You can easily create connections between web parts in SharePoint Foundation, and the Walkthrough: Creating Connectable Web Parts in SharePoint Foundation topic has been recently updated to demonstrate how to do this in SharePoint Foundation 2010 with...

SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflows are declarative i-e they have no code and the entire workflow is defined using xml files. When working against SharePoint Server 2010 SPD auto-generates InfoPath task edit forms for the workflow with fields defined...

SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflows are declarative, i-e they have no code and the entire workflow is defined using xml files. When working against SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Designer auto-generates InfoPath forms for the workflow with fields defined...

There has been a lot of talk about tokenization behavior with regards to the Server ribbon in SharePoint 2010. I hope that this blog post can help some of you that are running into problems using tokens. In general, here are the tokens that are resolved...

I’m Andrew May, a programmer-writer on the SharePoint developer documentation team. If you’re like me, you’ve noticed that over the past few years, a number of MSDN blogs have been created that deal, at least in part, with SharePoint...

Those of you who are interested in learning more about how to use Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 should take a look at our recently published technical article, “ Understanding Visual Upgrade ,” by Ted Pattison. This and other upgrade resources are...

Update, February 10, 2011: See the MSDN version of this article: Application Lifecycle Management in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 . November 2010 Applies to: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio...

The SharePoint Server 2010 social data object model enables you to create your own activity types and publish activity events in custom applications. One important limitation, however, is that only users who have User Profile Service Application administrative...

Microsoft has released the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable . The assemblies for the .NET and Silverlight versions  of the SharePoint client object model are included. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll Microsoft.SharePoint...

When developing for SharePoint, you sometimes need to find the four-part name for an assembly. You can do this inside of Visual Studio 2010 using PowerShell. It’s pretty straight-forward. In the Tools menu of Visual Studio, click External Tools. In the...