Creating applications using SharePoint

Resources to help you develop manageable solutions for your organization to create, share, and collaborate on team databases; be more productive with Microsoft Access 2010 developer enhancements, and get started faster with one-click community templates.

This video drills into creating simple no-code BCS solutions from out-of-box capabilities of SharePoint Designer 2010 to more advanced, complex, custom BCS solutions using Visual Studio. (Length: 9:37)

Do you need more than the services provided by SharePoint? In this advanced session targeted at high-end developers, you will learn how to create a custom SharePoint service. (Length: 36:31)

In this video you will learn about the types of applications that you can create using the BCS. (Length: 8:05)

Learn to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications for robust, scalable, and fault tolerant shared services in this visual how-to video, overview, and code sample.

Explore the code in this visual how-to article as you learn to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications for robust, scalable, and fault tolerant shared services.

Watch this visual how-to video as you learn to create custom SharePoint 2010 service applications for robust, scalable, and fault tolerant shared services.

Explore the code as you learn how to create a claims provider for a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 forms-based authentication web application.

One of the most common questions that I get from prospects as I'm talking to them about the creation of a governance plan and process is what does it look like. In other words, there are materials available which describe what should be in a governance plan but there isn't a ton of guidance on what the process of creating a governance plan and process are.

Instead of creating new list items from code in your workflow you can use CreateItemActivity. CreateItemActivity can be used for creating list items or files. Properties of interest for this activity are the following (most of them are self-explanatory):