SharePoint dev blog

The official Microsoft blog for SharePoint developers

This is the final SharePoint Dev blog post. We’ve moved to the Office Developer blog, in this...

Date: 07/22/2014

Our bad. We’ve been guilty of sending mixed messages about the status of sandboxed solutions...

Date: 01/14/2014

In this blog post we will walk you through creating a SharePoint 2013 development environment on...

Date: 09/26/2013

OneDrive for Business, a personal cloud library for business, is a place where users can store files...

Date: 08/13/2013

This morning at the Microsoft Build Developer conference in San Francisco, S. Somasegar, Corporate...

Date: 06/26/2013

Have you heard? The new Reimagine SharePoint Development site is now live. This site contains...

Date: 05/23/2013

Join us May 20, 2013, for a webcast as we kick off a new site centered on migrating SharePoint...

Date: 05/08/2013

The mobile market is growing continuously, and in the near future, more mobile devices than desktop...

Date: 05/07/2013

Learn how a SharePoint publishing site looks and reacts to different display resolutions when you...

Date: 04/01/2013

Last week, Keenan Newton published a blog post on the SharePoint blog. In his post, Keenan explains...

Date: 03/13/2013

This week, we completed the facelift of our entry point for Office 365 developer content on MSDN....

Date: 03/12/2013

With Feature Pack 1 for Duet Enterprise 1.0 and Duet Enterprise 2.0, you can add a custom data...

Date: 02/19/2013

Summary: Learn how to customize the Duet Workflow Task form using InfoPath Designer. Applies To:...

Date: 01/10/2013

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2013 supports connecting to OData-based LOB...

Date: 11/30/2012

WCF Routing Service with content based routing The configuration of the content enrichment feature...

Date: 11/21/2012

Earlier this week, Samantha Robertson published a post about scenario pages in the SharePoint IT Pro...

Date: 11/14/2012

Did you ever wish you had more control over how your content is indexed and presented as search...

Date: 11/13/2012

If you are registered for the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas, consider nominating your...

Date: 10/05/2012

Update: This article is brought to you by Chris O’Brien, SharePoint MVP and consultant based...

Date: 09/20/2012

Last week Vivek Narasimhan (Product Marketing Manager for Office and SharePoint) announced the app...

Date: 08/15/2012

On July 16th 2012 Steve Ballmer unveiled the new, modern Office with exciting support for...

Date: 07/24/2012

A couple of months ago, we posted a few articles introducing some of the new features of the...

Date: 06/21/2012

IntroductionAs a consultant for Microsoft Global Delivery, I recently worked with a Customer who...

Date: 06/01/2012

In this post, you learn how to hide the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 by using JavaScript. About the...

Date: 04/30/2012

In the Part I of this series, we were pleased to announce the SharePoint List Designer as one of the...

Date: 04/19/2012

Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and...

Date: 04/16/2012

Problem Statement Many SharePoint projects and solutions need client-side JavaScript for performing...

Date: 04/05/2012

Part 1 of this series on SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta summarized all of the...

Date: 03/22/2012

In the previous post in this series, we showed how to deploy WSPs as part of an automated build...

Date: 03/06/2012

The figure below is a syntax diagram detailing how to construct URIs for the Excel Services REST...

Date: 03/05/2012

Visual Studio 11 Beta introduces a new set of features and enhances existing features in the...

Date: 03/01/2012

The Microsoft Office Developer Center has created 101 code samples for SharePoint 2010. These...

Date: 02/22/2012

Summary: See how to retrieve the site collection URL at run time when using a timer job for...

Date: 02/21/2012

The figure below is a syntax diagram of the structure of SharePoint Foundation REST service URIs....

Date: 02/20/2012

This post describes how to update ODC files programmatically by using either a SharePoint feature or...

Date: 02/09/2012

Today’s diagram is probably best considered a work in progress. We created the following diagram as...

Date: 02/06/2012

XML files are often used as input to search engines. The article Custom XML Item Processing...

Date: 01/25/2012

Ribbon customizations, deployed as custom actions, in SharePoint 2010 can be categorized in two...

Date: 01/23/2012

Excel Services is part of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Excel Services is built on ASP.NET and...

Date: 01/09/2012

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables users to read and write data from external...

Date: 12/26/2011

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is included in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010,...

Date: 12/12/2011

As a SharePoint developer, you very likely already know about the Excel Services JavaScript API...

Date: 12/09/2011

Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables users to read and write data from external...

Date: 11/28/2011

Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define and...

Date: 11/18/2011

In this fifth article of our SharePoint Continuous Integration series, we will look at how to...

Date: 11/17/2011

The request batching process helps to improve performance and reduce network traffic in two ways....

Date: 11/14/2011

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010 builds on the technology of the Business...

Date: 10/31/2011

This diagram demonstrates the project templates and project item templates that you can use when...

Date: 10/17/2011

The SharePoint product marketing team has a list of resources to help you make decisions about...

Date: 10/04/2011

One major advantage of the SharePoint 2010 development platform is that it provides the ability to...

Date: 10/03/2011

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