Category: SharePoint 2010

Bamboo Nation’s dedicated blog for SharePoint 2010 use cases, conference reports, and related news. Home of the “SharePoint 2010 Cookbook” series.

Using Common DLLs in Sandboxed Solutions

by Quang San | Jun 8, 2012 | SharePoint 2010

Office 365 brings a wealth of new possibilities to the development community. In a recent article, Hong Kong alone saw a 250% increase in new customers since the Office 365launch in June last year. For the SharePoint community, Office 365 provides the...

SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Fix ‘Unable to display this Web Part’ when Working with External Lists in SharePoint 2010

by Thy Quach | Feb 24, 2012 | SharePoint 2010

Contrary to the behavior of the BDC in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 creates Business Connectivity Services (BCS) through SharePoint Designer 2010, and not via Central Administration. This can be pretty strange for someone who’s used to the SharePoint 2007...

SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create a Custom Page Layout for Publishing Sites Using Visual Studio 2010

by Bamboo Marketing | Nov 23, 2011 | SharePoint 2010

As stated in an MSDN article, “Publishing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is fundamentally a means of authoring and displaying information using a set of templates.” An Office article adds: “Each publishing page is associated with a...

SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create, Configure, and Consume PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010

by Bamboo Marketing | Nov 2, 2011 | SharePoint 2010

PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010 is the next generation of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, as well as a totally new feature added to SharePoint 2010 for enterprise deployment. PerformancePoint Services has one major mission in life, and that is...

SPC11: Rob Koplowitz Presents ‘The Forrester Survey: Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration’

by John Anderson | Oct 5, 2011 | SharePoint 2010

Tuesday afternoon at the SPC, Rob Koplowitz, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, presented a session discussing the results of the Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey which was conducted in July. Invited to participate in the survey were...

SPC11: ‘More Than My: How Microsoft is Driving Social Adoption and Intranet Transformation’ with Internal Enhancements to OOTB SharePoint Social Features

by John Anderson | Oct 4, 2011 | SharePoint 2010

This morning at the SPC, Microsoft Senior Solutions Manager Chris Slemp and Senior Program Manager Sean Squires presented a session demonstrating their efforts to drive social adoption at Microsoft by implementing enhancements to the out-of-the-box social features of...