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SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database.

Over the years many things have changed – but some haven’t – like – SharePoint still uses a single database table to store ALL items in any SharePoint List. And this brings me straight into the #1 problem I have seen when working with companies that implemented their own solution based on SharePoint…

Camlex.NET 2.0 brings to Sharepoint developers new opportunities like dynamic filter conditions, search by field ID and other.

SharePoint 2007 was a developer platform. But it took a developer with the patience of Job and the intelligence of MIT to deal with the bad development tools that we used to work with in SharePoint 2007. The picture in SharePoint 2010 is a lot better!

Microsoft SharePoint is a fantastic tool for enterprise document management and collaboration. But having said that, there are challenges that come up when integrating this system into your corporate disaster recovery planning. In this article, I'd like to explore some of these challenges and offer potential solutions.

Innovative solutions sometimes require multiple ingredients. Find out how to mix it up with SharePoint, WCF, and Silverlight.

Merge your SharePoint development with WCF to work around some of SharePoint 2007's problems and enable the thin .NET development model.

If you're still deploying SharePoint solutions manually, find out how to automate the process and eliminate a major source of deployment problems.

Discover several ways to search SharePoint efficiently, searching lists, sites, and even entire SharePoint installations.

This article describes uploading files in a sequence to a SharePoint Document Library and then using CAML, updating each file's custom meta data. This article also also describes how to use DWS web service to create folders/subfolders in a Doc Lib and how to use List web service to upload/update files inside Doc Lib.

A SharePoint 2007 Web Part demonstrating CAML queries for retrieving regular and recurring SharePoint Calendar List items.