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SharePoint 2010 Branding

Real World Branding with SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg430141.aspx#Y13640 The most important source of information is the  SDK . I can’t stress that enough. There is so much more documentation with this release than there was with 2007. However, we are all in the habit of looking to each other for information first. Researching the SDK and walking through the Development classes, even if you aren’t a developer. is an important step in understanding the complex relationships between the objects in SharePoint and ASP.NET. Planning Strategy and Design Visual Design SharePoint 2010 Layered Photoshop File!  – Erik Swenson Universal Usability Guidelines The Pursuit of Interface Design Simplicity  -Luke Wroblewski Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization  -Luke Wroblewski Common Visual Design Misconceptions  – Luke Wroblewski Usability 20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design Introduction to Good Usability 10 Useful Usa

Use Lists Web Server to get data in the SSRS 2008 R2 Reports

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Step 1: Ensure that you have a SharePoint List. In this demo, we will report against SharePoint Products List. Step 2: Understand the SharePoint List Web Service Interface. SharePoint has a lists.asmx web service which provides interface to download the SharePoint lists data in the non-SharePoint systems. You can access the SharePoint list web service using the  http://siteurl/_vti_bin/lists.asmx . You can use the GetListItems method which returns dataset to download all the list items for the specific list. Step 3: Create new Shared Data Source and Report Server Project Create a new Report Server Project in the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). First step of configuring the SSRS report is creating the new shared data source. Select the SharePoint List as a data source type and specify the SharePoint Site URL hosting the lists for the connection string. On the credentials tab, specify either windows authentication or no authentication if anonymous authenticatio