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The SocialRatingManager object enables you to create a social rating for any specified URL. Because entries in Microsoft SharePoint Server lists and document libraries can be represented by URLs, you can create and retrieve social ratings for those items, and for any other SharePoint Server page. This topic demonstrates how to use the SocialRatingManager to create and retrieve social ratings and how to enable social ratings on a SharePoint Server in a custom application. The samples in this topic assume that you have added the following references to your Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 project: Microsoft.SharePoint Microsoft.Office.Server Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles System.Web Creating Social Ratings The overloaded SetRating method creates a single SocialRating object for the current user on a single specified URL. A social rating consists of a URL and an integer ranging from 0 through 5. It also can optionally consist of a string title for the rating and a Feedbac...

Overview Today I want to talk in depth about a feature of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) that shows you just how extensible the SharePoint 2007 platform is! That feature is the ability to add custom event handlers to sites, lists, items and content types in your portal. What is a custom event handler? A custom event handler is a .Net assembly that contains the additional business logic you need to run when the event occurs in SharePoint. Why did I pick this feature? Well, no portal or business application ever really lives in isolation to your other Line of Business (LOB) applications, and shouldn't! Your portal solution needs to be dynamic, expect change and work seamlessly with the other systems in your environment. So, you may ask, what does this have to do with Event Handlers? Well, event handlers allow you to add [SOMETHING] your business needs into the functionality of SharePoint. [SOMETHING] examples: o      Retrieve info...