The Great SharePoint Adventure

TPGSA401: The Great SharePoint Adventure

Duration: 5 days

Description:

This 5-day course with extended hours explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint 2007. The first half of the course focuses on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) where you will learn how develop fundamental WSS building blocks such as Features, application pages, site pages, Web Parts, custom list types, site columns, content types, custom workflows and site definitions. The second half of the course focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). You will learn how to assemble and configure business solutions by using and extending the portal and web content management features of MOSS as well as other server-side services such as the Business Data Catalog, Forms Services, Excel Services and Report Center.

Prerequsites:

Attendees should have professional development experience with Visual Studio 2005, the .NET framework and ASP.NET as well as familiarity with Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. It is also recommended (but not required) that attendees have a background with the previous version of Windows SharePoint Services V2 and have experience working directly with XML files in Visual Studio 2005.

Schedule of Lectures

1. Roadmap to SharePoint 2007 Development
2. Developing Features
3. SharePoint Architecture
4. Pages and Design
5. Master Pages and Site Branding
6. Web Part Development
7. AJAX Web Parts
8. Lists and Content Types
9. Document Libraries
10. Creating and Testing Site Definitions
11. Forms Services with InfoPath 2007
12. Developing SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio
13. Extending Portal and Search in SharePoint Server
14. Web Content Management
15. The Business Data Catalog (BDC)
16. Excel Services and Report Center
17. Application Security
18. Creating Office Business Applications (OBA)

Day 1

Roadmap to SharePoint 2007 Development

WSS as a site provisioning engine

Understanding Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites and Site Elements

Customization using the WSS collaboration templates

Site customization and personalization using Web parts

Overview of SharePoint Server 2007 components and services

Introduction to the WSS object model

Developing Features

The difference between customization and development

Features as the primary building block in WSS development

Introduction to Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML)

Creating and testing your first Feature with Visual Studio 2005

Adding event handlers to a custom feature

SharePoint Architecture

How WSS integrates with ASP.NET 2.0

Configuring the web.config file for a Web Application

Understanding site pages versus application pages

Creating and debugging a business solution with custom application pages

Creating and testing a WSS solution package for staging and deployment

Day 2

Pages and Design

Understanding page parsing and Safe Mode restrictions

Page templates versus pages instances (ghosting and unghosting)

Creating a Feature with custom page templates

Designing page templates using ASP.NET controls and Web Part Zones

Adding Web Parts to pages using declarative CAML and using code

Master Pages and Site Branding

Understanding the standard default.master page template

Navigation providers, navigation menus and delegate controls

Creating and integrating a custom Master Page template

Creating a custom Feature to apply branding at the site collection level

Understanding and extending the CSS classes in core.css

Web Part Development

Creating, deploying and debugging ASP.NET Web Parts in WSS

Adding Web Part verbs, persistent properties and developing custom editor parts

Creating Web Part assemblies with embedded resources

Creating connectable Web Parts

Asynchronous Web Part processing

Creating a Feature and a solution package for best-practice Web Part deployment

AJAX Web Parts

Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX

Creating an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET Application

Creating the “Hello World” AJAX-enabled Web Part

Creating AJAX callbacks to custom .asmx Web Services

Creating AJAX callbacks that access the WSS object model

Day 3

Lists and Content Types

Programming and querying lists through the WSS object model

Using Features to define site columns and custom field types

Using Features to define custom content types

Using Features to define custom list schemas and custom list types

Using custom event receiver classes to write and wire up event handlers

Defining a content type with built-in event handlers

Document Libraries

Programming with the SPDocumentLibrary class

Provisioning document libraries with custom document templates

Forms Libraries and Microsoft InfoPath integration

Programming with the Office Open File Formats

Server-side generation of Word 2007 documents (i.e. docx files)

Binding content controls to custom XML files embedded within Word documents

Creating and Testing Site Definitions

Understanding the role of WSS site definitions

The Global Site Definition

Creating and testing a custom site definition

Aggregating Features in a site definition

Defining Feature activation dependencies and leverage Feature stapling

Forms Services with InfoPath 2007

Creating input forms with InfoPath

InfoPath integration with WSS forms libraries

Forms Services Architecture

Designing server-side forms with InfoPath 2007

User deployment of server-side forms versus administrator deployment

Day 4

Developing SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Primer

Creating WF programs in Visual Studio with the workflow designer

SharePoint Workflow fundamentals: templates vs. associations vs. instances

Creating, deploying and debugging workflow templates in Visual Studio

Using WSS method activities to create history list entries and tasks

Creating custom association forms, initiation forms and task edit forms

Extending Portal and Search in SharePoint Server

Shared Service Provider (SSP) Architecture

Creating and extending Collaboration Portal sites

User Profiles and Audience Targeting

MOSS infrastructure for creating MySites

Configuring and extending MOSS Search

Web Content Management

Customizing sites creating from the MOSS Publishing Site template

Creating content types and custom page layouts for Web content

Understanding the MOSS content approval process

Converting Office documents into Web-ready formats

Optimizing performance with MOSS caching features

The Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Working with BDC Application Definition Files

Application, Entities, Methods and Associations

Surfacing backend data using BDC Web Parts

BDC integration with MOSS search

Creating custom Web Parts that execute BDC queries

Day 5

Excel Services and Report Center

Introduction to Excel Services

Publishing Excel spreadsheets that render in the browser

Trusted locations, connections and user-defined functions (UDFs)

Creating Dashboard pages with Report Center

Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and filters

MOSS integration with SQL Reporting Services and SQL Analysis Services

Application Security

Trust Levels, Web Parts and Code Access Security (CAS)

Windows Authentication versus Forms Authentication

WSS Identities and Security Contexts

Escalation of Privilege

Delegating User Credentials

Modifying permissions with the WSS object model

Creating Office Business Applications (OBA)

Using Visual Studio Extensions for Office 2nd Edition

Creating client-side solutions for Office applications

Developing add-ins for Word, Excel PowerPoint and Outlook

Creating custom ribbon extensions and custom Task Panes

Communicating with and accessing content from SharePoint sites

Courseware by Ted Pattison