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"The SharePoint front-end is for wimps, real men use the SharePoint API's"

Tony Testa posted on February 14, 2008 14:08

Unfortunately due to weather, the Philly Office Geeks meeting was cancelled so I was never able to present about the SharePoint API's. I was also pretty bummed because I got some pretty funny/geeky T-Shirts made up that I was going to give away after the speech.

On the plus side for you, is that I've placed my presentation slides and code samples up on this site. The samples consist of a WinForms application that has roughly 12 examples how just SOME of the things that you can do with the SharePoint API. I think that the samples do a good job of showing you some of the basic concepts around developing against the SharePoint API, as well as get show just how powerful and useful programming against the API's can be. I frankly could have made up at least another 12 code samples (which I hope to finish and put up in the Code Samples section of this blog). One of the samples I'd really like to build out is the backup sample.

I believe that the meeting will either be rescheduled, or else I'll present at another one of the monthly meetings, so all my work of preparing for the presentation won't be in vein.

PhillyOfficeGeeksSharePointAPI.zip (1.15 mb)

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jragan

July 18. 2008 11:44

The MAJOR advantage to this method (and the real reason it was added) is that it allows for uploading a document with its metadata. This sounds trivial but the problem is when you have workflow-driven apps that are watching for the insert event of a new document into sharepoint. The "normal" way of uploading a document and its associated metadata is a two-step process which means your workflow apps will kick off from the document insert but the required metadata won't be there yet so things get screwey (or you have to make a delated second call to get the meta data). With this new method, the insert event will fire AND the metadata will be there.

Previously (and currently, actually) you could have used the SharePoint RPC-based Front Page Server Extensions (FPSE) to achieve the same thing. MS doesn't support or suggest use of FPSE though many MS-Award-Winning products still do