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SharePoint Development/Deployment Best Practices

SharePoint Development/Deployment Best Practices. Todd Kitta September 2008 Saint Louis SharePoint Users Group. Agenda. Introductions Features Solutions Helpers Demo. A Little About Me. Husband & father of 2 beautiful girls! SharePoint Architect for Covenant Technology Partners

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SharePoint Development/Deployment Best Practices

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  1. SharePoint Development/Deployment Best Practices Todd Kitta September 2008 Saint Louis SharePoint Users Group

  2. Agenda • Introductions • Features • Solutions • Helpers • Demo

  3. A Little About Me • Husband & father of 2 beautiful girls! • SharePoint Architect for Covenant Technology Partners • SharePoint Podcast – www.mossgonewild.com

  4. SharePoint Development Overview • SharePoint == Big ASP.NET Application • SharePoint v2 (WSS 2.0, SPS 2003) • SharePoint v3 (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007)

  5. You should never have to manually do anything on the web front end!

  6. Features • Distinct piece of deployable functionality, can be turned on and off • Scoped at a Farm, Web Application, site collection (Site), or site (Web) level • Feature.xml • Elements Manifest(s) • Reference wss.xsd (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\wss.xsd) • Goes for all other XML files as well…

  7. Things you can do with Features • Create new site columns and content types • Create new list instances with pre-populated data • Associate a content type with a list • Deploy a custom workflow • Add a link to any ASPX page from the site menu • Deploy a new site page • Millions of other things…

  8. Feature Receivers • If you cannot do something in your Feature.xml or Elements.xml, you can do it in code! • Other web.config modifications • Setting lookup column references for lists you are creating in the current feature(s) • Order of operations

  9. Solutions • Manifest.xml • Know the DDF file • makecab.exe Solutions are just CAB files (with a WSP extension)

  10. Things you can do with solutions • Deploy one or more features to a farm • Add a DLL to the GAC • Make web.config changes (SafeControls for example) • Deploy application pages, images, etc. to the LAYOUTS folder

  11. Stuff to help you do this • STSDEV (http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev) • WSP Builder (http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder) • WSS Extensions for Visual Studio • VS2005: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en • VS2008: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7BF65B28-06E2-4E87-9BAD-086E32185E68&displaylang=en

  12. 1 WSPBuilder 2 3

  13. STSDEV Demo

  14. You should really feel comfortable with doing this stuff manually before using wizards or other helpers

  15. Good Sources • SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx • http://www.mossgonewild.com/

  16. Questions?

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