Beginning SharePoint 2010 development Beginnning Share Point 2010 development

465 Pages·2010·19.184 MB·English

by  Steven Fox

Beginning
SharePoint® 2010 Development
Steve Fox
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Beginning SharePoint® 2010 Development
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Contents
IntroductIon xxiii
Part i: WelCome to sharePoint 2010
ChaPter 1: introduCtion to sharePoint 2010 3
Getting to Know SharePoint 4�
Addressing the Needs of the Developer 8�
Extension and Enrichment for Developers 9�
Breaking It Down for Developers 10�
SharePoint 2010: The Platform 12
SharePoint 2010 Capabilities 14
Site Collection and Sites 15
Server APIs and Client APIs 17
Data Modeling and Programmability 18
SharePoint Central Administration 19
Application Management 20
Monitoring 21
Security 21
General Application Settings 21
System Settings 21
Backup and Restore 21
Upgrade and Migration 22
Configuration Wizards 22
Summary 22
Recommended Reading 24
ChaPter 2: GettinG started With
sharePoint 2010 develoPment 25
Core Developer Features for SharePoint 2010 26
Developer Productivity 26
Rich Platform Services 30
Flexible Deployment 32
Key Skills for the SharePoint Developer 34
Your Development Environment 36
Installing and Configuring Windows Server Hyper-V 37
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 42
Getting Familiar with SharePoint 2010 45
Working with SharePoint Sites 46
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Working with SharePoint Lists 50
Working with SharePoint Web Parts 58
Setting Permissions for a SharePoint Site 63
Summary 64
Recommended Reading 66
Part ii: GettinG started With sharePoint 2010 develoPment
ChaPter 3: sharePoint 2010 develoPer tools 69
SharePoint Development Across Developer Segments 70
Web-Based Development in SharePoint 71
Site Settings 72
Inline Rich Text and HTML Editing 74
Adding Multimedia to a Site 76
Developing SharePoint Applications Using SharePoint Designer 2010 78
Customizing a Site Page 80
Managing Other Data Sources in SharePoint Designer 85
Using JavaScript in SharePoint Designer 86
Master Pages 91
Developing SharePoint Applications Using Visual Studio 2010 98
Development Using the Expression Blend Suite 116
Summary 126
Recommended Reading 127
ChaPter 4: Common develoPer tasks in sharePoint 2010 12 9
Creating Web Parts 130
Standard and Visual Web Parts 130
Data View Web Parts 133
Creating Lists, Site Columns, and Content Types 135
Working with SharePoint Data 141
Creating Event Receivers 147
Creating aspx Pages 150
Creating Master Pages 153
Summary 157
Recommended Reading 158
ChaPter 5: ProGramminG aGainst sharePoint 2010 lists 159
Overview of SharePoint Lists 159
Programmatically Accessing Lists 162
Programming Against Lists Using the Server-Side Object Model 163
Programming Against Lists Using ASP.NET Web Services 171
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Programming Against Lists Using the Client Object Model 186
Programming Against Lists Using a Custom WCF Service 197
REST-Based Services and List Development 202
Creating Event Receivers for a SharePoint List 210
Summary 215
Recommended Reading 216
ChaPter 6: BuildinG and dePloyinG sharePoint
WeB Parts 217
Understanding Web Parts 217
Web Part Architecture 220
Custom Web Parts 223
Visual Web Parts 233
Custom Web Part Properties 244
Summary 246
Recommended Reading 248
ChaPter 7: CreatinG your First sharePoint 2010
aPPliCation 249
Requirements 250
Solution Design 251
Customer Sales and Total Sales Lists 252
Building the Application 254
Adding a Record to the Sales List 254
Viewing the Customer Sales 258
Viewing the Total Sales 262
Adding a Chart Web Part 268
Final Dashboard 271
Summary 272
Recommended Reading 274
Part iii: advanCed toPiCs For sharePoint 2010 develoPment
ChaPter 8: inteGratinG line-oF-Business data
usinG Business ConneCtivity serviCes 277
Understanding Office Business Applications (OBAs) 278
OBAs and BCS 280
Anatomy of an External Content Type 284
Connectivity Options with BCS 287
Developing Your First Application Using BCS 289
Creating the External Data Source 290
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Creating the External Content Type 291�
Setting Permissions for External Content Types 306�
Taking the External List Offline 307�
Summary 313�
Recommended Reading 315�
ChaPter 9: CreatinG enhanCed user exPerienCes �
For sharePoint With silverliGht 317�
Understanding Silverlight 317�
Why Integrate Silverlight and SharePoint? 325�
Integrating Silverlight with SharePoint 326�
No-Touch Integration 328�
Low-Touch Integration 331�
High-Touch Integration 343�
Summary 361�
Recommended Reading 362�
ChaPter 10: develoPinG serviCe-oriented �
aPPliCations For sharePoint 2010 363�
ASP.NET Web Services 365�
Native Web Service 366�
Custom ASP.NET Services 370�
WCF Web Services 378�
RESTful Web Services 387�
Azure and SharePoint 390�
Summary 396�
Recommended Reading 398�
ChaPter 11: inteGratinG sharePoint �
With miCrosoFt oFFiCe 399�
Content Type as a Document Template 400�
Using InfoPath in Your SharePoint Solutions 404�
Managing Office Documents through a SharePoint Workflow 406�
Integrating Office Documents with SharePoint List Data 410�
Server-Side Services 418�
Visio Services 418�
Excel Services 420�
Word Services 426�
Access Services 427�
Summary 429�
Recommended Reading 431�
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ChaPter 12: seCurinG your
sharePoint 2010 aPPliCations 433
Authorization 434
Solution Trust 436
Secure Store Service 440
Federated Authentication 442
Forms-Based Authentication 442
Claims-Based Authentication 443
Summary 444
Recommended Reading 446
Part iv: aPPendix
aPPendix : Where to Go From here 449
Index 451
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Part I
Welcome to SharePoint 2010
⊲ ChaPter 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2010
⊲ ChaPter 2: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development
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1
Introduction to SharePoint 2010
What You'll learn in thiS ChaPter:
➤➤ Getting familiar with the core functionality and features of SharePoint
➤➤ Understanding the basics of SharePoint architecture
➤➤ What's available to developers in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint is an exciting Web-based technology. In its fourth version, SharePoint has undergone
quite an evolution since the 2003 release, and the types of things you can do with SharePoint run
far and wide. Those who have had the chance to see the product grow up will be surprised and
happy with many of the changes that are now built into the platform. In fact, existing SharePoint
developers will witness what arguably is a significant change in the features and functionality that
SharePoint provides, as well as an evolution in the tools supported and the developer community
that rallies around the technology. Aspiring SharePoint developers will realize there is quite a bit
of power in the platform that you should be able to put into practice by the end of this book.
SharePoint has matured into a first-class platform that will enable you to build and deploy
a wide array of solutions, as well as take advantage of the build-and-publish model that
SharePoint users and developers have come to enjoy. In fact, SharePoint 2010 offers such a
wide array of features that it is challenging for any one person to claim to be an expert across
all of the SharePoint workloads. You will need to dedicate some time to becoming an expert,
but the journey will be worth it.
With that in mind, this chapter introduces you to what SharePoint is and examines some of
the high-level features for the developer. This chapter will also describe the capabilities that
make SharePoint a platform that is interesting and compelling for you, the developer, to learn.
Specific topics include the types of platform services to expect, data programmability, and the
ways in which you can build and deploy a SharePoint solution. Toward the end of this chapter,
you’ll be introduced to Central Administration, where you’ll find an array of administrative
capabilities for SharePoint.
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4 ❘ ChaPter 1 IntroductIon to SharePoInt 2010
GettinG to KnoW SharePoint
Microsoft describes SharePoint 2010 as the business productivity platform for the enterprise and
the Internet. To provide you with an idea of the types of things that you can do with SharePoint,
Figure 1-1 breaks down SharePoint into three separate areas:
➤➤ Collaborate — As you move throughout this book, you’ll see the notion of collaboration
is a very strong theme for SharePoint. This is because SharePoint is about bringing people
together through different types of collaboration, such as enterprise content management
(ECM), Web content management (WCM), social computing through the use of wikis or
blogs, creating dashboards to fulfill your business intelligence (BI) needs, and so on.
➤➤ Interoperability — SharePoint is also about bringing this collaboration together through
interoperability. This means Office client and Web-based document integration, and the
capability to build and deploy Office business applications (OBAs) — custom solutions that
integrate line-of-business (LOB) data with SharePoint and Office, integrating with Web 2.0
technologies, or deploying applications to the cloud. It also means enhanced security through
an evolved security model called Claims-Based Authentication that helps facilitate integration
with other line-of-business (LOB) systems.
➤➤ Platform — As you’ll see, SharePoint is a platform that supports not only interoperability
and collaboration but also extensibility, through a rich object model, a solid set of developer
tools, and a growing developer community.
• ECM & WCM • Client Integration • 1st Class Developer
• Social Computing • OBA Platform
• Search • Web 2.0 • Visual studio
• Portals/Sites • S+S • SharePoint Designer
• Business Intelligence • Intranet/Internet • Rich Community
• MS Product Integration
Collaborate Interoperability Platform
FiGure 1-1 SharePoint as a platform
These are three key themes that you will find crop up throughout most discussions of SharePoint
and implicitly through many of the capabilities you’ll get to explore throughout this book.
At its essence, SharePoint is a Web-based platform that provides the following:
➤➤ A set of native capabilities to support productivity and collaboration
➤➤ An extensible set of APIs and services
➤➤ A configuration engine that provides rich administrative abilities
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