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Custom SharePoint 2010 solutions without server access
1. Developing Custom SharePoint 2010 Solutions without server access Phil Wicklund SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
2. About Me… Working with SP since 2004 Started as a trainer for Mindsharp Now consulting through RBA in MN Blog: philwicklund.com Writing a 2010 book:
3. Agenda The Problem: how to develop custom solutions that won’t impair the farm SharePoint Designer 2010 Sandboxed Solutions Client Object Model Questions SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
4. SharePoint Designer 2010 Used for: Browser alternative (administrate pages, content types, web parts, etc) Branding XsltListViewWebPart Workflow External Data SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
5. Demo 1: Workflow with SPD Model Workflow in Office Visio Import Workflow into SharePoint Designer Publish to SharePoint, and test SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAConsulting.com
6. Sandboxed Solutions Solutions are cab based file with wspextenion can contain web parts, features, workflows, etc. Scoped to a Site Collection Site Collection Administrators Install, Manage and Monitor the solutions SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
8. Sandboxed Solutions Debugging Sandboxed Solutions Farm Solutions run in the w3wp.exe process Sandboxed Solutions run in the SPUCWorkerProcess.exe process Hitting F5 automatically attaches to SPUCWorkerProcess.exe, then simply drop web part on a page, for example SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
9. Sandboxed Solutions Caveats Full API swapped out at runtime with sandboxed subset. SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivledges, for example, won’t work. IntelliSense is also truncated to help prevent runtime errors since compiler compiles against full API Try to avoid cut and paste All classes below SPSite are available Partial trust prevents access to anything outside the scope of the Site Collection (Internet, Web service, file system, etc) SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
10. Sandboxed Solutions Monitoring “Point” quotas set in Central Administration. Default is 300 points. Shows usage reports, for today and a 14 day average Points – next slide Validators Fire on upload of solution into Gallery Can enfore, only web parts, singed cod with a particular token, log/catalog solutions, etc. SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
12. Demo 2: Sandboxed Web Part New Visual Studio Project Create a Web Part Deploy as Sandboxed Solution SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAConsulting.com
13. Client Side Object Model Not enough web services in SP 2007 Rather than create more services, COM provides the complete API COM provides a consistent development experience: Windows Applications ASP.NET web sites Silverlight Applications JavaScript, www client side scripting SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
17. Starter Code Using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; ... using (ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://intranet")) { Web web = context.Web; context.Load(web); context.ExecuteQuery(); string title = web.Title; // ListCollection lists = web.Lists; } SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
18. Iterating through Lists in a Web using (ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://intranet")) { Web web = context.Web; context.Load(web); context.Load(web.Lists); context.ExecuteQuery(); foreach(List list in web.Lists) { //do something } } SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
19. Efficiencies… Don’t be Lazy! Web web = context.Web; context.Load(web, wprop => wprop.Title)); ListCollection lists = web.Lists; IEnumerable<List> filtered = context. LoadQuery(lists.Include(l=>l.Title)); context.ExecuteQuery(); foreach(List list in filtered) { } SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
20. Working with List Items Web web = context.Web; List list = context.Web.Lists. GetByTitle(“List Title"); CamlQuery query = CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery(); ListItemCollection items = lst.GetItems(query); context.Load(items); context.ExecuteQuery(); foreach (ListItem item in items) { string title = item["Title"]; } SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
21. Efficencies with List Items CamlQuery query = new CamlQuery(); query.ViewXml = "<View><Query><Where><Eq> <FieldRef Name='Title'/><Value Type='Text'>Phil</Value> </Eq></Where></Query></View>"; ListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(query); context.Load(items, x => x.Include( item => item["ID"], item => item["Title"], item => item.DisplayName)); SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
22. Adding new List Items List list = context.Web.Lists. GetByTitle(“List Title"); context.Load(list); ListItemnewItem = list.AddItem(new ListItemCreationInformation()); newItem["Title"] = "My new item"; newItem.Update(); context.ExecuteQuery(); SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAconsulting.com
24. Demo 3: .NET COM Build a Console (client) Application Render all theList Titles from a remoteSharePoint site. Create a new list itemin a remote SharePointsite. SharePoint FREEWARE www.PhilWicklund.com SharePoint CONSULTING www.RBAConsulting.com
