SharePoint 2010 adds some new features to support hosting environments, which we generally refer to as multi tenant support. In the beta release, the core multitenant infrastructure is not turned on by default. It requires a custom service application...

If you've followed my blog entries by now then you've seen quite a bit of information on throttling for large lists in SharePoint 2010. One of the things you may find is that you will have scenarios where you want to be able to toggle the enforcement...

Hey folks, I've had this happen to me a couple of times and it's driven me a little crazy figuring out what was going on. You may use Visual Studio 2010 to create a new SharePoint 2010 application. You do something innocuous like using (SPSite theSite...

I’ve already done one post with information on the new list throttling features in SharePoint 2010. This week the question came up about how that applies, or what applies, to throttling lists based on External Content Types (ECT). These are lists that...

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Hopefully folks are starting to get some use out of the multitude of SharePoint 2010 postings I’ve been tossing up here. This is a new one that I was a little hesitant to put together…given my history in SharePoint 2007 I don’t want...

Hey folks, there is going to be a couple of SharePoint 2010 developer events in the Florida area in December. They are going to be managed / taught by Paul Stubbs, who is doing a lot of our internal SharePoint development training work. The events are...

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new client side object model (hereafter referred to as the “client OM”) for retrieving data. It supports a subset of functionality contained in the server side object model, but generally speaking gives you ready access to...

In the first two parts of this posting I described the pattern you can use to retrieve data with the client object model (“client OM”). I showed how to use the same pattern to retrieve both a set of lists, as well as data contained within a single list...

In part 1 of this post, I described some general features of the new client object model (“client OM”) that is included with SharePoint 2010. I also walked through a pattern for retrieving a collection of all of the lists in a web using that object model...

In the first three parts of this series we’ve gone through quite a bit of code that shows how to retrieve data from lists. In this post, we’re going to show how to actually create a list and manage fields. In the client object model you’ll see a familiar...

The previous posts in this series have been pretty list-centric. In this posting we’re going to delve down a different path in exploring the client object model and talk about security. The client OM actually provides great support for working with the...

Time to wrap up this series and we’re going to mostly talk about managing web parts using the client object model. First, however, we’re going to take a quick peek at something else you can do, which is create additional Edit Control Block (ECB) menu...