Sharepoint Developer Notes

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In Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you could host a Microsoft Silverlight application in a Web Part. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 goes beyond by providing a built-in, extensible, Silverlight Web Part specifically designed to host Silverlight applications. Closely related to the new Web Part is the Fluid Application Model (FAM) that enables [...]

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Querying data in server code has become significantly easier and more powerful in SharePoint Foundation 2010.

When your code needs to query list data, it is no longer necessary to compose a Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) query. SharePoint Foundation 2010 includes a LINQ to SharePoint provider to enable your code to [...]

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The Ribbon offers new functionality in the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 user interface. The Ribbon serves as the primary command surface that you can use to interact with objects inside of SharePoint Foundation. In earlier product versions, commands were accessed across multiple surfaces and located in varying menus. With the introduction [...]

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A user can view a document from a document library even if they do not have an application installed on the client computer that is capable of displaying the requested document. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation provides the Microsoft.HtmlTrans namespace as an infrastructure on which to build custom converter applications that deliver an [...]

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The Microsoft Sync Framework provides SharePoint Foundation with a unified, data-agnostic and bi-directional sychronization architecture. Because it was designed to provide cross-application synchronization, implementing the Microsoft Sync Framework allows other Microsoft and third-party applications to sync more easily with SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployments. The Sync Framework provides three core building blocks:
Sync [...]

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You can take two basic approaches to customizing mobile pages in SharePoint Foundation:

Create custom mobile pages from scratch and let SharePoint Foundation redirect users to these pages.
Override an existing SharePoint Foundation mobile control template to create a unique mobile Home page by site definition type, or a unique mobile view page [...]

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An external list is a new feature in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that enables accessing data from external systems in the same way that SharePoint list data is accessed. External lists use external content types as their data sources. External lists enable you to use the metadata that is already defined about an [...]

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Business Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data Catalog) provides read/write access to external data from line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has product features that can use external data directly, both online and offline. Developers can gain access to a rich set [...]

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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 expands the alerts framework to enable users to have alerts sent as Short Message Service (SMS) messages to their mobile devices.
The mobile messaging framework is itself extensible, so you can create your SharePoint Foundation solutions that incorporate SMS messages that are sent to mobile telephones. You can create a [...]