What's New in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK
The April 2009 update of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 software development kit (SDK 1.5 release) contains documentation for new and improved features in the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers. In addition, it contains significant new conceptual, procedural, and reference information to help you create customizations and applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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The SharePoint Server 2007 SDK is also available as a download in the Microsoft Download Center. To download the SDK, see SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit.
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.5 Release
The following is a detailed breakdown of changes to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.5 and its contents.
New Version of Application Definition Editor
In the last release, if a return parameter had more than 300 fields, the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor would automatically truncate all fields except the first 300 fields, and there was no way to get to the truncated fields. The revised Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor addresses this issue by displaying all available fields in the return parameters and letting you choose up to 300 fields from the list of fields.
You should note that the editor allows you to delete only one field at a time. If you have several fields to delete, it will be less time-consuming to save the application definition with the extra fields (more than 300 fields), and then remove the fields in return parameters by using a text editor such as Notepad.
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Previous Release History
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.4 Release
The following is a detailed breakdown of changes to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.4 and its contents.
New and Improved Features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers adds new functionality to Office SharePoint Server 2007, including federated search capabilities for Enterprise Search. To download the update, see Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure update: July 15, 2008.
New Conceptual Topics and How Tos
See the following topics:
Architecture Guidance for Building Federated Search Connectors
Creating a Custom Federated Search Web Part with a Credentials UI
How to: View the XML Data Returned by Your Federated Location
How to: Customize the Title and Branding Icon for Federated Search Results
New Class Library Reference Topics
See the following topics:
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration (15 classes)
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Federation(2 classes)
Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls (23 classes)
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.3 Release
The following is a detailed breakdown of changes to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.3 and its contents.
New Conceptual Topics and How Tos
See the following topics:
New Web Services and Class Library Reference Topics
See the following topics:
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles (56 classes)
websvcUserProfileService (14 classes)
websvcUserProfileChangeService (2 classes)
Exception classes (multiple classes in various namespaces)
Internal only classes (multiple classes in various namespaces)
New Tools/Samples
See the following topics:
WCM Document Converters Code sample
Workflow Collect Feedback ASPX sample
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 Release
The following is a detailed breakdown of changes to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 and its contents.
New Conceptual Topics and How Tos
See the following topics:
How to: Create a Minimal Master Page (revised)
Provisioning Portal Sites (revised)
Portal Site Template File (revised)
Portal (Portal Site Template) (revised)
Webs (Portal Site Template) (revised)
Web (Portal Site Template) (revised)
New Web Services and Class Library Reference Topics
See the following topics:
New Tools
The Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 release includes developer tools and samples for the following areas of Office SharePoint Server 2007 development. New tools and samples are shown in bold.
Business Data Catalog Samples and Utilities
Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
Sample Pluggable SSO Provider
WSHelloWorld Web Service
WSOrders Web Service
Excel Services User Defined Function Sample
WSOrders Custom Proxy Sample
Amazon Web Service Sample
Samples
SAP Sample
Document Management and Content Processing Samples
Comment Scrub Document Converter
Term Replacement Document Inspector
Search Samples
Sample Protocol Handler
Custom Content Source
Records Management and Policy Samples
De-Duplication Router
Document Integrity Verifier
Records Center Web Service Console Application
Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
Sample Custom Barcode Generator
IRM Document Protector
Workflow Samples
Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
Custom Workflow Report XLSX Injector
Visual Studio Workflow Templates
Enterprise Content Management Workflow Activities
List Item Activities
Hello World Sequential Workflow
State Based Approval Workflow
Modification Workflow
Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
Intersystem Purchase Order
Confidential Approval Workflow
Group Approval Workflow
Approval Workflow Sample
Multi-Stage Workflow
Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 Download
Starting with the SharePoint Server 2007 1.2 SDK download (SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit), the following areas are new or improved.
Start Menu Navigation
With the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 download release, we offer a new Start menu shortcut that gives you quick access to documentation (compiled HTML Help, or CHM for short) files, and the Welcome Page (ReadMe.htm) that is a landing page with links to all the tools and samples.
Installation Improvements
With the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 download release, we offer you the ability to specify an installation location when you are installing the SDK. Just browse to your preferred folder during setup. The default installation path for the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK is <%Program Files%>\2007 Office System Developer Resources\.
Offline Experience Improvements
Starting with the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.2 download, the release includes technical articles, visual how-to articles, and book excerpts and the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission developer guide—packaged into one searchable CHM file. Now you can browse offline for content that has been published on MSDN out-of-band with the SDK.
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Several links in the MOSSSDK_TechArticles.chm and the WSSSDK_TechArticles.chm do not work in a strictly offline scenario. In addition, we did not package the WMV file screen casts or the associated downloads that go with articles, to keep the SDK download size manageable. The workaround for both issues is to browse the content online; for ease-of-use, the table of content in the CHM file is the same as the table of content on MSDN.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.1 Release
The following is a detailed breakdown of changes to the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK 1.1 and its contents.
New Conceptual Topics and How Tos
See the following topics:
Enterprise Search Protocol Handlers (multiple topics, new)
Updates to four Web Content Management topics
New Web Services and Class Library Reference Topics
See the following topics:
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles (over 40 classes)
IBarcodeGenerator
Updates to numerous Search Web Part classes
New content and updates in nearly 60 types in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.* namespaces:
See Also
Concepts
Other Resources
SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit
SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal