SharePoint Development For Asp Net Developers

SharePoint Development for ASP.NET Developers
Presenter: Corey Roth
Enterprise Consultant
Stonebridge
Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com

Corey Roth
Consultant for Stonebridge
Worked in Consumer Electronics, Travel, Advertising, and Energy industries
Currently doing MOSS development specializing in Enterprise Search and ECM
OSU Graduate
Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE) Winner
E-mail: corey.roth@gmail.com
Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com (mirrored on sharepointblogs.com)

SharePoint 3.0 or MOSS 2007?
SharePoint 3.0 (WSS) is included with Windows Server
MOSS extends the features of WSS
MOSS requires a separate license
MOSS includes Business Data Catalog (BDC), Enterprise Seach, Excel Services, My Sites, KPI dashboards, People Search, Forms Services, etc.

Environment
Virtualization – Windows Server, WSS or MOSS, and Visual Studio installed
SharePoint on Remote Server – Requires remote debugging
SharePoint on Vista – Works but not supported

SharePoint Basics
Farm – Represents the collection of servers of the SharePoint deployment
Web Applications – Typically one or more of these maps to a web site in IIS (i.e.: Port 80)
Site Collection (SPSite) – Will have at least one. Groups sites together
Site (SPWeb) – Represents a site or subsite in a Site Collection. Contains pages, lists, etc.
Feature – Allows code and SharePoint changes to occur at the click of a button

What’s different about SharePoint development?
Environment
Deployment
Pages and Sites
Must deploy DLLs to GAC or use Code Access Security if deploying to bin folder
User controls must be hosted by a web part

12 Hive
Location of most key SharePoint files: C:Program FilesCommon Filesmicrosoft sharedWeb Server Extensions12

12 Hive (Continued)

Building a User Control with Visual Studio
Web Application Project
Reference Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
Must be registered as safe for SharePoint to execute
Typically deployed to bin folder using Code Access Security
Controls are typically deployed to the CONTROLTEMPLATES folder in the 12 hive.
_ControlTemplates Virtual Directory
Complete instructions are on my blog

SafeControls
SharePoint won’t execute a web part or user control unless it knows it is safe
Declare an assembly and namespace safe in web.config
SafeControls element
Can be automated using a solution package (.wsp)

SharePoint API
SPContext – Used to get reference to the current site or site collection
All uses of SPSite or SPWeb must be disposed (use a using statement)
Most collections do not have an “Exists” method
Most objects require a call to .Update to save any changes made
Some API calls require elevated security – Pass a delegate to RunWithElevatedPrivleges

Deployment Options
Manually copy binaries, feature files, pages, and controls to appropriate folders on SharePoint server
Create a Feature – Would still have to manually copy files
Create a Solution Package (.wsp) – A cab file that contains a manfiest telling SharePoint how to deploy

What the Solution Package does…
Backs up your web.config
Changes the trust element to WSS_Custom in web.config
Backs up trust configuration file – wss_minimaltrust.config becomes wss_custom_wss_minimaltrust.config
Changes the path to the trust configuration file in the web.config <trustLevel> element
Adds code access security settings from manifest.xml
More information on my blog

Building and Deploying a Web Part
Deploys similarly to a user control
.webpart (or .dwp) file tells SharePoint where to find the web part’s code
Use a feature to add the web part to the gallery
Complete instructions can be found on my blog

Feature Receivers
Feature Receivers allow you to execute code when a feature is Installed, Uninstalled, Activated, or Deactivated
Create a class that inherits from SPFeatureReceiver
Configured in Feature.xml
SPFeatureProperties.Feature.Parent contains reference to SPWeb or SPSite object depending on scope of feature (must be cast)

References
Dot Net Mafia Blog
http://www.dotnetmafia.com
Office SharePoint Server SDK
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx
STSDev
http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev
SharePoint Blogs
http://www.sharepointblogs.com

Questions?

Thanks
Corey Roth
coreyroth@gmail.com
www.dotnetmafia.com

SharePoint Development For Asp Net Developers

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