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Developing applications for Sharepoint 2010 from Pattern & Practices

2010-07-04T11:58:00.001+03:00

from Sharepoint team blog

“SharePoint 2010 introduces new ways of developing applications for the SharePoint platform. With SharePoint 2010, you can build multi-tenant, hosted applications on an infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and stable. You can create powerful, data-driven solutions using SharePoint lists or external data. You can create client-side functionality that takes advantage of modern browser capabilities and Silverlight to provide a rich user experience. These new features, operational models, and development tools make SharePoint a more complete application platform, and it also introduces new design and development decisions for customers. This guidance helps customers understand the decision points, tradeoffs, and performance implications that the new functionality introduces; it also helps customers learn how to take best advantage of the new capabilities that SharePoint 2010 provides.”

Download the guide from here

Component	Description
The guide		"Application Foundations for SharePoint 2010" describes approaches you can use to address the challenges of testability, flexibility, configuration, logging and exception handling, and maintainability; it also explains how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library components in these areas. "Execution Models in SharePoint 2010" provides deep technical insights into the mechanics of the full-trust execution environment, the sandbox execution environment, and various hybrid approaches to executing code in SharePoint applications. "Data Models in SharePoint 2010" explains new list and external data functionality and data access techniques, key design decision points that can help you to choose between standard SharePoint lists and external lists, and techniques and patterns to address large lists and list aggregation. "Client Models in SharePoint 2010" provides guidance on how to best use the new client-side functionality to access data and build richer client experiences with Silverlight and Ajax. Each section also contains a set of how-to topics. These explain how to perform specific tasks that the team found challenging to discover.
Reference implementations		This release includes eight reference implementations that you can deploy to a SharePoint 2010 test environment. The reference implementations reinforce the key concepts in the guide and illustrate how to build applications that reflect real-world scenarios. Each reference implementation includes a detailed scenario and design overview, an explanation of the design decisions the team faced for the implementation, and an installation script to automate setup. This release includes reference implementations for the following scenarios: · Sandboxed solution · Sandboxed solution with a full-trust proxy · Sandboxed solution with External List · Sandboxed solution with custom workflow activities · Farm Solution (timer job) · SharePoint List Data Models · External Data Models · Client Application Models
The SharePoint Guidance Library		The library is a collection of reusable classes delivered as source code that address common challenges in application development for the SharePoint platform. This release improves on the previous release of the library by adding support for sandboxed solutions and taking advantage of new SharePoint features. The SharePoint Guidance Library consists of three key components: · SharePoint Service Locator. This provides a simple implementation of the Service Locator pattern for SharePoint applications. The service locator enables you to isolate your code from dependencies on external types, which makes your code more modular, easier to test, and easier to maintain. · Application Settings Manager. This provides a robust and consistent mechanism for storing and retrieving configuration settings at each level of the SharePoint hierarchy, from individual sites (SPWeb) to the entire server farm (SPFarm). · SharePoint Logger. This provides easy-to-use utility methods that you can employ to write information to the Windows Event log and the SharePoint Unified Logging Service (ULS) trace log. It also enables you to create custom diagnostic areas and categories for logging.

Language Packs for Sharepoint 2010 Products

2010-05-16T12:41:00.001+03:00

Hay Sharepoint 2010 developers, Microsoft announced the availability of many language packs for Sharepoint 2010 Products
check them on the Microsoft Sharepoint Team blog

Language	ll-CC	Release Type	Estimated Release Timeframe
Arabic***	ar-sa	SKU and LP	Released
Basque**	eu-es	LP	September
Bulgarian*	bg-bg	LP	August
Catalan**	ca-es	LP	July
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-cn	SKU and LP	Released
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-tw	SKU and LP	Released
Croatian*	hr-hr	LP	August
Czech	cs-cz	SKU and LP	June
Danish	da-dk	SKU and LP	Released
Dutch	nl-nl	SKU and LP	Released
English	en-us	SKU and LP	Released
Estonian*	et-ee	LP	August
Finnish	fi-fi	SKU and LP	May
French	fr-fr	SKU and LP	Released
Galician**	gl-es	LP	September
German	de-de	SKU and LP	Released
Greek	el-gr	SKU and LP	July
Hebrew***	he-il	SKU and LP	Released
Hindi*	hi-in	SKU and LP	Released
Hungarian	hu-hu	SKU and LP	June
Italian	it-it	SKU and LP	Released
Japanese	ja-jp	SKU and LP	Released
Kazakh*	kk-kz	LP	August
Korean	ko-kr	SKU and LP	Released
Latvian*	lv-lv	LP	August
Lithuanian*	lt-lt	LP	August
Norwegian Bokmål	nb-no	SKU and LP	May
Polish	pl-pl	SKU and LP	Released
Portuguese (Brazil)	pt-br	SKU and LP	Released
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-pt	SKU and LP	May
Romanian*	ro-ro	LP	July
Russian	ru-ru	SKU and LP	Released
Serbian Latin*	sr-latn-cs	LP	August
Slovak	sk-sk	LP	July
Slovenian	sl-si	LP	July
Spanish	es-es	SKU and LP	Released
Swedish	sv-se	SKU and LP	Released
Thai*	th-th	SKU and LP	Released
Turkish	tr-tr	SKU and LP	July
Ukrainian	uk-ua	LP	June

MVP Awarded for 2010

2010-04-01T17:08:00.001+02:00

Just got the renewal email from Microsoft , now I’m MVP for 2010 :)

Sharepoint 2010 Ignite online training now available

2010-03-28T18:59:00.001+02:00

Did you start Sharepoint 2010 training ?, Microsoft announced that the Sharepoint 2010 Ignite training online is now available for both IT Professionals and Developers

Go ahead and register here

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for IT Professionals
SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for Developers

Sharepoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch dates

2010-03-07T11:31:00.001+02:00

Microsoft announced today on Microsoft Sharepoint Team blog the launch date for both Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 to be May, 12th 2010
Also the RTM version to be available April 2010.

and for everyone yes, you can join the launch as it will be available virtually.

you can register here.

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is Available !

2010-02-10T13:45:00.001+02:00

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and .NET framework 4 for MSDN Subscribers download on Monday, Feb. 8th and will be publicly available February 10th.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio

Dec. 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007

2010-01-31T11:37:00.001+02:00

Microsoft has released Dec. 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for Sharepoint Server 2007 and now available at Update Center

For the details of the cumulative update : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx.

Operating System Requirements for Sharepoint 2010

2010-01-27T19:21:00.001+02:00

Which OS should i use to install Sharepoint 2010 in my Lab ?, this post from Microsoft Sharepoint team blog clarify this issue especially for developers who ask about installing on windows 7 and vista

“We've seen some confusion in the newsgroups and elsewhere on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 will run on. This post is meant to clarify some of the most common questions we have seen.

SharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SharePoint will not install at all on 32 bit Windows, or any earlier version of Windows such as Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003.

SharePoint is not supported on 'Server Core' installations of Windows Server 2008 and R2. The Server Core installations of Windows server do not contain some of the components required for SharePoint to be configured or run.

To make developing for SharePoint 2010 easier, it is possible to install SharePoint on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7. Note that running production environments on these OSes are not supported and it will not be possible to upgrade deployments running on client versions of Windows to future versions of SharePoint. Instructions on installing SharePoint 2010 on client versions of Windows are a bit more involved and we recommend reading the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx.

Windows version/edition (64 bit only)	SharePoint 2010 support
Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation	No
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard	Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter	Yes
Windows Web Server 2008 R2	No
Windows HPC Server 2008	No
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based systems	No
Windows Server 2008 Standard	Yes
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise	Yes
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter	Yes
Windows Web Server 2008	No
Windows Storage Server 2008	No
Windows Small Business Server 2008	Yes*
Windows Essential Business Server 2008	Yes*
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems	No
Windows Server 2008 Foundation	No
Windows Vista	Developer-only**
Windows 7	Developer-only**

* Small and Essential Business Server editions of Windows install SharePoint as an optional component.

** Support for specific editions of Windows 7/Vista are yet to be finalized, but are likely to be 'Business'/'Professional' editions and above.

The list above is meant for informational purposes only. The official list of system requirements for SharePoint 2010 is located at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx and includes additional details on prerequisites and other optional components.

Sharepoint 2010 Javascript errors

2010-01-23T01:34:00.004+02:00

After installing Sharepoint 2010 beta on my box, I got javascript errors on page load and many UI functions are not working correctly;

Sample of javascript errors:

Message: Syntax error
Line: 2
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://sps2010:2624/_layouts/ScriptResx.ashx?culture=en-us&name=SP.Res&rev=CKSAv76LENnzrJqc86tP2g%3D%3D

essage: Syntax error
Line: 2
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://sps2010/_layouts/ScriptResx.ashx?culture=en-us&name=SP.Res&rev=CKSAv76LENnzrJqc86tP2g%3D%3D

Message: Syntax error
Line: 2
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://sps2010/_layouts/ScriptResx.ashx?culture=en-us&name=SP.UI.Policy.Resources&rev=YdaIwyO83KVlLzayBPp76Q%3D%3D

Error: 'SP.Res.autocompleteLoading' is null or not an object

Error: 'SP.Res.lcid' is null or not an object

Also this errors appears in the centra administration site,

The Solution:

well after searching and troubleshooting I figured out that there is a virtual directory "/_vti_bin/sts" has assigned an application pool "SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool" that is not existing on my computer after fixing this problem and assigning another valid application pool the problem is solved and everything is functioning as it supposed to.