(Chun Liu) The thoughts in this article are from an internal discussion about Linq to SharePoint.
Tag: SharePoint / BI
SharePoint – Group By a Column with Multiple Values
(James Love) This was something that seemed impossible for Sharepoint to do, but with a little trickery with XPath under the bonnet of Sharepoint Designer, proved incredibly simple.
Search 2010 Architecture and Scale – Part 1 Crawl
(Russ Maxwell) Several things have changed in 2010 SharePoint search. Search is now componentized so now you only provision what you need. This blog series will go through what these components are, how they work together, and how to provision them. The first blog we will focus on scaling Crawl
How to Avoid the Top Five SharePoint Performance Mistakes
(Andreas Grabner) SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to
Variations in SharePoint 2010 – Connecting People with Content
(Josh Stickler) When you provision a new SharePoint publishing site, one of the first options you’ll see on the default welcome page is to use the Variations feature to manage multi-lingual sites and pages. My name is Josh Stickler and I’m the Program Manager responsible for Variations. In this post
SharePoint 2007 Feature Activator and Manager
(Maxime Bombardier) So you’ve been developing on SharePoint for some time now. You’ve followed best practices and developed code through SharePoint Features. You’ve added your feature activation in your custom Site Definitions or you’ve created Stapled Features to activate them on OOB or existing
SharePoint Workspace 2010 overview
This article describes the key functionality and architecture of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. SharePoint Workspace 2010 is the new name for and succeeds Microsoft Office Groove 2007. SharePoint Workspace 2010 is a client application that provides fast, any-time interactive access to document
SharePoint: Performing Aggregate Counting for an Issues List
(Chris Quick) Now that I’ve moved into full time SharePoint consulting, I come across requests that help me really understand the power that SharePoint provides without having to “write code”. Recently, a client turned to SharePoint to handle their help desk operations because they wanted to simplif
Insert SharePoint 2010 Data : LINQ vs. WCF
(David Coe) I spend a lot of time creating SharePoint sites to either prove or disprove a point. Typically I work with customers who are working with large lists and I work to isolate out the fact that the problem we are having is indeed a large list issue. Therefore, each new SharePoint site I cr
Add items to a SharePoint list using form code
In this video demo, Phil Newman, a program manager on the InfoPath team shows how you can write managed code in an InfoPath form to add items to a SharePoint list, and then publish this form as a sandboxed solution to SharePoint.