How To Open A Meeting Page Client Side - sharepoint-2010

I'd like to open a SharePoint 2010 meeting page from a client side, Win form, C# application. How is this done? There is plenty of documentation to open a site and a List page but almost nothing on this. Can anyone help?


I think you cannot open the page per se (unless you use a internet explorer wrapper). But you can get all the underlying data from that meeting (all data in sharepoint lives in lists) and render it in your winform page by rebuilding the page with winform layout, controls etc,
To extract the data you have a variety of options:
Client Object Model (check the item under building a console app) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857094(v=office.14).aspx
Using Sharepoint Web services - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee705814(v=office.14).aspx
Using the REST API - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798339.aspx
In your particular scenario I would go with the first option since it provides a more streamlined api for .net apps and allows among other goodies batching of commands which will improve the performance of your comms with the sharepoint server.

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Sharepoint 2010 Notifications across web applications

We have several SharePoint websites. I'd like to be able to send update notifications from one website to the others. Is there anything that can do this without purchasing 3rd party software? We are on a very limited budget. We do not have Exchange capabilities.
Thank you in advance,
Tara

Perhaps create a central site that is used just for notices, search crawl into a specific "notices" content source, and have all of your disparate sites have a web part to read the search content of that type (shared/not locked down) and display in a CSS-formatted web part so it's consistent messaging across all sites?? That way it's a business-process rather than relying on a "Send" or push mechanism you are simply relying on an updated search and the notice is then relatively immediate wherever the web part resides...

SharePoint 2010 chart web part displaying web analytics

Have anybody used SP2010 out of the box chart web part to display web analytics data? e.g most viewed page etc. Or know if this is possible or a way around this? I can't seem to find anything that suggest that you can, would like to not use any third party tools.

Noop. I worked on a similar assignment where I extracted data from WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ db.
I created SharePoint TimeJob which extracts data periodically and adds into a sharepoint List.
Later created Sharepoint application page with charts.js and Jquery to display charts based on the sharepoint list.
Note it is not advisable to directly access SharePoint Database. But my case was approved by my company.

Can you create Google Forms from Google Docs in an application?

I am thinking about app that will use google form and I need to create forms from that app. Is there a way how can I create form in google docs without using website but through some api or some other way?

I can offer an idea for a solution using Google App Script.
Since the beginning of 2013 you can create new forms using the App Script Forms Service API quite easily.
var form = FormApp.create(title)
.setDescription(description)
.setConfirmationMessage('Thanks for responding!')
;
The problem now is how to get that App Script running from your non App Script code.
You can use App Script to create a Web App that reacts to HTTP GET requests.
So putting it together, you may be able to create an App Script Web App that reacts to a GET request and when it gets the right URL parameters, it creates the form.

(Nov 2020) Yes, it is possible to programmatically create Google Forms. You can do it with Google Apps Script using its Forms service. You can also extend the code to read in the contents from Google Docs (with Apps Script's Document service) and use it for the creation of Google Forms.
I created a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) Add-on, which you can think of as a Google Docs extension, called GFormIt. Its original purpose was intended for teachers to write exams/quizzes, possibly with answers, in Google Docs, then automatically convert them to Google Forms to distribute to students who submit their answers into Google Sheets (the destination for Google Forms submissions).
Furthermore, if you (the teacher) provided answers to your test questions, GFormIt would also auto-submit your answers to the Sheet as if you were a student. If you do that, and use a tool like Flubaroo to grade the exam, you could designate your row in the Sheet as “the answer key.” You can learn more about how it works, including viewing a short video, at the GFormIt page linked above.
This Google Docs add-on, along with others for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc., are all certified/validated by Google and available for free to anyone from the Google Workspace Marketplace. (However, your admins may have to grant permissions for you to try to install them to your corporate Workspace account.) If interested in building your own add-on, please see the developer documentation and perhaps some of my introductory videos to get started, the most relevant being the one linked to at the top of this answer.
Apps Script is a serverless Google technology, meaning you write your code (using JavaScript) in the browser, and it is hosted by & executed on Google servers. If you wanted to create your own web app (and hosted anywhere), you would have to wait for a Google Forms REST API which does not exist at the time of this writing. (If we ever launch one, you'll find its documentation at https://developers.google.com/forms along with the others like Sheets https://developers.google.com/sheets, Gmail https://developers.google.com/gmail, Drive https://developers.google.com/drive, etc.)

Earlier this year (Mar 2022) the new Google Forms Api graduated from Beta. It is more powerful that the previous versions and caters for two main use cases:
Automated form creation and editing: Enables automated form creation
and editing. Enables rapid form generation from large volume question
banks or other data backends.
Reaction to Form responses: The API also enables developers to build
automations for acting on incoming responses. Examples include
developing real-time dashboards or visualizations and triggering
business workflows based on response data.
We have used it to build an integration that Creates documents and slides each time a form is completed: www.portant.co/google-forms-to-docs and it works really well.
I think the other key use case looks like it would be a good fit for you and others looking for a solution like this.
Cheers, James

Sorry, the API doesn't support programmatically creating forms.

Integrating Sharepoint Calendar into Web Forms

I'm attempting to add a calendar to one of our VB.NET Web Forms-based websites which will be used for scheduling purposes. We want to have this calendar sync with our corresponding Sharepoint calendar.
My problem is this: I know that I can integrate a Web Part into a Web Forms page; can said Web Part use a calendar from our Sharepoint site as its data source? If so, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks for your help; I've done a lot of looking online, and I haven't been able to find anything, one way or the other.

you can integrate the webform calendar with sharepoint calendar using the webservices exposed by sharepoint in your case you would require to use lists.asmx
http://dotnetdreamer.com/2009/06/04/moss-web-services-accessing-sharepoint-list-data/

How to build complex UI on Sharepoint?

All,
We’re building an intranet on Sharepoint 2010. One of the requirement is to have a custom webpart/sharepoint page as a view to an Oracle EBS and HRMS.
This view have little (if at all any) interactions with Sharepoint functionalities.
This view is pretty complex in terms of layout, so we will definitely benefit of using asp.net user controls, rather than building all controls programmatically.
All operations lives in a WCF service which encapsulates all calls to Oracle.
Here are initial ideas:
Control.Load through a WSP – is this still valid with Sharepoint 2010?
use SmartPart to encapsulate the user control
Other ideas? Stand alone aspx page perhaps?
I would be keen to know the pros and cons of the approach. Cheers

Simplest solution might be to use the Visual Web Part -project type in Visual Studio 2010. It allows you to build Sharepoint Web Parts like regular ASP.NET User Controls. Because of Visual Web Parts SmartPart is no longer needed in Sharepoint 2010.
You can consume the WCF service in the web part or you could use Business Connectivity Services to create External Lists and use the Web Parts to interact with those lists.
If you are familiar with Silverlight I believe you can also use that to build the UI for your Web Parts.