What's New in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK
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Each update of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software development kit (SDK) contains significant new conceptual, procedural, and reference material to help developers create customizations and applications for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
New Content as of August 2008
This release contains greatly expanded documentation of backup and restore features, including a top-level node, Backing Up and Restoring. The node includes twelve articles, including Overview of Backing Up and Restoring Data in Windows SharePoint Services, as well as following How To topics:
How to: Programmatically Back Up and Restore a Single Site Collection
How to: Create a Content Class That Can Be Backed Up and Restored
Additionally, object model reference documentation in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Backup namespace is complete and code samples are provided for all critical types and members.
A new section, The Administrative Object Model of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, contains six new articles, including the following:
Additionally, the Windows SharePoint Services Administration section has a new, extended code sample, Code Sample: Using the Administration Object Model
The section that provides conceptual documentation of Web Parts, Web Parts in Windows SharePoint Services, has been completely restructured into sections to better support users:
Additionally, the following walkthrough topics have been significantly revised and rewritten:
You can find expanded and updated reference documentation of types and members in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow and Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions namespaces.
A new section entitled External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows SharePoint Services contains seven articles to support external storage architectures integrated with a SharePoint content database:
A new section entitled Selective Content Migration is located in the Content Migration node and contains three articles to support selective migration strategies:
Additionally, additions and revisions have been made to existing topics in the Content Migration Overview section, and a large number of API reference topics that supports migration and deployment scenarios have been completed in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment namespace.
Updated reference content is in the People Web service (websvcPeople), which you can use to associate user IDs with SharePoint security groups when setting Site permissions.
People Web service
PrincipalInfo type
SPPrincipalType enumeration
You can find updated or new topics for various methods of the following ActiveX controls, which Office installs on the client computer for interaction with Web sites:
New Content as of November 2007
New conceptual sections and topics that detail new features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 include:
ASP.NET AJAX in Windows SharePoint Services
This section provides overview information, installation instructions, and programming examples that introduce you to how Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX interacts with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Web Parts. Topics include:
Other new conceptual sections and topics include:
Workflow Actions Schema Overview
The section discusses how to use the Workflow Actions schema to create and deploy custom workflow actions. The section includes reference topics for each of the 14 elements in the schema, as well as an example .ACTIONS file:
Alerts in Windows SharePoint Services
This section provides 8 new topics of overview information and programming tasks to help you work with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Alerts.
Significantly revised sections and topics include:
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This section has been expanded with nine new topics, including the following new walkthrough:
In addition, reference material for all base field-rendering control types, and most derived types, in Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls has been expanded.
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This section has been expanded with 6 new conceptual topics, including the following new procedural and walkthrough topics:
Walkthrough: Customizing Item Titles on a Mobile Display Form
Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Field Rendering Control for Mobile Pages
In addition, reference material for all types in the Microsoft.SharePoint.MobileControls namespace has been added or expanded. The types in this namespace are now fully documented.
Working with Site Templates and Definitions
Several topics have been expanded.
All types in the Microsoft.SharePoint namespace that connected to auditing are now fully documented.
More than 80 code samples rewritten to adhere to the best coding practices as described in the following articles:
Greatly expanded reference material for 39 types in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace.
This update also includes numerous other updates and revisions to existing SDK content.
New Content as of June 2007
New conceptual sections and topics include:
New procedural topics include:
The SDK now also includes reference material that covers the following schemas:
Significantly revised sections and topics include:
In addition, the SDK now includes greatly expanded reference material for more than 300 types in the following namespaces:
The SDK also contains expanded reference material for the following Web services:
Authentication (websvcAuthentication)
Copy (websvcCopy)
SharePoint Directory Management (websvcSharePointDirectoryManagementService)
The June 2007 update includes numerous updates and revisions to existing SDK content.