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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Latest Software Development Kit (SDK)

Last Friday Microsoft released WSS 3.0 SDK  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=05e0dd12-8394-402b-8936-a07fe8afaffd&DisplayLang=en  The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Windows SharePoint Services as a platform.

The SDK includes information about the following technologies: 

  • Web Part Framework   Create, package, and deploy Web Parts on SharePoint sites. 
  • Server-side object model   Work with individual lists and sites or manage an entire Windows SharePoint Services deployment. 
  • Web services   Use default Web services, or create custom Web services, to interact with Windows SharePoint Services from external applications. 
  • Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML)   Customize the schemas that define lists and sites, define queries for use with members of the object model or Web services, and specify parameters for use with methods in Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol.
  • Master Pages   Specify all of the shared elements of your site in the master page or pages, and add content page-specific elements to content pages.
  • Workflows   Create workflows that encapsulate business processes to be performed on items in Windows SharePoint Services, and attach those workflows to items in Windows SharePoint Services.
  • Custom Field Types   Create custom field types that conform to your business data. These custom field types can be based on the base field types already included in Windows SharePoint Services, and can include custom data validation, field rendering, and field property rendering and processing.
  • Information Rights Management (IRM)   Specify IRM for files located in document libraries and stored as attachments to list items. Create IRM protectors for your own custom file types.
  • Document Property Promotion and Demotion   Use the built-in XML parser to synchronize the document properties and list column data for XML documents. Create document parsers to do the same for your custom file types.
  • Search   Use the new Query object model and Query Web service to retrieve search results. Search in Windows SharePoint Services now shares the same SharePoint search technology used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  Also included is the Workflow Developer Starter Kit for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which helps solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers write custom workflows for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
It contains the following: 
  •  Visual Studio Project Templates o    Sequential Workflow Library o    State Machine Workflow Library
  •  Sample Custom Workflow o    Simple Collect Feedback using ASPX forms

    Note: You can also view the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK online in the MSDN Library.
Published Jul 17 2007, 12:56 PM by LovedJohnySmith
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Christopher Steen said:

Materials from "Using Behaviors to Flex Your WCF Muscles" posted [Via: tom.fuller ] MSDN Nuggets and...

July 18, 2007 12:16
 

Nick said:

Your install contained the Collect Feedback sample then? It seemed to be missing when I installed the July SDK on my systems.

July 18, 2007 6:45
 

LovedJohnySmith said:

Hey Nick,

Please see if the below helps you, let me know if it doesn’t.

Additional Information

This package does not collect any personal information.

The default installation directory is [system root]:\Windows SharePoint Services Developer Resources\Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK.

Known Issues and Workarounds

Visual Studio Workflow Templates

Issue: Workflow templates do not appear as new Project types in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Fix:

1.       In Visual Studio, open a Command Prompt window.

2.       Type devenv /setup and press ENTER.

Issue: Code snippets do not appear in Visual Studio.

Fix:

1.       In Visual Studio, on the Tools menu, click Code Snippets Manager.

2.       Change the language to XML.

3.       Add [System]:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\1033\Snippets\Windows SharePoint Services Workflow to your snippets.

Workflow Samples

Issue: Editing tasks in the ASPX Collect Feedback sample may produce the error "File not found."

Fix: The TaskWorkflowContentType project in the ASPX Collect Feedback sample might not build automatically when you build the solution. To fix, follow these steps:

1.       Right-click the TaskWorkflowContentType project, and then click Rebuild.

2.       Run InstallAll.bat to reinstall the workflow.

Issue: Cannot modify existing content type association in the ASPX Collect Feedback sample.

Fix:

Replace the following:

  m_assocTemplate.SetTaskList(taskList);

  m_assocTemplate.SetHistoryList(historyList);

with the following:

  m_assocTemplate.SetTaskList(m_taskListName);

  m_assocTemplate.SetHistoryList(m_historyListName);

July 18, 2007 8:09 PM
 

giri said:

Web services   Use default Web services, or create custom Web services, to interact with Windows SharePoint Services from external applications

As per the below enhacement, how can i create the own webservices for accessing the sharepoint portal services?

August 2, 2007 5:31
 

Nadine Whitfield said:

Ummm, perhaps I'm missing something, but I opened the "BasicCollectFeedback" code sample from the WSS 3.0 SDK and it doesn't have any aspx forms in it!  

All I see is InfoPath form URNs and the MOSS aspx pages. What happened? Did someone pull a switcheroo?

What a cruel joke!

August 16, 2007 7:43 PM
 

ckdurand said:

I'm having a hard time finding smippets for this.  I work with VB.net - is everything written in C#?  Is there a way to write something in vb for this?  

August 17, 2007 1:38 PM
 

ArjanH said:

Hi, im using Sharepoint Services 3.0 and im trying to activate the 'Service Search' when i try to i get an error 'File Not Found'

do u have any suggestions?

my email is arjan.houwers@gmail.com i would be really happy with usefull feedback!

thx in advance

August 24, 2007 8:33
 

tonto said:

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October 2, 2007 11:54

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