Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog

Official Blog of the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team

Over the past few years, a number of MSDN blogs have been created that deal, at least in part, with...

Date: 12/03/2010

Those of you who are interested in learning more about how to use Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010...

Date: 11/30/2010

Microsoft has released the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable. The...

Date: 11/18/2010

The SharePoint Server 2010 social data object model enables you to create your own activity types...

Date: 11/12/2010

The SharePoint 2010 Published Intranet Solution Center has just launched on Technet. A Technet...

Date: 11/08/2010

When developing for SharePoint, you sometimes need to find the four-part name for an assembly. You...

Date: 11/05/2010

Ted Pattison has produced a new video showing how to create a custom field type in SharePoint. For a...

Date: 10/28/2010

Ted Pattison has produced a new visual showing how to create a multicolumn field type in SharePoint....

Date: 10/28/2010

Ted Pattison has produced a visual "How to" about how to extend the SharePoint tools in Visual...

Date: 10/28/2010

Farm solutions can be installed with SharePoint Management Shell (PowerShell), but did you know that...

Date: 10/28/2010

So, last week we published the SharePoint Online Developer Resource Center, to serve as a one-stop...

Date: 10/27/2010

As you’ve not doubt heard by now, today Microsoft announced Microsoft Office 365, our next...

Date: 10/19/2010

Because sandboxed solutions cannot deploy files to a server's file system, there is some puzzlement...

Date: 10/06/2010

You can use many resources to get started developing SharePoint solutions. In addition to the MSDN...

Date: 10/06/2010

We’ve launched a new blog called SharePoint in Pictures. It is a blog that will feature diagrams of...

Date: 10/05/2010

(Cross-posted from Randall's blog.) The SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) has been...

Date: 09/09/2010

(Cross-posted from Randall's blog.) Hello SharePoint Developers! I am thrilled to announce the...

Date: 05/12/2010

This post will cover how to create a Web Part that opens a contextual tab on the Server ribbon in...

Date: 01/28/2010

(Before he left for a week of laying on various tropical beaches with drinks in his hand, Dallas...

Date: 12/07/2009

This post lists and addresses known issues that developers have been frequently encountering while...

Date: 11/20/2009

For the SharePoint 2010 release, we’re trying something a little different with our sample code...

Date: 10/23/2009

Contribute a Code Sample and Get Your Name in the SharePoint 2010 SDK We’re looking for experienced...

Date: 10/20/2009

By now you’ve probably been hearing some of the big news coming out of the SharePoint Developer...

Date: 10/19/2009

This post is to solicit your opinion about whether and how Microsoft should change the presentation...

Date: 04/23/2009

(Cross-posted from my individual work blog.) For the last several weeks, I’ve been experimenting...

Date: 02/04/2009

One of the things I've wanted to do on this blog is give people a clearer view into how we actually...

Date: 06/09/2008

(cross-posted from Enterprise Search Blog) Are you trying to think of ways to make your Search...

Date: 04/01/2008

Introduction If you have a custom content component that you want to be included in Windows...

Date: 02/07/2008

Introduction This post describes how to back up and restore individual site collections...

Date: 02/07/2008

Introduction This post explains how to create an application that restores from a backup a content...

Date: 02/07/2008

Introduction This post explains how to program a backup of a content component, including custom...

Date: 02/07/2008

Introduction This post describes the architecture of the backup and restore object model in Windows...

Date: 02/07/2008

Introduction In my last two posts I discussed how third party clients can most efficiently...

Date: 02/01/2008

Introduction This post provides some basic facts about backing up and restoring data in Windows...

Date: 01/23/2008

Introduction In my last blog post I introduced GetListItemChangesSinceToken and discussed how using...

Date: 01/22/2008

Introduction There may be occasions where you will need to synchronize third party programs with...

Date: 01/21/2008

In my post last week I talked about customizing alert notifications and alert templates. Sometimes...

Date: 12/14/2007

By now you’ve no doubt heard that SP1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server...

Date: 12/11/2007

Hello. My name is Albert Meerscheidt and I’m one of the Programming Writers on the Windows...

Date: 12/07/2007

Key Concepts in Selective Migration Picking up where the first post left off, today's foray explores...

Date: 12/05/2007

Around the time work started on a long whitepaper about migrating content files from SharePoint...

Date: 11/30/2007

.ACTIONS files are used by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to compile a list of code-free workflow...

Date: 11/30/2007

Erika Ehrli has the scoop on Office’s participation in the MSDN machine translation pilot project....

Date: 11/27/2007

Last week we added five new Resource Center pages to the Windows SharePoint Services developer...

Date: 11/27/2007

Extending Workflow Actions for SharePoint Designer Hi there. My name is Rodney Farris and I’m one of...

Date: 11/14/2007

Welcome to the official blog of the SharePoint Products and Technologies developer documentation...

Date: 11/08/2007