SharePoint RPC Day

It has been on my list for weeks but today I finally set aside a good chunk of time to do some R&D around SharePoint’s RPC capabilities. I have worked with the FrontPage Server Extensions RPC Methods before when I needed to programmatically upload documents to a Document Library. By using Mike Fitzmaurice’s sample I was able to get that up and running very quickly.

Today I did a little more digging into the FPRPC methods and also checked out the Windows SharePoint Services RPC Methods. Even though they’re pretty well documented I thought I would point out a few of my new favorites:

Want to create a new WSS Site?
create service

… don’t forget to provision your site afterwards:
SiteProvision

Want to know what WebPart pages are in a Web? What WebParts are on what page? How about what lists? Even better – want to lookup a list GUID by its title/URL?
get manifest allows you to get ALL kinds of information about a web and its related objects.


Maybe with confirmation that “the RPCs are here to stay,” we’ll see some more work being done with them!