July 2008 Entries

SharePoint Web Services

Building custom applications for the SharePoint 2007 platform can be done using the WSS and MOSS object model. However, if you can't or won't deploy your code to the WSS server you can also use the WSS Web Services. I must admit that I hardly ever use them, and that I always thought they were not very well documented, but I found some great information here. The WSS Web Services are part of the Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer namespace. The web services include methods to accessing and customizing SharePoint site content such as lists, site data, forms, meetings, document workspaces, and...

MOSS Development: Back to the Basics

On October 6 and 7, the Software Development Network hosts the seventeenth SDN Conference in Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands. During this two day conference several international speakers will share their knowledge about .NET, Information Worker, Usability, Architecture, DotNetNuke and many other topics. During this conference I will present two sessions, "MOSS Development: Back to the Basics" and "Exploring the Architectural Boundaries of MOSS". Right now I'm working on the first one, and while gathering information I came across this very interesting list of Visual How Tos for SharePoint. Donald Hessing pointed this site out to me, which also has...