SharePoint 2010 Development for ASP.NET Developers

Corey RothBlog: www.dotnetmafia.comTwitter: @coreyroth

Corey Roth

• SharePoint Solutions Architect for Stonebridge• Microsoft SharePoint MVP• Specializing in ECM and Search• Passed all SharePoint 2010 certification exams• Microsoft Solutions Advocate• E-mail: coreyroth@gmail.com • Twitter: @coreyroth• Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com• Laptop: Dell E6510 i5 2.4 GHz 8GB• Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.8 – 4GB on VM

What’s new?

Visual Studio 2010!

3-Minute Web Part Demo

Demo

Getting Started

What do I need?

You need…

RAM!

To Virtualize or not?

With Virtualization Without Virtualization

Need 64 bit guest capable VM software

No virtualization software required

Requires more memory and disk space

Requires less memory and disk space

Prerequisite installer installs everything (almost)

Prerequisites have to be installed manually

Can be shut off when you are not using it

Services are always running unless you shut them off

Easier to restore when you mess up

What else do I need?

• Windows Server 2008 R2 (or SP2) x64 / Windows 7 x64 for native installs

• SQL Server 2008 R2 (or SP1+CU2) x64 / SQL Server 2005 SP3 x64

• Virtualization Software (if virtualizing) – Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation, Hyper-V, etc.

• Complete requirements at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx

SharePoint Basics

• Farm (SPFarm) – Represents the collection of servers of the SharePoint deployment

• Web Applications (SPWebApplication) – Typically one or more of these maps to a web site in IIS (i.e.: Port 80)

• Site Collection (SPSite) – Will have at least one. Groups sites together

• Site (SPWeb) – Represents a site or subsite in a Site Collection. Contains pages, lists, etc.

• Feature – Allows code and SharePoint changes to occur at the click of a button

• Solution (.wsp) – CAB file used for deployment

SharePoint Root Folder (aka 14 Hive)

• Location of most key SharePoint files: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14

• Called 12 in WSS3

Folder Description

CONFIG Contains partial trust configuration files

ISAPI Binaries and SharePoint Web Services

LOGS Error Logs (look here first when you get a strange error)

TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES User Controls

TEMPLATE\FEATURES SharePoint Features (turns functionality on and off)

TEMPLATE\IMAGES MainImages Folder

TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS Pages and Styles

Solution Types

• Farm Solution – Same type of solution used in WSS3. No security restrictions unless using partial trust– Can be deployed with Full Trust or Partial Trust

• Sandboxed Solution – Deploys to the site collection with security limitations– Cannot elevate privileges– Can only access artifacts in the site collection it was activated

on– Administrators can restrict the amount of resources available– Ideal for shared hosting environments / cloud

Visual Web Part

• A glorified ASP.NET User Control with a Web Part wrapper• Built with a designer• Only available in Farm Solutions (third party options

available for Sandboxed)

Visual Web Part Demo

Demo

SharePoint API

• SPContext – Used to get reference to the current site or site collection

• All uses of SPSite or SPWeb must be disposed (use a using statement)

• Most collections do not have an “Exists” method– A few if them do now in SharePoint 2010

• Most objects require a call to .Update to save any changes made

• Some API calls require elevated security – Pass a delegate to RunWithElevatedPrivleges

Demo

Demo

Deployment

• No manual configuration or third party add-ons required• Visual Studio builds features and solution package files for

you• Visual Studio deploys packages directly to SharePoint server• Solution packages can still be deployed to other servers via

PowerShell

Resources

How to Build and Deploy a Web Part in SharePoint 2010http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/02/15/intro-to-sharepoint-2010-development-how-to-build-and-deploy-a-web-part.aspx

How to Build and Deploy a Web Part in WSS3http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/10/22/intro-to-sharepoint-development-how-to-build-and-deploy-a-web-part.aspx

Questions?

Corey RothBlog: www.dotnetmafia.comTwitter: @coreyroth