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SharePoint SDK Downloads Now Live with SP1 Updates (2/26/2008)

randalli — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:01:00 GMT

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!

JUST RELEASED: Post-RTM Update to MOSS and WSS SDK Documentation is Now Live on MSDN!

randalli — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:54:00 GMT

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:

Content Migration
Change Log and Synchronizing Applications
Creating Declarative, No-Code Workflow Editors

Procedural topics:

How to: Create a Custom Field Type and Field Control
How To: Extend the STSADM Utility

Schema reference topics for the following schemas:

Content Migration XML Schema Reference: Contains over 180 element topics that detail the eight migration schemas
Workflow Configuration Schema

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.

Download the RTM MOSS SDK or the RTM WSS SDK

randalli — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:10:00 GMT

Download the MOSS SDK or the WSS SDK

We have officially made the released versions (we refer to it internally as “RTM,” or released to manufacturing) of the MOSS SDK for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the WSS SDK for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0!

· Download the MOSS SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

· Download the WSS SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05e0dd12-8394-402b-8936-a07fe8afaffd&displaylang=en

SDK Highlights

We created two downloads for your convenience: one for MOSS developers and a second for WSS platform developers. If you are developing against WSS only, you’ll want to install the WSS SDK; otherwise, downloading the MOSS SDK will give you everything you need—including platform information!

1. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit

Who it’s for: MOSS developers

Where it installs: [WindowsVolume]:\2007 Office System Developer Resources\

What it contains:

· SharePoint Server 2007 SDK Documentation (OSSSDK2007.chm)

· Office Forms Server 2007 SDK Documentation (OFS12sdk.chm)

· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK Documentation (WSS3sdk.chm)

· MOSS SDK Code Samples to use in conjunction with SDK documentation

o 5 Business Data Catalog (BDC) Metadata Samples

o Pluggable Single Sign-on (SSO) Provider

o Sample Web Service

o Web Part Filters and Consumers

· ECM Starter Kit

o ECM feature extension code samples

§ Content Processing: Document Converters (Comment Scrub Converter) and Term Replacement Document Inspector

§ Records Management: De-duplication Router, Document Integrity Policy Feature, Records Repository Submit, Sample Barcode Provider, and Search Collect and Hold

o Supplemental developer whitepapers:

§ Digital Signatures in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: A Developer's Guide

§ Encryption and Rights Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: A Developers Guide

§ Importing Custom Actions into Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

§ Workflow Security in Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007

§ Introduction to Information Rights Management White Papers

§ Configuring Information Rights Management in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

§ Information Rights Management in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: An Overview

§ Pluggable Rights Management in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

o Visual Studio Workflow templates for MOSS

§ Approval Workflow Sample

§ ASPX Collect Feedback

§ Confidential Approval Sample

§ Custom Reports

§ ECM Activities

§ Group Approval

§ Hello World Sequential

§ InterSystem Workflow

§ List Item Activities

§ Modification Sample

§ Multistage Workflow

§ Replicator Contact Selector Sample

§ Signatures Workflow Sample

§ State Machine Approval Workflow

2. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Software Development Kit and Workflow Starter Kit (a.k.a. Windows SharePoint Services Developer Resources)

Who it’s for: WSS developers

Where it installs: [WindowsVolume]:\Windows SharePoint Services Developer Resources\

What it contains:

· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK Documentation (WSS3sdk.chm)

· Workflow Starter Kit

o Visual Studio Workflow templates

§ ASPX Collect Feedback

Contribute Online to the SDK through MSDN Community Content

MSDN Community Content is a way of providing Wiki-style annotations to core Microsoft documentation. For example, you can add code samples, remarks or “gotchas,” translations, or other comments that enhance or supplement the core MSDN documentation.

· MOSS SDK – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx

· WSS SDK – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx

· Office Forms Server SDK – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms772301.aspx

More information about MSDN Community Content can be found in the FAQ or in Andrew May’s blog.

More Information

For more information about additional content, samples, and downloads we have made available for developers, you can bookmark the following Web portals on MSDN (check back often for updates):

· Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal on the Office Developer Center
(shortcut: http://msdn.microsoft.com/moss)

· Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Developer Center
(shortcut: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint)

I have also listed “10 Essential Resources for SharePoint Developers” in my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli/archive/2007/01/08/10-essential-resources-for-sharepoint-developers.aspx.