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Deciding Between Custom Web Templates and Custom Site Definitions http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979683.aspx How to: Create a Custom Site Definition and Configuration http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454677.aspx Understanding Web*Temp.xml Files http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms447717.aspx Understanding Onet.xml Files http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms474369.aspx Customizing Site Navigation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms471078.aspx How to: Create a Custom List Definition http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms466023.aspx Creating Content Types http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479905.aspx How to: Add a Document Template, File Type, and Editing Application to a Site Definition http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa978104.aspx

  1. Introduction A workflow is a set of Actions that you want to do to resolve your business (Go to this link : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx). With Microsoft SharePoint Designer you can design workflows that add application logic to your site or application without having to write custom code. Using the Workflow Designer, you create the rules that associate conditions and actions with items in SharePoint lists or libraries, so that changes to items in list or libraries trigger action in the workflow. Ex.: You can design a workflow to automate the business process in you company like vacation request, leave office request….SharePoint Designer will help you create a workflow rapidly. But sometime, the default Actions that provided by SharePoint Designer is not enough or not adapt with business requirements like query user data from Active Directory, query data from other web site….To resolve this problem, you need to create custom ac...

  'Planning for Office 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010' at Microsoft's Launch 2010 Event in Washington, D.C. http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010/archive/2010/05/19/planning-for-office-2010-amp-sharepoint-server-2010-at-microsoft-s-launch-2010-event-in-washington-d-c.aspx   'Deploying Office 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010' at Microsoft's Launch 2010 Event in Washington, D.C. http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010/archive/2010/05/19/deploying-office-2010-amp-sharepoint-server-2010-at-microsoft-s-launch-2010-event-in-washington-d-c.aspx     'Configuring & Managing Office 2010 & SharePoint Server 2010' at Microsoft's Launch 2010 Event in Washington, D.C. http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010/archive/2010/05/19/configuring-amp-managing-office-2010-amp-sharepoint-server-2010-at-microsoft-s-launch-2010-event-in-washington-d-c.aspx

  With the official launch of SharePoint 2010 last week, we thought now would be a perfect time for us to share some resources to help you to get started evaluating and learning about the new release.  This post contains links to download evaluation software, guides, demo virtual machines and lots more, for both Developers and IT Professionals. 1. Check out the Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Launch Keynote and on-demand sessions , and the SharePoint 2010 Product Site on Microsoft.com 2. Download the SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide , the SharePoint 2010 Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and the SharePoint 2010 IT Professionals Evaluation Guide to quickly ramp up on platform updates and additions. 3. Check out the learning plans for IT Professionals , Developers and End Users and get started on your SharePoint 2010 learning plan. 4. Download the pre-configured Hyper-V SharePoint 2010 Evaluation and Demo Virtual Machine (~1.8GB) along with the...

  Go to this link for  SharePoint 2010 glossary: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee556558%28office.14%29.aspx or for SharePoint End Users http://www.rharbridge.com/?page_id=60&cpage=1#comment-73

  Ref:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287752.aspx An example of Plan for Permission Inhertance It is much easier to manage permissions when there is a clear hierarchy of permissions and inherited permissions. It becomes more difficult when some lists within a site have fine-grained permissions applied, and when some sites have subsites with unique permissions and others with inherited permissions. For example, it is much easier to manage a site that has permission inheritance, as shown in the following table. Securable object Description Unique or inherited permissions SiteA Group home page Unique SiteA/SubsiteA Sensitive group Unique SiteA/SubsiteA/ListA ...

  For IT professionals, SharePoint Server 2010 offers enhancements to drive productivity, a scalable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment. SharePoint Server 2010 Advanced IT Professional Training is a deep technical learning series for current SharePoint Server 2007 professionals who are looking to upgrade their skills to SharePoint Server 2010. More information at http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/sharepoint/ff420396(en-us).aspx Each module also has downloadable options: 1) Core Architecture of SharePoint 2010 2) Security in SharePoint 2010 3) IT Pro Management in SharePoint 2010 4) Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 5) Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 6) Content Management in SharePoint 2010 7) Composite Solutions in SharePoint 2010 8) Communities in SharePoint 2010 9) Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010 For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a business collaboration platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. Shar...

  Get the SharePoint Server 2010 download: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx Before install SharePoint 2010, please check your system to make sure SharePoint can run on your server: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx   There are four versions of SharePoint Server 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Client Access License features For organizations looking to expand their business collaboration platform to enable advanced scenarios. Use the Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, Web services, and Microsoft Office client applications; make better decisions with rich data visualization, dashboards, and advanced analytics; and build robust forms and workflow-based solutions. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise For organizations looking to create customer-facing public internet sites and private extranets using ...

  WebClient class is very useful when you need to download or upload date from or to the Web.  However, when you need to make a sequence of calls you find that WebClient does not preserve cookies set by the server between requests.  Fortunately, WebClient gives you an opportunity to handle cookies by yourself. The very simple solution is to override GetWebRequest method of the WebClient class and set CookieContainer property. Here is my implementation: public class CookieAwareWebClient : WebClient { private CookieContainer m_container = new CookieContainer (); protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest( Uri address) { WebRequest request = base .GetWebRequest(address); if (request is HttpWebRequest ) { (request as HttpWebRequest ).CookieContainer = m_container; } return request; } }

  Pex and Moles are Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools that help Unit Testing .NET applications. Video Guide http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/Pex-Unit-Testing-of-SharePoint-Services-that-Rocks/ (download link: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/9/2/1/0/9/4/pex_2MB_ch9.wmv ) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/ Document: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/pexsharepoint.pdf

  Ref: http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/monnette_jeff/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=27 Have you ever want to Rewriter URL for SharePoint. I am sure that is thing that you really want to do :). But there are not to much resources or guideline about this. I have found this topic via PointBridge.com, I did not implement for test it, but I think it will run well. ----------------------------------------------------- By default, SharePoint uses URLs like the following for the page that displays a post on a blog site: http://blogs.mycompany.com/blogs/blogger_name/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1 With a little code in an HTTP Module, we can support a much more user friendly URL format for displaying posts. In this example, I will show you how to create a module that implements URL rewriting and response filtering to support URLs that look like this instead: http://blogs.mycompany.com/blogs/blogger_name/1/blog_post_title Not only is this format more friendly to users but it can also incr...