Sharepoint 2010

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IT Pro Tools for Customizing
SharePoint 2010
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Agenda
Platform Investments
Programmability
Integration
Extensibility
SharePoint Designer 2010
Other tools
Visual Studio 2010
Visio 2010 and SharePoint
InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint
Access 2010 and SharePoint

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WHAT’S NEW IN THE
DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
Walkthrough of the key changes in the platform

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Platform Investments
Programmability
LINQ
Entity based programming
Supports list joins and projections
List Relationships and Lookups
Support for creating joins
between lists
Lookups can enforce referential
integrity between two lists
Project columns
from referenced list
REST APIs
Ability to retrieve list data via
ADO.NET data services (Astoria)
Client APIs
Silverlight, .NET, JavaScript
Subset of full API
Batched for performance
Events
Custom error page redirection
New site and list events
Workflow
Site-scoped workflows
Customization of OOTB workflows

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Platform Investments
Integration
External Lists
Basis of Business Connectivity Services
Integrates SQL, Web Services, .NET Type
SharePoint List OOB Forms, Views
REST APIs for List access
Claims Based Security

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Platform Investments
Extensibility
Visual Studio 2010 includes most of the
SharePoint artifacts (Features, Web Parts,
content types, site columns, etc.)
VS2010 SPTools are based on an extensibility
model (MEF) so developers can build custom
artifacts and wizards
SharePoint 2010 evolves SSPs to service
application framework
More flexible and scalable
Developers can create custom service applications

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Improved Developer Tools
Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008 limited to Visual Studio
extensions for Windows SharePoint Services
(VSeWSS) for SharePoint development
Visual Studio 2010 includes full suite of rich
and extensible developer tools
SharePoint Designer 2010
Usage can be controlled in application
and in site collection level
No longer site page oriented
Now site feature/functionality oriented

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SharePoint 2010 Tools Continuum
Target Users
Technical Difficulty
Application
Complexity
IWs
PIW
RAD
D
e
v
Visual
Studio
SharePoint Designer
InfoPath
SharePoint Browser
UI

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SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010
What are the key changes on 2010?

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SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010’s focus has changed
from page-oriented to feature/functionality
oriented
SPD 2010 is THE tool for building complete,
rich, reusable, process-centric applications
on the SharePoint platform that integrate
with external data
Target Users
Primary: Business Unit IT, Power IW
Secondary: Developers
(Rapid Development, Prototyping)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Remains a Free Download

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SharePoint Designer 2010 Investments
New User Experience
SharePoint artifact-centric
navigation
Fluent UI Integration
Tools for all objects
New
BDC Entities
List Schema
Custom Actions
Task/Approval Designer
Improved
Workflow Designer
Page Editor
Unified packaging
Visual Studio 2010 can take SPD
created workflows
to extend and add custom code

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Giving IT Control over
SharePoint Designer 2010
New control features added to SharePoint 2010
and SharePoint Designer
Server and site collection administrators can enable/disable
on a Web app/site collection
Allow site to be opened in SPD
Allow customization of files
Allow customization of master pages and layout pages
Allow users to see the site URL structure
These options be set at the Web app/site collection level
Web app can allow customization of files, but site collection owner can
block it

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SharePoint Designer 2010
Improved UI, customization options,
and how to control…
demo

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Tool Flow – Moving Between
Create and
customize live sites
in the browser or
with SharePoint
Designer
“Save Site as
Template” now
produces WSPs
Use WSPs and
the Solution
Gallery to create
new site
instances
VS10 provides WSP
import allowing
transition to
structured
development
Feature upgrade
infrastructure
provides
mechanism for
updating
deployed sites
with new
functionality

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OTHER TOOLS
Other applications to modify the out of the box functionalities

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Visual Studio 2010
New project
templates for most
SharePoint objects
SharePoint Explorer
offers read
only view into
site collections

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Visual Studio 2010
Native development OOTB for SharePoint
Standardized WSP development and packaging
Can import WSPs from SPD or “save site as” in WSS
browser UI
Visual designers for creating most objects
Features, event receivers, Workflows, …
Full F5 debugging
Extensible – developers can create custom wizards
and SharePoint artifacts
Integration with TFS for a stronger ALM story
Sandboxed solutions

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Visio and SharePoint
Workflow design
Visual designer for SharePoint workflows
Export design to VS2010 for modifications
Visio Services
Workflow Visualizations
PNG rendering of Visio files
Data connectivity and refresh
from SQL, WSS lists, Excel Services

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InfoPath2010 Scenarios
withSharePoint
SharePoint List Solutions
One or more SharePoint lists
Start with auto-generated form,
built-in page and section layouts
Simple business rules authoring
One-click deployment
Work offline with SharePoint Workspace
SharePoint Workflow Applications
Multiple portals, form libraries and lists
InfoPath forms
SharePoint Designer workflows
Sandbox solutions
Business Connectivity Services

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InfoPath 2010 and
SharePoint
Improved integration
demo

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Access Data Services
andAccess 2010
IWs create data centric Web applications with Microsoft
Access 2010
Familiar database design tools to create relational
applications on SharePoint 2010
Application = SharePoint Site
SPD or other tools cannot be used to customize the site
Single point of IT maintenance for IW to create and run
applications. Application server
Scale out with load balancer
Throttles keep farms healthy
Follows SharePoint application and security model

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Summary
Platform Investments
Programmability
Integration
Extensibility
SharePoint designer 2010
Other tools
Visual Studio 2010
Visio 2010 and SharePoint
InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint
Access 2010 and SharePoint

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