Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2010’

With SharePoint 2010, LINQ to SharePoint is now fully supported. It now offers the ability to work with strongly typed objects as well as the ability to use the LINQ syntax which is easier than using CAML. Another great advantage of using LINQ to SharePoint is that you can join SharePoint lists which can be […]

SharePoint 2007 didn’t have any client object model; as a result, only the server side api could be used to access SharePoint data when creating a Windows, WPF, Console, Silverlight or ASP.NET applications. SharePoint 2010 now provides the infrasctucture to easily use SharePoint data from those client applications thanks to the client object model. You […]

I’m attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas where Microsoft has just taken the wraps off of SharePoint 2010. Since it’s a new product release and Microsoft has done a pretty good job of keeping the lid on the functionality in the new product until now, there’s a very high level of excitement […]

Check out my SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Posts:   1. SharePoint 2010 Insights – Reporting Services and Chart Web Parts 2. SharePoint 2010 Insights – Excel Services and Visio Services 3. SharePoint 2010 Insights – PerformancePoint Review Part 1 of 2 4. SharePoint 2010 Insights – PerformancePoint Review Part 2 of 2   Enjoy!!

One of the best ways to get a taste for what’s new in SharePoint 2010 is to peruse the new Object Model. As you can imagine, the changes are substantial. There are literally hundreds of new classes and thousands of new properties and methods.   From my initial exploration, very few items appear to have […]

External Lists are a great new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allow you to expose your Business Connectivity Services (formerly known as the Business Data Catalog) entities to end users through the familiar SharePoint list UI. This feature supports both reading from and writing to your line-of-business data sources via SharePoint. The major benefit of […]

In the next version of SharePoint it is clear that Microsoft thought out the backup/restore strategy a bit more than MOSS. If you are someone that has ever had to do a subsite restore from a content database, you know what I am talking about. I will break down the three top improvements when it […]

One of the major improvements in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to centrally manage your farm health directly from SharePoint Central Administration. The Health Status menu gives you an at-a-glance view of services and issues on the farm as well as a place to fix these issues. Located in the Monitoring section of Central Administration, […]

Setting up SharePoint 2010 in a single server environment is even easier than it was on MOSS. The Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies 14 Preparation Tool (or as I like to call it the prep tool) takes a wizard approach to checking for and then setting up perquisites for SharePoint’s installation. The prep tool (packaged […]

SharePoint 2010 is official! The SharePoint Conference is underway in Vegas.   Pointbridge has posted quite a few SP2010 blog entries – see them here: Office 2010 Wave Blogs     I contributed three so far myself: Quick Managed Metadata Overview Enforcing Relationships in Lookup Columns Column Validation in SharePoint 2010