http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/03/20/sharepoint-2010-provisioning-user-profile-synchronization.aspx

And for SP1 for SharePoint Server (Enterprise and Standard) information http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045. Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26623

While useful, the user interface is not particularly polished or easy to use. In particular, the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio must be run with the language set to “US-English”, otherwise date formats will be presented incorrectly and date/time filtering will not work.

Overall Description: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=971

Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=718447d8-0814-427a-81c3-c9c3d84c456e&displaylang=en

Documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh144782.aspx

• CAML Builder from U2U (http://www.u2u.be/Res/Tools/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx): Build and test your CAML queries and paste into your code.
• CKS (Community Kit for SharePoint, Tools Edition) (http://cksdev.codeplex.com/ ): Makes the SharePoint development cycle tolerable (almost). Version 2 was released May 2011.
• ULS Viewer (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer ) In my opinion, the best.
• SharePoint Manager (http://spm.codeplex.com/). Invaluable for browsing a SharePoint farm, viewing and changing parameters and option.

For uploading single or groups of files from the desktop or mail messages from Outlook I use, of course, our “SPDrag&Drop” tool. Take a trial by downloading from here: http://www.nickgrattan.net/SPDragDrop/ProductInfo.aspx

SPList spWPG = spWeb.Lists["_catalogs/wp"];  // does not work

 Instead, you need to use the following code:

SPList spWPG = spWeb.Lists["Web Part Gallery"];

Reference: http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com/2007/10/programatically-organizing-web-parts-in.html

• App_GlobalResources folder in the VirtualDirectories folder in inetpub (e.g. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80)
• Resources folder in the 14 hive (e.g. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources)
• Config/Resources folder in the 14 hive (e.g. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\Resources)

In general, a single resx file in your solution should be copied into each of these locations during installation.  This is how they are used:

• Resources files in App_GlobalResources are used when code in an ASPX page refers to a resource, e.g.

<asp:Label ID="lblNumberingTitle" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:GlobalSiteResources, AutoNameTitle %>" />

• Resources files in the Resources folder are used when referencing resources using the SharePoint object model, e.g.

btnExport.Text = SPUtility.GetLocalizedString("$Resources:GlobalSiteResources, Tab_Export", "GloablSiteResources", language);

• Resources files in the Config/Resources are copied into the App_GlobalResources folder whenever a new web application is created. By adding the resx files here you will ensure your application will be able to access its global resource files in new web applications.

The links cannot be hidden through the web part configuration user interface. Instead you need to:

1. Open the ASPX page in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010.
2. Locate the Chart Web Part in Code View.
3. Edit the ShowToolbar property from “True” to “False”.
4. Save changes.

Now these links will be hidden. You can use the standard drop down web part menu to access them if you need to without re-enabling them:

Object NG_Documents (previous name: Documents) failed in event OnRestore. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory.

COMException: The path specified cannot be used at this time. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070094)

To fix this problem you may need to apply this hot fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946517

Note that this is a hotfix that is applied to Microsoft Windows Server and not to SharePoint itself.

• Add an entry to DOCICON.XML

This file is located by default at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML. Open the file DOCICON.XML for editing and add the following line in the ByExtension element:

        <Mapping Key=”csv” Value=”icxltx.png” OpenControl=”"/>

This ensures that the Excel icon is displayed alongside CSV files.

Note: if you want to be prompted to open read-only or for edit remove ‘OpenControl=”" ‘ in the Mapping Key.

• Change the MIME type associated with the CSV Extension in Internet Information Server (IIS)

To do this:

1. Run the “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” application from the Start/Administrative tools menu.
2. Select the server in the left-hand pane.
3. Select “MIME Types” in the list of options in the middle pane.
4. Then locate the .CSV entry (it should already exist) and change the MIME type to: application/vnd.ms-excel, and click OK.

Once these configuration options are complete perform an IIS Reset.

CSV files should now be opened using Excel by default. You will be prompted that a change in file extension has occurred when using Office 2007. You will need to click Yes in this warning message.

In this code I want to clear out the list of users configured for a multi-select user column in a list:

                SPListItem li = ...; // get a list item
                SPFieldUserValueCollection uvc = (SPFieldUserValueCollection)li["View Form Groups"];
                if (uvc != null)
                {
                    uvc.Clear();
                }
                li.Update();

The code gets the SPFieldUserValueCollection object for the field, and if it’s not null, empties the collection and updates the item.

However, the list of users is not cleared in the list item. It seems that a copy of the collection is made, and it’s the copy that is cleared. Here’s the code to correct this problem:

                SPListItem li = ...;
                SPFieldUserValueCollection uvc = (SPFieldUserValueCollection)li["View Form Groups"];
                if (uvc != null)
                {
                    uvc.Clear();
                    li["View Form Groups"] = uvc;
                }
                li.Update();

In this case, the modified SPFieldUserValueCollection is copied back into the field and the list item updated.