2. Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston Thank you for being a part of the 2nd Annual SharePoint Saturday Houston Please turn off all electronic devices or set them to vibrate. If you must take a phone call, please do so in the hall so as not to disturb others. Thanks to our Platinum Sponsors:
3. Information Speaker presentation slides will be available at SharePointSaturday.org/Houston within a week Keep checking website for future events The Houston SharePoint User Group at www.h-spug.org, will be having it’s May meeting this Wednesday on May 11th. Please be sure to join us! Have a great day!
11. What else do I need? Windows Server 2008 R2 (or SP2) x64 / Windows 7 x64 for native installs SQL Server 2008 R2 (or SP1+CU2) x64 / SQL Server 2005 SP3 x64 Virtualization Software (if virtualizing) – Oracle VirtualBox, VMWareWorkstation, Hyper-V, etc. Complete requirements at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
12. SharePoint Basics Farm (SPFarm) – Represents the collection of servers of the SharePoint deployment Web Applications (SPWebApplication) – 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 Solution (.wsp) – CAB file used for deployment
13. SharePoint Root Folder (aka 14 Hive) Location of most key SharePoint files: C:rogram Filesommon Filesicrosoft sharedeb Server Extensions4 Called 12 in WSS3
14. Solution Types Farm Solution – Same type of solution used in WSS3. No security restrictions unless using partial trust Can be deployed with Full Trust or Partial Trust Sandboxed Solution – Deploys to the site collection with security limitations Can only access a subset of the SharePoint object model Cannot elevate privileges Can only access artifacts in the site collection it was activated on Administrators can restrict the amount of resources available Ideal for shared hosting environments / SharePoint Online
15. Visual Web Part A glorified ASP.NET User Control with a Web Part wrapper Built with a designer Previously only available in Farm Solutions Sandbox compatible version available with Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
17. 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 A few if them do now in SharePoint 2010 Most objects require a call to .Update to save any changes made Some API calls require elevated security – Pass a delegate to RunWithElevatedPrivleges
19. Deployment No manual configuration or third party add-ons required Visual Studio builds features and solution package files for you Visual Studio deploys packages directly to SharePoint server Solution packages can still be deployed to other servers via PowerShell
20. Resources How to Build and Deploy a Web Part in SharePoint 2010 http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/02/15/intro-to-sharepoint-2010-development-how-to-build-and-deploy-a-web-part.aspx How to Build and Deploy a Web Part in WSS3 http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/10/22/intro-to-sharepoint-development-how-to-build-and-deploy-a-web-part.aspx