Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog

This post lists and addresses known issues that developers have been frequently encountering while working with the Beta release of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. These issues relate only to the Beta 2 versions of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Read More...

During the Beta timeframe, we’re going to be posting them to Code Gallery, rather than waiting to release them in the SharePoint 2010 SDK for the first time at RTM. We’ll include the code samples in their final form in the SharePoint 2010 SDK download at RTM. We’ll be keeping the list below up-to-date each time we release a new code sample, so you might want to bookmark this post. Read More...

Contribute a Code Sample and Get Your Name in the SharePoint 2010 SDK We’re looking for experienced SharePoint developers to share their skill and technical expertise with the SharePoint community. You’ll help your fellow SharePoint developers, and receive full attribution in the SharePoint SDK for doing so! Read More...

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...

This post is to solicit your opinion about whether and how Microsoft should change the presentation of C# property declarations in SDK topics to take into account certain changes in the 3.0 version of C#. Every property of a managed class has a reference Read More...

(Cross-posted from my individual work blog .) For the last several weeks, I’ve been experimenting with using mind maps , both as a way of brainstorming about developer content, and as a possible way of presenting content in a less-structured way than 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...

(cross-posted from Enterprise Search Blog ) Are you trying to think of ways to make your Search Server site more interactive and graphical? You can use Federation as a way to enhance the functionality of your search result pages. The Federated Search 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 In my last two posts I discussed how third party clients can most efficiently synchronize with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 In this article I look into extending the “ Connect To… ” menu item. The “ Connect To… ” menu item is extensible 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...