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IT Pro Tools for Customizing SharePoint 2010. Name Title Company. 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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IT Pro Tools for Customizing SharePoint 2010 Name Title Company
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
Walkthrough of the key changes in the platform What’s New in the Development Platform
Platform InvestmentsProgrammability • 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
Platform InvestmentsIntegration • 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
Platform InvestmentsExtensibility • 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
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
SharePoint 2010 Tools ContinuumTarget Users Visual Studio Dev SharePoint Designer InfoPath RAD Application Complexity PIW SharePoint Browser UI IWs Technical Difficulty
What are the key changes on 2010? SharePoint Designer 2010
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
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
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
SharePoint Designer 2010 demo Improved UI, customization options, and how to control…
Other applications to modify the out of the box functionalities Other toolS
Visual Studio 2010 • New project templates for most SharePoint objects • SharePoint Explorer offers read only view into site collections
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
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
InfoPath 2010 Scenarios with SharePoint • 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
InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint demo Improved integration
Access Data Services and Access 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
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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