Programming SharePoint 2007 Applications with .NET: Hands-On

You Will Learn How To

Build robust SharePoint applications with .NET
Extend site capabilities with SharePoint Features
Optimise site performance through application pages
Construct custom Web Parts for drop-in page enhancements
Automate list and document processes with events
Simplify farm-wide deployments with Solutions

Course Benefits

SharePoint's .NET object model grants developers full access to customise SharePoint sites. In this course, you gain the skills needed to tailor SharePoint Web applications to fit your organisational needs. You learn to create and enhance new site functionality with SharePoint Features. You also learn to create sophisticated interconnected Web Parts that users can easily integrate with existing Solutions.

Who Should Attend

Those who are interested in customising SharePoint Web sites using .NET. Experience at the level of Course 503, "Visual Basic Programming for .NET", or Course 419, "C# Programming", is assumed. Experience with ASP.NET and SharePoint is helpful but not required.

Hands-On Training

Through an evolving case study, you gain practical experience building SharePoint applications using Visual Basic or C#. Exercises include:

Programming and installing SharePoint Features
Building application pages to improve multisite performance
Developing and deploying a custom SharePoint Web Part
Coding a custom list event for validation
Automating document processing with a workflow
Creating installable solutions

Course Content

SharePoint Application Fundamentals

Features
Site and application pages
Web Parts
Events
Workflows
Web services
ASP.NET

Extending SharePoint Features

Introducing SharePoint Features

Touring existing Features
Building reusable functionality
Enabling and disabling Features

Creating new Features

Authoring Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML)
Programming against the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) object model
Setting up Visual Studio 2008 for Feature creation

Activating developer Features

Specifying attributes with feature.xml
Designating elements with ElementManifests
Installing new Features with Solutions

Creating SharePoint Pages

Optimising site performance

Ghosting and unghosting
Leveraging application pages
Accessing the content database
Key classes: SPFile, SPFolder, SPWeb and SPSite

Defining page structure

Building custom WebControls
Working with user controls
Tailoring the core style sheet
Gaining programmatic control of site branding
Modifying site navigation controls at runtime

Enabling Page Customisation with Web Parts

Web Part essentials

Differentiating ASP.NET and SharePoint Web Parts
Hosting Web Parts in a WebPartZone
Orchestrating functionality with SPWebPartManager
Integrating user controls into SharePoint

Building custom Web Parts

Extending the WebPart base class
Collaborating with the Web Part life cycle
Activating Web Part editing
Creating and linking editors
Key interfaces: IWebPart, IWebActionable and IWebEditable

Connecting Web Parts

Choosing the right type of connection: cell, row, list or filter
Providing and consuming data between Web Parts
Connecting the provider and consumer

Debugging and deploying Web Parts

Attaching to the SharePoint host process
Stepping through Web Part code
Simplifying Web Part installation with a custom Feature
Installing Web Parts into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

Coding Events and Workflows

Responding to SharePoint notifications

Triggering list and document events
Receiving events with a custom handler
Modifying lists programmatically with SPList

Modelling multistep processes

Developing custom templates
Designing workflows with Visual Studio 2008
Triggering workflows from SharePoint

Programming Timers and Web Services

Scheduling recurring tasks with timers

Creating timer jobs with code
Interacting with the timer service

Accessing SharePoint with Web services

Built-in SharePoint Web services: Site Data, Lists and Administration
Invoking Web services from .NET client applications

Deploying Your SharePoint Application as a Solution

Creating the manifest
Packing the application as a Solution
Scheduling and deploying Solutions across the farm
Enabling enterprise deployment of custom SharePoint applications

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