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SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released!

randalli — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:28:00 GMT

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.

SharePoint Developer Best Practices Resource Center now LIVE on MSDN!

randalli — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:15:00 GMT

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.

Thank You, SharePoint MVPs!

randalli — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:20:00 GMT

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.

MVP Name	Title and Link	Date Published
Andrew Connell	Approaches to Creating Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007	February 2009
	Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies	December 2008
	Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site	November 2008
	Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites	October 2008
	Creating Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
	Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
David Mann	Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2009
	Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2)	June 2008
Patrick Tisseghem	Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)	June 2007
	Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3)	October 2006
Scot Hillier	Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007	February 2009
Wouter van Vugt	Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field by Using the EntityPicker	August 2008

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!

MVP Name	Title and Link	Date Published
Andrew Connell	Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild	April 2008
	Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	April 2008
	Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Content Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	March 2008
	Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	March 2008
	Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007	January 2008
	Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007	January 2008
Patrick Tisseghem	Creating Workflow Association Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2008
	Using Smart Clients to Communicate with Workflows in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	February 2008
	Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007	December 2007
	Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007	July 2007
	Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms	July 2007
	Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007	July 2007
	Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007	July 2007
	Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane	July 2007
	Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server	April 2007
	Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search	April 2007
	Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search	April 2007
	Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search	April 2007
Ted Pattison	Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007
	Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	May 2007

Book Excerpts

We have a way of publishing one or two chapters from several book publishers, including Microsoft Press and Wrox, among others.

MVP Name(s)	Title and Link	Date Published
John Holliday, John Alexander, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, J. Dan Attis, Adam Buenz	Chapter 8: Building Personalized Solutions from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Development	February 2009
Andrew Connell	Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibility from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007	August 2008
Andrew Connell	Chapter 20: Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications from the book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007	August 2008
Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson	Chapter 2: SharePoint Architecture (Part 1 of 2) from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	November 2007
Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson	Chapter 3: Pages and Design (Part 1 of 2) from the book Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	November 2007

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

New MSDN Content - September 2008

randalli — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:50:00 GMT

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:

Capitalizing On the Social Network Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 User Profiles

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)

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications

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)

PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK Documentation

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.

Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library (8.29.2008)

randalli — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:54:00 GMT

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:

Custom Federated Search Web Part with a Credentials UI (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
Federated Search SQL Server Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
Federated Search HTML to RSS Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
Federated Search Virtual Earth Map Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)

· 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.

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 Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007)

randalli — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:11:00 GMT

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

SharePoint SDK Downloads Refreshed! (7/17/2007)

randalli — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:09:00 GMT

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!

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (Version 1.1)
Installs to %SystemDrive%\2007 Office System Developer Resources\SharePoint Server 2007 SDK\
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (Version 1.1)
Installs to %SystemDrive%\Windows SharePoint Services Developer Resources\Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK\

Here are the details of what has changed...

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!

Tons of New SharePoint Content Now Live on MSDN - July 12, 2007

randalli — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:36:00 GMT

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

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

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.

Just Published on MSDN (5/17/2007)

randalli — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:57:00 GMT

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

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Learn to properly conduct team-environment development of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and assemblies (Web Parts, site templates, custom list templates), as well as develop Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer artifacts (master pages, workflows, CSS sheets). (13 printed pages)
Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
Learn how to upgrade a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 application to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using this step-by-step guide and the WoodGroveNet MCMS 2002 sample application. This article is part 1 of 2. (25 printed pages)
Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
Learn how to upgrade a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 application to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using this step-by-step guide and the WoodGroveNet MCMS 2002 sample application. This article is part 2 of 2. (35 printed pages)

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.

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.

10 Office Visual How-to Screencasts Now Published for MOSS!

randalli — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:13:00 GMT

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

Announcing the 1st Office Visual How to Videos for MOSS! 3 BDC and Excel Services Screencasts Posted on MSDN!

randalli — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:39:00 GMT

I'm very excited to announce that we launched a new content type on MSDN recently: the Office Visual How to!

Here's the idea behind the Office Visual How to topics:

See It. If you've got 10 - 15 minutes to watch a video showing the code in action, you can stream it from the article page. You can also download it!
Code It. If you want to see the code and copy it into your project to try it out yourself, it's also printed with the article.
Read It. We also walk you through the code and give you contextual information so you can see what's going on in detail.
Explore It. We provide links to more information in the MOSS SDK, on the MOSS Developer Portal, in team blogs, and elsewhere on MSDN.

We have 3 new Visual How to topics for MOSS that went live this week:

Filtering one Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen @3Sharp
Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen @3Sharp
Retrieving Excel 2007 Workbooks or Snapshots Using Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services by Joel Krist @Akona Systems

We have a long list of MOSS videos and topics that will go live in the coming weeks, so stay tuned to this blog or the MOSS Portal on MSDN for updates! Also, don't forget to check out the Office Developer How-to Center on MSDN for a complete list of our popular How-to content type.

Also published recently on MSDN:

Item-Level Auditing with SharePoint Server 2007 by Ted Pattison

Downloads

Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services 1.0 has been released! Download it today to get started building SharePoint solutions with Visual Studio: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19f21e5e-b715-4f0c-b959-8c6dcbdc1057&displaylang=en

MSDN Information Centers

We have three new Information Centers on the MSDN SharePoint portal. An Information Center is a starting page for learning about a particular feature or task, with links to SDK content, articles, blog postings, downloads, and more. From the links on these pages, you can dive deep into any subject in the SDK in the MSDN Library, or you can find great resources that help you learn or troubleshoot a task or an issue.

SharePoint Server 2007 Information Center

We added seven new headlines and six new downloads to this "Getting Started" page; check it out! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905504.aspx

Enterprise Search Information Center

Check out the Enterprise Search Deep Dives. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb335345.aspx

Videos and Webcasts

There are more videos, webcasts, and Office Visual How To articles and videos coming next month. Check this page for what is available now: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa940989.aspx

If you haven't seen them already, be sure to check out the Business Data Catalog, Migration and Upgrade Information, Excel Services, and Web Content Management Information Centers as well. We are constantly updating the portal to ensure you have the latest information about SharePoint development.

Coming Soon

April is going to be a huge month for us, so keep your bookmarks updated at http://msdn.microsoft.com/moss! On its way next month we plan to have:

MSDN Library SDK refresh
Office Visual How To articles and Screencasts
New Articles and White Papers
Book Excerpts
Workflow and ECM Information Centers
And more!

New MSDN Technical Articles and Downloads Published for MOSS

randalli — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:13:00 GMT

The following MOSS Technical Articles have been published recently in the MSDN Library. There is one article about Enterprise Search Best Practices, and three articles (two with downloads) about Excel Services.

Enterprise Search

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search

Excel Services

What is a Technical Article? Typically, it is a magazine-style article of 5 - 25 pages that demonstrates an end-to-end scenario around a core programming task. Often there are downloadable samples with the article, and at the very least we have code inline with the article. Another distinguishing feature is that articles usually stand on their own; in other words, you can read the article from end-to-end and get the full story. Nevertheless, we always provide links to additional information or to the relevant sections of the SDK.

SharePoint Content and Resources : MOSS

SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released!

What’s New in this release?

While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…

Please keep sending us feedback!

SharePoint Developer Best Practices Resource Center now LIVE on MSDN!

Thank You, SharePoint MVPs!

MSDN Technical Articles

Visual How-to Screencasts

Book Excerpts

Call for Content

New MSDN Content - September 2008

Capitalizing On the Social Network Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 User Profiles

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications

PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK Documentation

Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library (8.29.2008)

Which SDK do I need to download?

What’s New in this release?

While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…

Please keep sending us feedback!

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

Which SDK do I need to download?

What’s New in this release?

While you’re updating your SharePoint development tools…

Please keep sending us feedback!

Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007)

What’s New in this Release

Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation Enhancements

Start Menu Navigation

Installation Improvements

Offline Experience Improvements

New Tools Included with the MOSS SDK

SDK Documentation Update Details

Viewing the SDK Documentation Online

SharePoint SDK Downloads Refreshed! (7/17/2007)

Tons of New SharePoint Content Now Live on MSDN - July 12, 2007

Visual How-to Screencasts

Technical Articles

Developer Guides

Book Excerpts

Downloadable White Papers

Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map

Just Published on MSDN (5/17/2007)

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

10 Office Visual How-to Screencasts Now Published for MOSS!

Announcing the 1st Office Visual How to Videos for MOSS! 3 BDC and Excel Services Screencasts Posted on MSDN!

More New MOSS and WSS Content on MSDN! (March 19, 2007)

Downloads

MSDN Information Centers

SharePoint Server 2007 Information Center

Enterprise Search Information Center

Videos and Webcasts

Coming Soon

New MSDN Technical Articles and Downloads Published for MOSS

Enterprise Search

Excel Services