· Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved).
o Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 of 2)
By Patrick Tisseghem
o Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 2 of 2)
By Patrick Tisseghem
· Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007, from Apress (ISBN 978-1590598085, copyright Apress 2007, all rights reserved)
o Chapter 6: Integrating Spreadsheets into the Enterprise
Downloadable White Papers
· Windows white paper: Software Update for Web Folders (Download)
Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map
Check this out if you haven’t already seen it! It’s a Windows Presentation Foundation-based, interactive developer map like the ones we have available for download. It also has dynamic content via RSS feeds, so you can always get the most up-to-date information. So cool!
· http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.aspx
Keep the feedback coming! We want to hear from you.
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Here is the rundown of Technical Articles, Visual How-to Screencasts, and their accompanying downloads published over the last couple of weeks on MSDN.
Technical Articles
Visual How-to Screencasts
- Enabling Users to Act on LOB Data with Business Data Catalog Actions
Learn how to enable your users to act on line-of-business data by using Business Data Catalog Actions.
- Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to pages, and document and list items. You can enable auditing for an entire site collection, but it can be more efficient to enable auditing with more granularity. For example, you might want to enable auditing for one specific list or document library. You can go even further and just enable auditing for one specific list item or one specific document.
- Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to list items, and documents and pages. In Windows SharePoint Services, auditing is configured on a site collection-by-site collection basis. It just takes a few lines of code to fully enable the auditing for an entire site collection. When you do this, Windows SharePoint Services writes an audit entry to its audit log each time a user views or modifies a list item, document, or site page.
- Configuring IntelliSense with CAML files when developing for SharePoint 2007
When developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS), you are often required to create and modify XML files that contain Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML). It is recommended that you configure Visual Studio on your development workstation to reference a XML schema file named WSS.XSD so that IntelliSense works properly when working with CAML-based files.
- Create a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
ASP.NET programming supports the creation of custom HttpHandler components, which provide a flexible and efficient way to process requests that don't return standard HTML-based pages. For example, HttpHandler components are great for situations in which you want to return simple text, XML, or binary data to the user.
Although development techniques involving HttpHandler components are useful when creating standard ASP.NET applications, you should also see them as a valuable building block for building business solutions for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
You can add a custom menu item for an entry control block to a list item or a document in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by creating a Feature with a CustomAction element. In this way, you can add custom commands to the default SharePoint user interface. These menu commands allow users to perform custom operations on items and documents. For example, you can create a custom menu item for an entry control block for a list item or document that redirects the user to a custom application page. Use this as a starting point to create business solutions that provide an intuitive user interface to automate domain-specific tasks on list items and documents.
- Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
You can add a custom menu item to the default Site Actions menu in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services by creating a Feature with a CustomAction element. In this way, you can add custom commands to the default SharePoint user interface. These commands are available to users as they move between pages on a SharePoint site. When you create a Site Actions menu item, you can configure it to redirect the user to any URL. For example, you can redirect the user to another Web site. You can also redirect users to a custom application page that allows them either to see a custom display of data, or to perform custom operations on the content within the current site.
- Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a deployment mechanism named "solution packages." A solution package is a CAB file with a .wsp file-name extension that contains all the files that must be deployed on the front-end Web server and a set of XML-based installation instructions. Windows SharePoint Services provides a rich infrastructure that simplifies deployment of solution packages in a Web farm environment.
- Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Development for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 often involves deploying custom source files into the WSS \TEMPLATE directory. It is helpful to create a Microsoft Visual Studio project with a directory structure that parallels the \TEMPLATE directory so you can automate copying your source files into the location required for deployment and testing.
- Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
You can create custom application pages to add user interface components to a custom solution based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Unlike site pages (for example, default.aspx), a custom application page is deployed once per Web server and cannot be customized on a site-by-site basis. Application pages are based in the virtual _layouts directory. In addition, they are compiled into a single assembly DLL. They are also used across all sites within a server farm. For these reasons, they perform better than site pages. With application pages, you can also add inline code. With site pages, you cannot add inline code.
- Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
When you create ASP.NET applications, you often need to display data in the format of rows and columns. Although you could create an HTML table by using code, you become much more productive by using server-side controls such as the GridView control introduced with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. The Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services platform provides a grid control named SPGridView that inherits from the ASP.NET GridView control. The SPGridView control provides a great alternative for displaying tabular data in SharePoint-based solutions.
- Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to list items, documents, and pages. However, you must write custom code to take advantage of this auditing infrastructure because no default features utilize it. Some of the other Visual How-To topics show you how to enable auditing. Here you can learn how to retrieve information from the audit log so that you can display and report on user activity within a custom solution based on Windows SharePoint Services.
- Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
In Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you can create a menu item for an entry control block that redirects users to a custom application page. For example, the MSDN article Item-Level Auditing with SharePoint Server 2007 demonstrates how to provide each document within a document library with its own menu item in the entry control block. This menu item redirects the user to a custom application page that displays the audit history for that particular document.
When a user clicks a menu item in the entry control block, it runs an application page. The code behind the application page typically must program against the list item or document that supplied the menu item. To do this, the application page must be able to identify the list item or document. Windows SharePoint Services does this by passing the information that identifies the list item or document to the application page in a query string. The page uses this information within the page-initialization code to create an SPListItem object and its containing SPList object.
- Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services uses impersonation so that code running within a Web Part or behind a custom application page executes with the identity and permissions of the current user. In the vast majority of cases, this behavior is exactly what you want because it prevents standard users from being able to execute commands or see information that is intended only for privileged users such as a site administrator. However, occasionally your code must call restricted methods within the Windows SharePoint Services object model even though the request is initiated by a nonprivileged user. In such cases you must be able to elevate the privilege of your code as it executes on the Web server.
- Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services provides an auditing facility that allows you to see the actions users take within the context of a site collection. Examples of user actions that you can audit automatically include viewing, updating, and deleting list items and documents, as well as viewing site pages. One important limitation of the built-in auditing facility is that it cannot audit access to application pages that are deployed within the \LAYOUTS directory.
If you want to audit the actions of users as they view your custom application pages, you must add code that writes custom audit entries into the Windows SharePoint Services audit log. You can write custom audit entries within the context of any auditable object, such as those of type SPSite, SPWeb, SPList, and SPListItem.
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We have been working non-stop since RTM to update major sections of the MOSS and WSS SDK documentation on MSDN. You can browse the SDKs online here:
If you're working with Visual Studio a lot, you can follow the simple instructions in this blog post to get Help directly from MSDN in Visual Studio's Help viewer; it also works for F1 Help within your code. Browsing the online version of the SDKs also lets you see the MSDN Community Content that appears in Wiki-style content blocks at the end of each SDK topic.
Here is the fine print for those of you who wish to know what has been updated and added:
What's New in the Windows SharePoint Services SDK
New conceptual sections:
Procedural topics:
Schema reference topics for the following schemas:
Greatly expanded Class Library Reference material for over 300 types in the following namespaces:
· Microsoft.SharePoint
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment
· Microsoft.SharePoint.EmailIntegration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation
· Microsoft.SharePoint.MobileControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin
· Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages
· Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow
As well as expanded reference material for the following Web Services:
· Authentication Web Service
· Copy Web Service
This update also includes numerous updates and revisions to existing SDK content.
What's New in the Office SharePoint Server SDK
Class Library and Web Service Reference
Microsoft.Office.Workflow
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility.Contact
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility.Form
· Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Workflow
Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.Barcode
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.BarcodeGenerator
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.IBarcodeGenerator
· Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.IPolicyFeature
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ExchangeServiceBinding
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.OWACalendarPart
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.OWAInboxPart
New and updated content in over 40 classes in the Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles namespace
New and updated content for UserProfileService and Workflow Web services
Updates to numerous Search Web Part classes
New content and updates in nearly 60 types in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.* namespaces:
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.EditingMenuActions
· Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebServices
General Reference
· Enterprise Search Protocol Handlers (multiple topics, new)
· How to: Customize XSL for the Content Query Web Part (new)
· Updates to 4 more Web Content Management topics
And much more!
"Continuous Publishing" and the SharePoint SDKs
We are continually updating the SDKs with more information as it becomes available and as we receive customer feedback with new content requests; we call this "continuous publishing" at Microsoft.
The downloadable SDK will be updated in the next few months, which will be a coordinated release in both U.S. English and Japanese.
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A couple of weeks ago I announced the arrival of a new content type: the Office Visual How-to Screencast. Now instead of 3 of them we have published 10 for MOSS!
Search
- Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
The Search Center is a new type of site that is included by default in the site collection when you provision a collaboration portal. Its goal is to provide users with a customized search experience, and to replace the search box that is available at the top of the pages in the portal. There are two editions of the Search Center: the Search Center Lite and the Search Center with Tabs. The Search Center Lite is typically added to site collections where the publishing features are not activated. An example is a site collection with only team sites. The Search Center with Tabs offers a full customization using a tab-based user interface, but it requires the publishing features to be active. This is the case by default within collaboration portals. This article covers two customization options that can be performed in the Search Center with Tabs: how to add custom search pages and tabs, and, how to replace the XSLT for the search results with a custom XSLT.
- Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
Lists and document libraries in SharePoint sites typically have extra columns defined for them. This custom metadata is collected by the crawler when it indexes the contents of these containers. Administrators can expose this custom metadata to the users who perform search queries in the Search Center. The Advanced Search page has a property picker that can be populated with managed properties. This article explains and illustrates how to expose managed properties to the user, and also explains how developers can programmatically create managed properties.
- Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
Search scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 are used to narrow the search results returned to users executing a search query. Search scopes can be shared or locally defined. You can use different rules in the definition of a search scope, from simply scoping based on a content source to more complex scoping with conditions using custom metadata. You can view search scopes in the browser with scope pickers. Scope pickers are connected to a display group listing the scopes to be displayed.
- Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
A content source is a location that contains resources, and you may want the resources crawled or indexed. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes functionality to search Web sites and SharePoint sites, folders, and data exposed using the Business Data Catalog. In this Visual How-to article, we'll focus on working with the Business Data Catalog with step-by-step instructions and samples.
Business Data Catalog (BDC)
- Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes by Ryan Femling, 3Sharp
You can use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to search entities and other Business Data Catalog items, site collections, and people. You can easily refine the results of these Business Data Catalog searches with scopes. When you define the scopes, you can use them to segregate your Business Data Catalog search results from the rest of your SharePoint Server 2007 search results. You can display this data in a separate Web Part on the Search Results, or in a separate landing page altogether. This ability to segregate yet display the data side-by-side allows the searcher to easily see what they have searched on that is in the Business Data Catalog, along with any relevant material from SharePoint Server 2007.
- Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms by David Gerhardt, 3Sharp
You can build forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 that run both in InfoPath 2007 and in a Web browser. For browser scenarios, you can integrate with the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by having a custom action pass a parameter value to form files.
- Filtering one Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen, 3Sharp (previously announced)
The Business Data Catalog allows you to define multiple entities for a given line-of-business (LOB) system. Furthermore, within the metadata file, you can create associations that define a hierarchy within the entities. For example, if there are two entities defined, such as customers and orders, you can create an association to tie the customer entity directly to the order entity. This allows users within your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 portal to create master-child behavior.
- Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen, 3Sharp (previously announced)
The Business Data Catalog is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 feature that exposes and incorporates Line-of-Business (LOB) data into other baseline portal functionality, such as lists and enterprise search. To incorporate this data into your portal, you must build an XML file that identifies where the data is stored (either Microsoft SQL Server or a Web service) and what the data looks like (for example, what the data types and primary keys are).
Excel Services
- Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services by Joel Krist, Akona Systems
Much like previous versions of Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides support for user-defined functions (UDFs). UDFs are custom functions that extend the calculation and data-import capabilities of Excel 2007.
- Retrieving Excel 2007 Workbooks or Snapshots Using Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services by Joel Krist, Akona Systems (previously announced)
If you want to save a copy of an up-to-date workbook, store it somewhere, send it to someone, and so on, you can retrieve an entire workbook or a snapshot using Excel Web Services. When a user or application requests a snapshot, Excel Services opens the Excel file on the server, refreshes data sources, and calculates all Excel formulas. Excel Services then generates and sends a snapshot back through the Web service API.
Let us know what you think! We have many more coming soon for MOSS, and we look forward to your feedback about the subjects we're choosing, the usefulness, and the technical depth of the videos. Let us know what you'd like to start seeing more of or less of!
More information: Office Visual How-to Center on MSDN
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