In a post last week I discussed some headaches I had experienced when using SharePoint Reporting Services, based on SQL Server Reporting Services, to create a report based on SharePoint lists. In this post I wanted to discuss how the goal posts move when you are working on a report derived from data in a [...]
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Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]
Services Applications are a new model in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Known as a Shared Service Provider (SSP) in MOSS 2007, a Service Application exposes functionality that has been configured for providing extended capabilities across site collections and Web applications or potentially across multiple SharePoint farms.
Key points on Service Applications
A service application can be implemented [...]
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Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]
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A few weeks back Microsoft provided a sneak peak of the Office 2010 suite and, more importantly, SharePoint 2010. Some of you may be salivating over some of the functionality presented in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peak. So why wait until SharePoint 2010 is released to get the new functionality when your MOSS 2007 implementation [...]
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In the last post I discussed the recent trends in the software industry. In this and future posts we will analyse several of the more popular Facebook applications to see how you should be designing your next successful SharePoint application.
‘Causes’
Causes is a wonderful application that sits 3rd in the [...]
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