K. G. Sreeju Nair

SharePoint 2010 supports two types of authentication modes. Classic Mode and Claims based. Classic mode supports only windows authentication, where in case of Claims based authentication you can use any of the supported authentication methods such as windows authentication, forms based authentication (LDAP, SQL Server, custom) and SAML token based authentication.

When you write applications based on Object Oriented Programming concepts, you need to define lot of classes. When you define classes in C#, you need to define member variables and properties. Usually you define member variables as private and you will expose these member variables with corresponding public properties. This gives you an overhead as you are forced to define private variables just to expose them as properties.

It is essential to have proper backup/restore strategy in place for your SharePoint farms. SharePoint 2010 provides three types of tools for backup/restore for your server farm. The tools are

Now most of the browsers have the support for HTML 5. From now, web developer’s needs to think how they can utilize the new elements arrived with HTML 5 in their web applications. In this article I am listing some major elements that every web developer will be interested in.

Since the advent of C#, one of the popular debate happened in the IT developer community was over the support for “optional parameters”. I saw lot of threads that speaks about this and most of the developers were in favor of optional parameters. The call is over. C# 4.0 introduces the support for optional parameters, an expected feature by developers for a long time.

SharePoint 2010 supports disk-based BLOB Cache that controls the caching for binary large objects. If you configure BLOB for frequently used images, audio files, video files, java script files, css files etc., the performance will be improved. BLOB cache needs to be enabled in the front end web server and once configured; the configured files will be retrieved from the database and stored in a directory under Front end web server. This reduces the network traffic/load on the database server.

Create a Visual Web part using Visual Studio 2010

Recently I was in a situation to enable form authentication for a SharePoint web application that was configured using classic mode authentication. So the solution for me is to change the authentication mode to claims based.