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SharePoint 2010 Developer Courses Live Online (Sep/Oct/Nov 2012)

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Hi folks!

Just a quick announcement.

I’m delivering 3 week-long SharePoint 2010 Developer courses based on Microsoft Official Course 10175. It’s all on-line, so delivery is over the web and live!

To attend, you’ll need:

There are three dates available:

Book now   24 September 2012 –£1570.00 inc VAT.

Book now   1 October 2012 –£1570.00 inc VAT.

Book now   26 November 2012 –£1570.00 inc VAT.

The courses run from 9:30 to 5:30 UK time, 5 days (Mon-Fri). Attendance is via web cam, over Microsoft Lync/LiveMeeting.

Over the five days, we cover:

  • SharePoint Object Hierarchy
  • Application Pages
  • Development with SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
  • Declaring List Definitions, List Instances and Fields
  • Packaging SharePoint Solutions
  • Web Parts (Server, Visual and Connected)
  • Server Object Model
  • Creating and Securing Lists and Sites Programmatically
  • Event Receivers – List, Site and Feature Receivers
  • Application Configuration (Editing Web.Config Programmatically)
  • Business Connectivity Service for SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
  • Declarative SharePoint Workflows
  • Workflow Foundation SharePoint Workflows
  • Client Object Model for JavaScript, .NET and Silverlight
  • Custom Actions and Ribbon Bar Customisations
  • Sandbox Solutions and the User Code Service
  • User Profiles and Taxonomy
  • Pages, Master Pages and Themes

…and more!

Places are limited, so book while there’s space! Smile

Prices include digital Official Curriculum (as PDF files), and access to our online lab environments.

Please feel free to call us on +44 1273 358282 or email us at [email protected]for more information.

Happy SharePointing!

SPSite and the Recycle Bin in SharePoint 2010 SP1

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Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 brought us a much-needed feature – the recycle bin for SPWeb and SPSite objects.

Recycling SharePoint Sites

If you want to move an SPWeb into the recycle bin programmatically, there’s the fairly-straightforward SPWeb.Recycle() method. Once you’ve invoked this, you can restore the SPWeb from the SPSite.RecycleBin object with the Restore() method.

But, how do I recycle and restore a site collection (SPSite)?

Recycling SharePoint Site Collections

Firstly, there’s no Recycle() method on the SPSite object. Invoking Delete() removes the SPSite immediately, unless you pass in an argument to get it to perform a gradual delete. The gradual delete process is carried out by the “Gradual Delete Timer Job”, whose purpose is to delete site collections efficiently 1000 database rows at a time.

However, it also has some nice side effects. The timer job only deletes site collections that were deleted more than 30 days ago (or whatever the recycle bin age is configured for the web application). In that intermediate time, the deleted site collections are available to be restored.

You can get at the deleted sites via the GetDeletedSites method of the SPWebApplication object. This returns a collection of SPDeletedSite objects, on which you can invoke the Restore method.

Sample Code

// get our web application
SPWebApplication webapp = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://sharepoint"));
// find our deleted site collection
foreach (SPDeletedSite site in webapp.GetDeletedSites("http://sharepoint/sites/myoldsite"))
{
    //restore it!
    site.Restore();
}

Enjoy!