Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog

This morning we launched the SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center on MSDN. We’re using this new, combined Developer Center to give you your first detailed, public technical information and instruction around both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. This new sub-site of the revamped SharePoint Developer Center highlights some early videos, documentation, and hands-on lab walkthroughs to introduce you to the exciting developer features on both SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. But that‘s not all: we’ve also published a Beta release of the combined SharePoint 2010 SDK! Read More...

One of the things I've wanted to do on this blog is give people a clearer view into how we actually produce developer documentation for SharePoint; the processes we use, the decisions we make, and what factors influence those decisions. (The Office client Read More...

Introduction If you have a custom content component that you want to be included in Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 backups and restores, you must represent the component with a class that implements the IBackupRestore interface. This post explains how Read More...

Introduction This post describes how to back up and restore individual site collections programmatically. Note : Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all classes referred to in this post are in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration or Microsoft.SharePoint Read More...

Introduction This post explains how to create an application that restores from a backup a content component, including a custom content component, of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 farm. The post assumes that you are familiar with my previous posts Read More...

Introduction This post explains how to program a backup of a content component, including custom components, in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 farm. The post assumes that you are familiar with my previous posts Overview of Backing Up and Restoring Read More...

Introduction This post describes the architecture of the backup and restore object model in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and provides some advice about how to program against it. Your backup application can be an independent application or an extension Read More...

Introduction This post provides some basic facts about backing up and restoring data in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It will serve as background information for several developer-oriented posts that I will create in the next couple of weeks. Note Read More...

By now you’ve no doubt heard that SP1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Designer are now available. (And if you haven’t heard, go here to get all the important details before you download and install the Service Packs.) For a complete listing of the documentation available for SharePoint SP1, check out the What’s New in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 page on MSDN, which includes information resources for both WSS and MOSS SP1. I’m happy to announce that as part of the SP1 push, we’ve again updated the WSS and MOSS SDKs on MSDN. Read More...

Key Concepts in Selective Migration Picking up where the first post left off, today's foray explores the basic concepts of SharePoint content migration. Most of these concepts come into play in nearly every migration scenario where you use the SharePoint.Deployment Read More...

Around the time work started on a long whitepaper about migrating content files from SharePoint server "A" to SharePoint server "B" using the migration and deployment APIs in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment namespace, I came across a series of blog Read More...

Erika Ehrli has the scoop on Office’s participation in the MSDN machine translation pilot project. As part of the pilot, you can try out beta versions of the machine-translated Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDKs in Portuguese. You can also test out beta versions of the machine-translated Office SharePoint Server TechNet materials in Spanish and Portuguese, side-by-side view with the original English content. Read More...

Last week we added five new Resource Center pages to the Windows SharePoint Services developer portal on MSDN. Read More...

Welcome to the official blog of the SharePoint Products and Technologies developer documentation team. My name is Andrew May ; I’m a Content Publishing Manager for Windows SharePoint Services. My team produces the Windows SharePoint Services SDK , along Read More...