Intro to AppsMinnesota SharePoint User Group

Raymond Mitchell @iwkid www.iwkid.com

April 2014

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Agenda• What are Apps for SharePoint

• What’s needed to run Apps for SharePoint

• Under the hood

• What’s needed to build Apps for SharePoint

• Q&A

Goal - understand what SharePoint Apps are, aren’t, and how you can begin using them in your organization

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@iwkid

linkedin.com/in/iwkid

Raymond Mitchell• Independent Consultant

Owner of IWSPACE, LLC

• Specialize in SharePoint & Information Worker Technologies

• SharePointing since 2001

www.iwkid.com

www.iwspace.com

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What are Apps?General Info

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Apps, Apps, Apps• Windows 8

• Windows Phone

• Xbox One

• SharePoint

• Office

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Why Apps?• Familiar model (for users)

• Custom (managed) code on the server is risky Performance Upgrade Microsoft says “not on my cloud you don’t!”

• SharePoint is evolving – faster and faster Apps offload customizations from the SharePoint server

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What are Apps?• Add functionality to a site

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What are NOT Apps?• Lists

• Libraries

• Web Parts

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Where do you get Apps?• App Store

Managed by Microsoft

• App Catalog Managed by your Organization

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Who can add Apps?• Site Owners

Manage Web site and Create Subsites permissions

• Must grant permission / trust

11Adding Apps

DEMO

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What’s needed?Administrators

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What’s needed?Office 365 & SharePoint Online

• Good to go!

• Ok, mostly…

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What’s needed?On-Premises

• Service Applications (and related services on server) App Management Service Application Subscription Settings Service

• DNS entries

• SSL (recommended for production)

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What’s needed?Hosted & On-Premises

• Configure the App Catalog (Site)

16Configuring Apps

DEMO

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23Configuring the App CatalogOn-Premises

DEMO

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26Configuring the App CatalogOffice 365

DEMO

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Under the hoodGeneral Info

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UX Design for Apps• Multiple ways to implement your App’s UX in SharePoint

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Application Hosting OptionsSharePoint-

Hosted Apps

Provider-Hosted Apps

Auto-Hosted Apps

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Application Hosting OptionsSharePoint-

Hosted Apps

Provider-Hosted Apps

Auto-Hosted Apps

• Automatically hosted in SharePoint Creates an App Web under the Host Web

• No server-side code involved – only JavaScript / scripting

• Application Data is stored in SharePoint Lists

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Application Hosting OptionsSharePoint-

Hosted Apps

Provider-Hosted Apps

Auto-Hosted Apps

• App code is deployed *somewhere*

• Can execute server-side code

• Application Data can be stored anywhere

• User experience is responsibility of the App developer Some tools to help implement portions of the SharePoint

UX

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Application Hosting OptionsSharePoint-

Hosted Apps

Provider-Hosted Apps

Auto-Hosted Apps

• Same as the Provider-Hosted Apps Automatically deployed to Azure Facilitates development of Provider-Hosted Apps

Mostly used for Development

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App Web URLs

• http://app-98f0a4b67b2129.devapps.lab.local/sites/SPSTC/AEDailyDilbertApp/Pages/Default.aspx

• ?SPHostUrl=http://portal/sites/SPSTC

• &SPLanguage=en-US

• &SPClientTag=0

• &SPProductNumber=15.0.4420.1017

• &SPAppWebUrl=http://app-98f0a4b67b2129.devapps.lab.local/sites/SPSTC/AEDailyDilbertApp

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.app File• .zip file

• Contains manifest as well as .wsp file

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Building AppsDevelopers

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Office 365 Developer Subscription• Visual Studio Ultimate and Premium comes with 1-year Office 365

subscription

• Already have an E1/E3 Office 365 subscription? Add a Dev site collection

• Buy a developer subscription $99/year

• Get your developer tenant at: http://dev.office.com

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Developer Site Template• Used to facilitate “side-loading” of Apps (via F5 Deployment) for easy

testing

• Acts as a sandbox App Catalog

• Available on-premises and in Office 365

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Office 365 Developer Sites• Napa

Free browser-based developer tool Available in Office 365 Distributed as a SharePoint 2013 app Allows you to create SharePoint 2013 apps

*very* powerful

Can export (one-way!) to Visual Studio

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DEMO

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Visual Studio• Template for creating Provider-Hosted Apps

• Template for creating CBAs (LightSwitch)

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DEMO?

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Access Services• Requires Access Services (SharePoint Server Enterprise licensing)

orOffice 365

• All new in 2013 – now creates SharePoint Apps

• Come learn more at next month’s MNSPUG!

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Chrome Control• For Provider-Hosted apps

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Interacting with SharePoint• CSOM

• Greatly expanded JavaScript client object model in SharePoint 2013

Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/office/jj163201

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Interacting with SharePoint• CSOM

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Interacting with SharePoint• REST

http://server/site/_api/lists/getbytitle('listname')

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Resources• Apps for Office and SharePoint blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/

• Office Dev Center – Apps for SharePointhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448479

• Developer Training – Apps for SharePointhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448488

• Apps for Office & SharePoint sampleshttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps?WT.mc_Id=SPO_NA_O365DevSKU_Home_Samples

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Getting Started – Dev Center

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Dev Training

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Sample Apps!

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Info Graphics!

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Resources• SharePoint Conference 2014 Videos

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014

• Build Conference 2014 Videoshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build

• My Bloghttp://www.iwkid.com

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Questions?Raymond Mitchell @iwkid www.iwkid.com