Migrating file shares to SharePoint 2010 requires a lot of activities around Information Architecture to design the taxonomy according the business needs and provide rich content usability, but apart of this a large portion of file migration engagement takes the actual migration process. Migrating files to SharePoint is very time consuming process, due to the nature of SharePoint to store all content in Content Database. Therefore, all files that are published to SharePoint sho...

Developing SharePoint applications that use browser-enabled InfoPath forms requires a lot of interactions with the Web Services and it's usually done via DataSources properties of the InfoPath. You store all your connections to the Web Service into the DataSources and uses properties name to communicate. The tricky situation of DataSources is in deployment. When you compile and publish InfoPath form it includes the connection settings that you configured locally, and the InfoPath form wont wor...

Question: >> Hello, I'm using InfoPath with dozen of DataSources that query data from Web Services, lists and etc. I'd like to know how can I update DataSource URL at run-time and use URL from config? Answer: What you asked is very common question when InfoPath form need to be deployed from DEV to Staging and to Production environment and updating the DataSources manually is really daunting task. The easiest way to achieve desired behavior is using DataConnections class, instead ...

SharePoint 2007 Web Services model provided limited functionality to manage SharePoint farm over the web model. The reason of this is that SharePoint 2007 was considered as a stand-alone product, without Web 2.0 features and Cloud services. In nowadays, we are moving to Online services and rich Web Services model is one of the requirements for all products we are using, especially for enterprise wide applications that can be scaled globally. The release of SharePoint 2010 takes into account Web ...