SharePoint 2007 Developer Brain Bomb

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Objectives

From Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint provides a huge range of functionality including enterprise content management, automation of business processes, and business intelligence and reporting.

Although SharePoint is rich in features and capabilities, it involves common concepts and developer tasks that are universal to every type of SharePoint project. This course is designed to provide those who are responsible for customizing and creating new functionality within the platform mastery of these common tasks, including: customization of look and feel through styles, themes, and master pages, controls and web parts, custom pages, creation and deployment of solutions, security, debugging, workflows, custom site definitions, lists, documents libraries, and features.

Students who master the contents of this course will possess the knowledge to productively contribute on most types of SharePoint implementation because they will understand the tasks and building blocks required in all types of custom solutions.

This class provides good coverage of topics for certification Exam 70-541: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Application Development.

Experience

Share Point is built on ASP .Net 2.0 but includes a variety of extensions that are unique to SharePoint. Basic knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, and XML are required. A good understanding of ASP.Net is beneficial but not necessary.

Course Outline

Introduction to SharePoint Development

Modes of Development: Configuration, Customization and Solution Development
Site Collections and Sites
Creating and Customizing Lists and Libraries
Using Web Part Pages

Site Columns and Content Types

Site Columns
Content Types
Integrating Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists
Using Calendar and Contacts Lists with Outlook 2007

Extending Lists with Office 2007

SharePoint Designer Workflows
Reporting with Access 2007
Word 2007 Mail Merges

Authentication and Authorization

Authentication Mechanisms
Authorization and Permissions
Zones

Forms Based Authentication and Anonymous Access

Using ASPNetSQLMembershipProvider and ASPNetSQLRoleProvider
Configuring Anonymous Access
Creating a Custom Membership Provider

SharePoint Architecture

IIS, ASP.Net, and SharePoint
Page Request Pipeline
What Happens When a New Web Application is Created
SPVirtualPathProvider and SPPageParserFilter

Features

Types of Features
Feature Scopes
Feature Activation, Dependencies, and Stapling
Feature Receivers

Solution Development

Creating a Development Environment
Creating and Deploying Solutions
Common Failure Modes
Tools and Techniques to Simplify Package and Deployment

Tagged Document Library Example

Provisioning a List with a Feature
Creating a Lookup Site Column with a Feature Receiver
Automating Solution Deployment
Creating Custom List Definitions

Site Definitions

Understanding Site Definitions
Creating Custom Site Definitions
Specify Site Elements and Features Using Onet.xml

Styles and Themes

Style Basics
Associating Styles with Pages
Using and Creating Themes

Master Pages

ASP.Net Master Page Basics
Master Pages in SharePoint
Creating a Custom Master Page

Programming Fundamentals

The Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace
Deploying Controls
Elevation of Privileges
Debugging Assemblies
Code Access Security

Creating User Controls and Web Parts

User Controls
Web Parts
Delegate Controls

Advanced List Concepts

Manipulating Lists and List Items Programmatically
Lists and Cross-site queries
Events
Custom Field Types

Custom Workflows

Comparison to SharePoint Designer Workflows
Workflow basics
ASP.Net Based Association, Initiation, and Modification Forms
Debugging Workflows
Custom Task Content Types and Forms