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In SharePoint 2010, we have an out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that can host almost any Silverlight application. But in this fourth part of the Silverlight series, we’re going to show how to build your own web part that hosts a Silverlight application. In SharePoint 2010, we can develop two different types of web parts: a visual [...]

The popularity of SharePoint as a collaboration tool has understandably skyrocketed in recent years. With its sheer volume of user empowerment, the collaborative adoption scenarios are almost endless. However, the novelty of elevated user empowerment can quickly erode if you are required to maintain any sort of control, standardization, or guidance for your SharePoint environment. [...]

No, we have not turned completely mental, but I am opposed to the idea that we use storage location to categorize data. Let me tell you what I mean.

As your users interact with SharePoint pages in their browser, various events occur. The most familiar to you might be the click event or the hover event. In the fourth part of this series, we’ll explore how to work with these events.

In this third part of the series, I will build a Silverlight application that communicates with SharePoint to render data that is stored within a SharePoint list. The Silverlight app will again be hosted within the out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that comes with SharePoint 2010.

Martin Angler is back to wrap up the two-part mini series, introducing backup and restore for SharePoint 2010. This time, the topic is restore, and you’ll get a great overview of the various capabilities as well as useful tips and tricks.

“Leading Change with Kerri Abraham” is a new column here on SharePoint Magazine, where user adoption expert Kerri Abraham shares her knowledge and experience from running successful SharePoint sites with empowered end users.

In this third article in the jQuery in SharePoint series, I’ll give you a little overview of some of the things you can accomplish with manipulation and CSS.

You’d think that Sun Tzu, the great warfare strategist, wouldn’t know neither the up nor the down of modern software such as SharePoint. You’d be surprised at how much you can learn from ancient Chinese.

The battle for the collaborative application space has been long fought. Two key players, Lotus with their Notes/Domino platform and, more recently, Microsoft with SharePoint, have established their own collaborative platforms having different feature sets but a common goal – to allow individuals, teams, departments and organisations to work more effectively together. In this article, you will learn ideas and approaches to simplify moving from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint.