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SharePoint 2010 Downloadable Content

Scott — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:24:37 +0000

Microsoft provides a number of free resources for “getting to know” SharePoint 2010. Note that the most of the CHMs are updated monthly.

Downloadable Books

Downloadable CHM

Updated Guidance: Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

Scott — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:39:04 +0000

Microsoft just released an updated version of it’s guidance for Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010.

From Microsoft:

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when designing and developing applications for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010. The guidance focuses on the building blocks that every developer needs to understand to become an effective SharePoint developer or architect.The guide is provided as a Help (.chm) file and has four core areas: application foundations, execution models, data models, and client models. Eight reference implementations illustrate the core concepts covered in the guide. The reusable class library provides code to help developers build more manageable, flexible, and testable applications. Source code is provided for all reference implementations and for the reusable library. The reference implementations have automated setup scripts to configure the applications.

Reference

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 Starter Taxonomies

Scott — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:54:26 +0000

The Microsoft SharePoint ECM team recently teamed up with WAND to release a starter taxonomy (free download). If you’ve been staring at a blank term store, this would be a place to start.

Reference

ECM Team Blog – Taxonomy–The Challenge of Starting from Scratch

Oracle Padding, ASP.NET Vulnerabilities, and SharePoint

Scott — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:51:26 +0000

The Microsoft SharePoint team has released specific guidance for a workaround for the recently announced ASP.NET vulnerability (Security Advisory 2416728). With a slight modification, this guidance will also apply to SharePoint 2007.

For SharePoint 2010, the relevant web.config entry will look like:

While for SharePoint 2007, the web.config entry will read:

SharePoint Guidance

Scott — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:24:05 +0000

From MSDN:

Designing and developing rich, robust Microsoft® SharePoint® applications can be challenging. The following releases are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when building applications for SharePoint. Each release contains guidance documentation, source code for reference implementations, reusable library code, and Quick Starts.

Definitely worth exploring further if you looking to see how others are building on top of the product stack and what the SharePoint MVPs view as essential for developing robust applications.

Reference

SharePoint Guidance on MSDN

Isolator for SharePoint by Typemock

Scott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:46:27 +0000

Typemock have just released their newest product, Isolator for SharePoint. Isolator is required to run the unit tests included in the latest release from the Patterns & Practices group for SharePoint guidance. Oh, and did I mention that you might be able to snag a full license?

Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here. The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free. for rules and info click here.