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Building SharePoint Online Web PartsToni Frankola

SharePoint MVPAcceleratio d.o.o.

Contents

• Office365 / SharePoint Online• Developing for SharePoint Online• Demos and tips• Some advanced stuff

office365

SharePoint• Sharing documents• Corporate social networks• Managing projects and documents• Search• News• Permissions• Offline sync• IM• …

Challange

• Case study:– Customer wants to use SharePoint in the

cloud• …but with special forms, custom

permissions and custom web parts

The solution

SandBoxed Solutions

• Isolated SP process (User Code Service)

• SubsetMicrosoft.SharePoint namespace

• Managed via browser (Solutions gallery)

Hello World!

SharePoint Sandboxed solution

DEMO

SANDBOXED SOLUTIONS

- for developers

Request Flow

Worker Service(SPUCWorkerProcess.exe)

Full Object Model

Host Services (SPUCHostService.exe)

Execution Manager(Inside Application Pool)

Subset Object Model

Untrusted Code

IIS(WPW3.EXE)

FRONT END BACK END

Subset-Model RequestFull-Model

Request

Supported in Sandboxed Solutions

• Web Parts (no Visual WPs)• Lists• List Templates• Custom Actions• Workflows• Event Receivers• Content Types• Site Columns• …

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff872402.aspx

Supported API• All of the Microsoft.SharePoint namespace, except:

– SPSite constructor– SPSecurity object– SPWorkItem and SPWorkItemCollection objects– SPAlertCollection.Add method– SPAlertTemplateCollection.Add method– SPUserSolution and SPUserSolutionCollection objects– SPTransformUtilities object– Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation namespace

• All of the Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespace, except– SPUtility.SendEmail method– SPUtility.GetNTFullNameandEmailFromLogin method– Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow namespace

• All of the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages namespace, except– SPWebPartManager object– SPWebPartConnection object– WebPartZone object– WebPartPage object– ToolPane object– ToolPart object

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff872402.aspx

SharePoint Features / Solutions

Solution (.wsp)

Feature 2

… Event Handler CSS Web

Part

Feature 1

… JS Web Part

Developer Tools

• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools– adds Visual Web Part– SandBoxed solution validation (must have!)

• Office365 Sandbox FxCop rules

• CKSDEV add-on– Trusted proxy– Deployment options

• Other stuff:– Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Pack– SP Dispose Checker (how to integrate with VS)

SharePoint UX

• Users want different UX

UX: What do we need?

• ASP.NET– .master page– CSS– javascript

SharePoint Metro UI

Demo

SharePoint UX (2)

Link buttons

• jQuery link buttons

• SharePoint lista za linkove– Security– UI–…

• SharePoint Feature

SharePoint Link Buttons

Demo

Monitoring Sandbox

Very bad WebPart

• Infinite loop example:

• Farm solution = problem• Sandboxed solution:

Monitoring 101

• Site Collection Admin

• Farm admin

Monitored ResourcesMetric Name Description Units Resources

Per PointHard Limit

AbnormalProcessTerminationCount Process gets abnormally terminated Count 1 1

CPUExecutionTime CPU exception time Seconds 3,600 60CriticalExceptionCount Critical exception fired Number 10 3

InvocationCount Number of times solution has been invoked Count N/A N/A

PercentProcessorTime Note: # of cores not factored in Percentage Units of Overall Processor Consumed 85 100

ProcessCPUCycles CPU Cycles 1E+11 1E+11ProcessHandleCount Windows Handles 10,000 1,000

ProcessIOBytes (Hard Limit Only) Bytes written to IO Bytes 0 1E+08

ProcessThreadCount Number of Threads in Overall Process Threads 10,000 200

ProcessVirtualBytes (Hard Limit Only) Memory consumed Bytes 0 1E+09

SharePointDatabaseQueryCount SharePoint DB Queries Invoked Number 20 100

SharePointDatabaseQueryTime Amount of time spent waiting for a query to be performed Seconds 120 60

UnhandledExceptionCount Unhanded Exceptions 50 3

UnresponsiveprocessCount We have to kill the process because it has become unresponsive Number 2 1

Extending Sandbox

Not supported!

• Off-box connections, http, web services, etc

• ADO.net• Enterprise features (Search, BCS, etc.)• Threading• P-Invoke• IO• Other sites (site collections)

Beyond Limits

• No 3rd party .NET components – Revert back to JQuery• JQuery charts (licensing!)

– Silverlight!

Extending Sandbox

• Trusted proxies:

Worker Service(SPUCWorkerProcess.exe)

SPUtility

SPProxyOperationArgs

GAC

SPProxyOperation

SPProxyOperationArgs

Untrusted Code

SecuredResource

SharePoint Client object model

• Supported technologies– .NET– Silverlight– ECMAScript

(JavaScript, JScript)

„Search as you type” demo

PITANJA

HVALA!