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SharePoint doesn't have any built-in HTML5 goodness, but don't let that stop you. Andrey Markeev demonstrates how easy it is to add HTML5 drag-and-drop support to SharePoint—and why that's just the beginning.

The LS application is used to interface to a SharePoint list (used as the dataset) to provide timestamp and delay code inputs to the SharePoint list.

The title of this article is a misnomer, but I still picked this title because it is indeed the problem we are trying to solve. The problem is session state, especially in-process session state, is just evil. It makes your application less predictable, less reliable, less scalable, and locks you out of possibilities such as Windows Azure.

MasterPages are SO much better in SharePoint 2010 that only in rare cases should you should make a page that isn’t based on one. Sahil explains why.

Using SPMetal to generate Linq to SharePoint classes

In this two series article, we will show how to create Facebook webparts. In this first part, we will develop the ShowWall webpart, that will enable you to fetch walls/posts made by a user on your own SharePoint portal. In the second part, we will develop the webpart for posting updates to Facebook.

When Microsoft designed a new employee rewards management platform, they turned to Business Connectivity Services (BCS), a feature of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, to edit employee information directly in Excel. We'll show you how they did it.

Hello, my name is Sahil, and I am a worsening SharePointoholic. SharePoint is built on ASP.NET 2.0 - pretty much like human beings are made up of carbon and water. There is a lot in SharePoint that isn’t in ASP.NET. Not only is SharePoint a complex ASP.NET 2.0 application, it also has numerous concepts for things such as profiles, role providers, authorization etc., that are different from ASP.NET.

This article is excerpted from Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 by Sahil Malik, published by APress, copyright 2010 and is printed with the publisher’s permission.

I have included some scripts my co-worker Oleg Petrychenko gave me to install Sharepoint 2007 from scratch