Programmatically Accessing SharePoint List XML Data in C# Code

SharePoint list data can be accessed in custom applications in C# without using SharePoint Object Model or Web Services. The list data can be retrieved as XML using a specific URL to the list (even using a web browser). This is described in this post. This URL can be requested from within the custom code [...]

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SharePoint List Data as XML

Getting data as XML from a SharePoint List or Library is very helpful when we need to use the data in a custom application (developed using a programming language like C#) or in InfoPath forms. The data from a SharePoint list can be retrieved in XML format by using the following URL: <your site URL>/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List={<list [...]

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“The Web application at <url> could not be found” – Error with Visual Studio Custom Applications which uses SharePoint 2010 Object Model

Most of us might have seen this error while creating a custom application (console application, Windows application or custom web part) using Visual Studio targeting for SharePoint 2010. It’s not just this specific error but a lot of other weird error messages without any reason. The above error occurs when we create a new SPSite [...]

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SharePoint Tip: Best Timer Job is a Dumb Timer Job

Just came across this tip provided by Eric Gregorich from Secrets of SharePoint. It says “best timer job is a dub timer job”. What this means is, whenever you have to develop a SharePoint timer job which performs heavy tasks, extract the logic into another services that does the heavy tasks. This could be implemented [...]

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