White papers- Coding

An Architectural Introduction to Web Parts and ASP.NET
This white paper discusses the technology behind Web Parts. The paper begins by discussing ASP.NET and describes the fundamentals of a Web Forms page. This discussion segues into a high-level overview of building a Web Part using Visual Studio.NET 2003 including mention of the interfaces that a Web Part needs to expose in order to be connectable to other Web Parts.

Analyze Detailed Usage Data in a Deployment of Windows SharePoint Services
Learn how to parse the log files that Windows SharePoint Services produces when logging is enabled, and explore a sample that demonstrates basics for creating a parsing tool to extract information about site usage.

Back Up and Restore Sample for SharePoint Portal Server
Use these programmatic steps to help you write an application to perform a disaster recovery of a Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 farm.

Building Accessible Web Sites with FrontPage 2003
This white paper provides information on features, design techniques, and suggestions for creating accessible Web content to enable anyone, including users of assistive and alternative technologies, to access the information on a Web page.

Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API
Chris Kunicki discusses how to build a research library, a cool new feature of Microsoft Office 2003 that allows the easy research of external resources from within Office.

Connecting Web Parts
Learn to convert dashboard Web Parts to the Web Part infrastructure. Read an overview of Digital Dashboard technology and the Web Part infrastructure, including the dashboard features implemented in the Web Part infrastructure and the enhancements introduced in the new architecture.

Converting Dashboard Web Parts to the Web Part Infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Learn to convert dashboard Web Parts to the Web Part infrastructure. Read an overview of Digital Dashboard technology and the Web Part infrastructure, including the dashboard features implemented in the Web Part infrastructure and the enhancements introduced in the new architecture. This paper is intended to be a developer reference that you can use with the Microsoft SharePoint™ Products and Technologies Software Development Kit (SDK).The SharePoint Products and Technologies SDK contains additional reference material that is not included in this paper.

Create a Web Part to Display Search Data for SharePoint Portal Server
Step through the creation of an end-to-end solution that performs the collection and viewing of search-related data from a computer running SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Creating and Applying an XML Resume Template in Microsoft Office Word 2003
Use XML in Microsoft Office Word 2003 to create user-friendly templates. In this article, learn how to mark up a template to create a resume template from which users can create resume documents that can be displayed on a FrontPage-based Web site.

Creating Custom Interactive Buttons
Learn how to add your own button designs to the selection of available interactive buttons. After you have added your own designs you can create interactive buttons from within FrontPage in only a few clicks of the mouse.

Creating an End-to-End XML Solution with Word 2003 and Excel 2003
Frank Rice and Paul Cornell walk you through a simple end-to-end solution that demonstrates how XML has made it simple to move data from one Microsoft Office application to another.

Creating Dynamic Menus in Your .NET Applications
Frank Rice demonstrates how to use the MainMenu control to create customized menus based on menu selections, both at design time and programmatically, which results in a more professional and versatile presentation of your application.

Creating Event Log Messages for a Document Library in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Use this article and code sample to enable event log messages for a document library in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. This article provides a walk-through of how to create an event handler for use with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Download the code sample and modify it for your own environment. Download CreatingEventsinaDocumentLibrarySample.exe.

Creating Self-Updating Applications With the .NET Compact Framework
Learn to create self-updating applications using .NET Compact Framework. The self-updating application infrastructure consists of two major parts - an updater applet and a web service that provides information about update availability and location. This sample shows how an application can be "automagically" updated from the mobile device.

Creating Site Definitions for Windows SharePoint Services
Learn how to create a custom site definition for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites. This article provides an understanding of how Windows SharePoint Services V2 site definitions work internally and how the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) defines the structure of lists and views.

Getting into XML with the Microsoft Office System
Bill Coan provides a beginner's walk through of XML and reviews the benefits of XML across all XML-enabled Microsoft Office 2003 programs.

Integrating Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
Use the Microsoft Office System, including Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2003 to develop integrated, form-based solutions that streamline existing information-gathering processes.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Code Access Security
Learn how to implement policies for code access security for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and how to customize default security settings for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. This document also answers some of the most commonly asked questions about code access security and its applicability to Windows SharePoint Services.

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out- Working with Script Code
Learn about how FrontPage has the capability to create certain kinds of scripts without programming and how to enter script code from within FrontPage.

Microsoft Office System and XML: Bringing XML to the Desktop
Discover how the Microsoft Office System brings XML to the desktop through support for custom schemas in Word 2003 and Excel 2003, to FrontPage 2003 as an authoring environment for XML-based sites, and XML as the native file format for InfoPath 2003.

Microsoft SharePoint 2003-Web Parts
The most common development tasks you will perform when working with Microsoft SharePoint is creating Web Parts and working with them. Find out how to develop and use them.

Migrating from SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
This migration planning white paper is part of a series designed to help Microsoft customers understand, plan, and implement the changes required to migrate from SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

New XML Features of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 Object Model
Use the new XML features of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 object model to manipulate files with code. Among other possibilities, the XML-based capabilities of Word allow you to harness the power of XSLT to transform document content into whatever format you need. You can apply these conversions to a single part of a document to create a mailing label from plain text, or to the document as a whole to convert an e-mail into a sales order.

Office Talk: The Definitive "Hello World" Managed Smart Document Tutorial for Microsoft Office System
Learn to create, deploy, and use a smart document solution as you encounter all the essential milestones in smart document development and gain a foundation in the technology that will help you as develop more complex solutions.

Programming the Office Web Components
In this session, we'll cover the fundamentals of development with these controls. Included is a discussion of how the Office Spreadsheet Component builds upon Microsoft® Excel's feature set. Also, we'll discuss the basics of business integration solution building using the Chart and Pivot controls, including how to connect the controls, connect to data and the terminology used in OWC object models.

Scripting Web Pages on the Server
Jim Buyens explains the fundamentals of using script code that runs on the Web server rather than on the browser, and then shows examples using both ASP and ASP.NET.

Smart Documents Development Overview in Microsoft Office 2003
This paper describes how to use, build, deploy, and secure smart document solutions, with a focus on the impact to administrators. Learn how to create customized, context-sensitive task panes that interact with XML-based files in Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003.

Tips and Tricks for Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Learn how to perform a number of basic tasks in a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment. This white paper will help you learn to use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and will introduce you to the basic features and principles of portal site navigation and customization.

Upgrading a Web Part Assembly for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Upgrade a Web Part assembly for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, including adding, deleting, renaming, repurposing, or upgrading properties for a Web Part.

Using FrontPage and Visual InterDev to Create Web Sites
Developers, writers, and designers can all work on the same Web project by using Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Visual InterDev in conjunction. Visual InterDev provides developers with a robust set of tools for developing Web applications, while FrontPage provides a WYSIWYG environment for editing pages that doesn't require programming knowledge.

XML and Microsoft Office Word 2003: Writing a Trip Report
Many companies have sales representatives that spend a considerable amount of time on the road at customer sites. Explore some of the ways that you can take advantage of the XML features of Word to make creating and filing trip reports easier. You will also see how to create a Word template and how to transform data from format to another.

Working with ASP.NET in FrontPage 2003
Discover how to use FrontPage 2003 to create high-end dynamic Web sites with ASP.NET.

Write a Back Up and Restore Application for SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Use the sample to learn the programmatic steps and code to back up and restore all SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites in the server farm. See the MSDN article for more information. (January 2005)

Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint Products and Technologies
Summary: Learn to create custom Web services for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and how to use the SharePoint Products and Technologies infrastructure to create a document upload Web service for remote document access. The accompanying downloadable sample provides a Web service for working with documents remotely from an external application.
 

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