NOTE: The solution described below is only necessary if your web page and custom control are in the same project. I had this really not fun time this week blowing a couple of hours on something that should have been zero impact so I thought I'd share...

NOTE: This posting is a very small part of one section of a new whitepaper coming out on claims and SharePoint 2010. Look the whitepaper later this year or early next year. SharePoint 2010 provides the ability to retrieve list data through a REST interface...

I've seen this error happen a few times to myself and others so I thought I would share the likely culprit. The scenario is, you set up claims authentication in SharePoint 2010...and you're pretty sure you've configured everything correctly. :-) When...

I just wanted to pass on a couple of tips for Azure development that I've recently found to be helpful. The first is around connection strings. When you use a connection string, you typically store it in the project properties. The labs usually demonstrate...

You may find yourself in a scenario where Active Directory isn't available across your entire solution scope. For example, if you have a solution that perhaps starts out in SharePoint, but then has to go fetch data or other resources from some repository...

I’ve been doing some work lately (that will be fodder for future posts) on more of the end-to-end integration story with SharePoint and other applications, and using claims authentication to flow identity across application boundaries. One of the...