My slides from the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011 - Taking SharePoint 2010 Offline

1. Taking Sharepoint 2010 Offline

2. Agenda The Business Problem Out Of the Box Solutions Local Drafts SharePoint Workspace 2010 Custom Solutions Silverlight Client Case Study & Demo

3. Aonghus Fraser CTO UniTech Ltd, Gold Partner based in Edinburgh, Scotland Developing Enterprise SharePoint solutions since 2003 Various Microsoft MCSD, MCTS, MCPD certs

4. HEINEKEN UK

5. A Brand Ready Business –Doing Internal Business Better Now doing offline business better

6. The Business Problem

7. Generalising before we start… Coders Consultants, Developers, IT pros with Powershell Ex-coders Management? Sales? Non-coders

13. Out of the box Local Drafts & SharePoint Workspace 2010

14. Local Drafts Local copy of documents only (not lists) Versioning Checking in/out documents Office 2007+

15. SharePoint Workspace 2010 Successor to Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Standalone client or Office Professional Plus2010 “a client application that provides fast, any-time interactive access to document libraries and lists on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010”

16. SharePoint Workspace Types SharePoint workspaces Synchronise library & list content between a SharePoint site and a workspace Groove workspaces Multi-user shared synchronised workspaces Shared Folder workspaces Windows folder sharing

17. Cannot Sync Everything Calendar/Events lists Wikis Blog sites Portal sites Form libraries Slide libraries Surveys Site directories OneNote notebooks stored in document libraries IRM-protected document libraries.

18. Demo SharePoint Workspace 2010

19. Custom Solutions Getting Data Out

20. Getting Data Out Client Object Model APIs ECMAScript (JavaScript) .NET CLR Managed Code (C#/VB.NET) Silverlight SharePoint Native API .NET Managed Code SPMetal Command-line tool LINQ to SharePoint WCF

21. Client Object Model WCF service under the hood (/_vti_bin/client.svc) SharePoint Data ClientApplication .Net CLR Silverlight JavaScript

22. ECMAScript Client Object Model Must be hosted within a SharePoint Page Authentication performed by the page it is hosted within No ConditionalScope Limited use for a disconnected client

23. Silverlight Client Object Model Can be run from: Silverlight Web Part Custom web page External Application Provider (EAP) for cross-domain CrossDomain.xml or ClientAccessPolicy.xml won’t work Can be used Out Of Browser – local cache required for offline

24. .NET CLR Client Object Model Managed API – references: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll (~280kb) Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll (~145kb) (Compared with Microsoft.SharePoint.dll > 15MB!) Can be executed remotely e.g. WPF client

25. SharePoint Native API Executed on a SharePoint Server Similar to WSS3/MOSS 2007 No limitations e.g. RunWithElevatedPrivileges Typically combined with a custom (WCF) service

26. SPMetal.exe SharePoint Foundation+ (no need for Server) Command-line tool to generate entity classes Strongly-typed access to SharePoint data Similar to LINQ to SharePoint Visual Studio Integration (External Tools)

27. SPMetal Parameters Customise Entity Classes Include/exclude Content Types Include/exclude Columns

28. SharePoint & Custom WCF Dynamic Endpoints Supports SOAP, REST, and WCF Data Services Service Host Factory implementations No web.config bindings!

29. CKS:DEV http://cksdev.codeplex.com/ WCF service SPI If you are a developer CKS:DEV will make your life easier! Foundation and Server versions

30. DEMO SPMetal, WCF, LINQ

31. Silverlight client Consuming SharePoint Data

32. Silverlight Client – Why? Low impact for IT Access to file system (limited to special folders) Isolated Storage Out Of Browser capabilities Model-View-ViewModel Windows Phone 7

33. Silverlight 4 OOB Same small runtime (~5MB) Installed Program (desktop/start menu link) WebBrowsercontrol (WebBrowserBrush) File System Access (limited) Increased Isolated Storage (25MB)

34. Sterling Isolated Storage Database Isolated Storage – 25MB OOB (1MB online) http://sterling.codeplex.com/ Compact binary serialization Silverlight 4 & Windows Phone 7 LINQ to Object queries Thanks to Jeremy Likness @jeremylikness

35. MVVM Framework - Caliburn.Micro Lean & Mean MVVM framework Easy to configure, great documentation Elegant & Testable Easy to understand Conventions http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com Thanks to Rob Eisenberg @EisenbergEffect Honourable mentions: Jounce MVVM Light

36. CASE STUDY

37. Heineken UK Sales Tool 1,500 On Trade Sales People distributed nationally 20+ brands Replaces expensive & out-of-date booklet released quarterly Requirements summary: “Website in a box” Easy to manage data Updates automatically Works offline

38. DEMO Heineken UK Sales Tool

39. Lessons learned (some painful!) SPMetal Lookup fields Circular reference risk CrossDomain.xml & ClientAccessPolicy.xml HttpHandler SLLauncher.exe Proxy Authentication (ISA/TMG) Inet / Browser Cache MVVM architecture evaluation Jounce, MVVM Light, Caliburn.Micro Silverlight Async Exception Handling Custom Message Inspectors

40. Further Info Twitter: @gusfraser Email: aonghus.fraser@unitech.net Occasional Blog: http://techblurt.com

41. Thank you