This presentation is for the developers who want to embark upon the SharePoint development and don\'t know where to start, how does it differ from traditional ASP.NET development, etc.

2. Brief introduction to WSS/MOSS
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WSS/MOSS Architecture
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 Integration with ASP.NET
Development in WSS/MOSS
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 Development options
 Security
 Deployment
Tips and Tricks
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Tools
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Real World Application
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3. WSS/SharePoint together provide
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 A collaboration and information sharing platform
 A site provisioning engine
 Business Intelligence and Business Process
Automation
 Search
 Many more features
WSS is part of Windows Server 2003 (free)
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MOSS is a separate installation (not free!)
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4. How many people know
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 The basic WSS/MOSS architecture concepts
 How to use the WSS/MOSS Central Admin Site
The following are some of the basic architecture
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concepts in WSS/MOSS
 Farm (and Configuration database)
 Web Application (and Content database)
 Site Collection and Sites
 List

5. One or more servers which provide the
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WSS/MOSS functionality
A Configuration Database for storing the Farm
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wide configuration information

7. An IIS Web Site configured to run WSS sites
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 Add some IIS meta-base entries
 Add a web.config file to the root of the IIS web site
IIS handles incoming requests for WSS/MOSS
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More than one web applications in a Farm
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9. Site Collection is a container for the sites
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More than one Site collection in a Web
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Application
A Site Collection has a root Site
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Site can’t live along; it must be created within the
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scope of a Site Collection

10. Conditional Demo

11. WSS/MOSS is nothing but an ASP.NET application!
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WSS/MOSS add value to ASP.NET by hooking into
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the ASP.NET request processing pipeline by virtue
of:
 Wildcard Application Mapping
 SPHttpApplication
 SPRequestModule
 SPHttpHandler
 SPVirtualPathProvider
 Virtual directories in web application

12. Wildcard Application Mapping
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13. Custom Global.asax file with SPHttpApplication
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class

14. SPRequestModule as the first module in the
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ASP.NET pipeline
This gives WSS a chance to perform some
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initializations.

15. SPHttpHandler as the final destination for almost
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all of the requests to the web application

16. SPVirtualPathProvider
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 WSS stores pages in the content database!
 Those pages are retrieved on demand and processed.
 This is drastically different from typical ASP.NET
application where the pages live on the file system.
 No fear, SPVirtualPathProvider is here!
 Uses a new feature of ASP.NET 2.0 called Virtual Path
Provider.
 SPVirtualPathProvider is responsible for loading pages
either from the file system or the content database.

17. Couple of virtual directories are created under
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the IIS web site.
 _controltemplates
 _layouts
 _vti_bin
 _wpresources

18. Virtual directories under the IIS web site.
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19. See do we develop applications in ASP.NET?
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Compare that to WSS/MOSS development
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 Paradigm change (new concepts and constructs)
 XML based development
 Different way of deployment

20. Site Pages
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Application Pages
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User Controls
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WSS/MOSS Object Model and Web Services
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Event Receivers
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21. Custom Site/List Definitions
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Custom InfoPath Forms
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Custom Workflows
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Extending BDC (Protocol Handlers, etc)
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Excel Services
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22. Site Pages
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23. Application Pages
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24. User Controls
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25. WSS/MOSS Object Model and Web Services
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 Assembly based object model is for the code that runs
on the same server
 Web Services are for managing WSS/MOSS through
remote clients
 Assembly based object model is richer and faster than
web services
 Most of the WSS/MOSS functionality is available

26. Event Receivers
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 As the name implies; these classes receive events.
 Five types of event receivers
 Item Event Receivers
 List Event Receivers
 Email Event Receivers
 Feature Receivers
 Web Event Receivers
 Two main types of events captured by an event receiver
 Before events (Synchronous)
 After events (Asynchronous)
 Must live in GAC

27. Item Event Receivers
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 Derives from SPItemEventReceiver class
 Events are raised for the list items

28. List Event Receivers
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 Derives from SPListEventReceiver class
 Events are raised when the list schema changes

29. Email Event Receivers
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 Derives from SPEmailEventReceiver class
 Event is raised when a list receives an email message

30. Feature Receivers
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 Derives from SPFeatureReceiver class
 Events are raised whenever a Feature is manipulated
by WSS.

31. Web Event Receivers
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 Derives from SPWebEventReceiver class
 Events are raised whenever changes occur to sites or
web applications.

32. Demo

33. Features
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 Unit of Deployment
 WSS/MOSS provide many of the their functionalities
through features

34. Deployment
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 WSP
 Consolidates all of the artifacts into one deployment
package file (.wsp)
 A typical CAB file created using makecab.exe
 Some ad-hoc tools available for creating the supporting
.ddf file needed by makecab.exe
 The deployment of the package can be scheduled using
the stsadm or Central Admin tool.

35. Demo

36. SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges
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 Allows the code to perform administrative tasks which
would not be possible to perform under normal
execution
 Runs the delegate method as the WSS SYSTEM
identity (means no authorization in WSS/MOSS!)

37. WSS/MOSS Log
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 Contains tons of information for debugging issues
 Log File Content

38. Change the .config file in order to get rich error
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messages during development (No more “An
unexpected error has occurred” message)
 Turn the CallStack to true (it is false by default)
 Turn off customErrors

39. Add 12 folder to the task bar
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40. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005
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Extensions, Version 1.1
 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3E1DCC
CD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en
User Guide and Samples for Visual Studio 2005 extensions for
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A8A4E77
5-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787
STSDEV: Simple Tools for SharePoint 2007 Development
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 http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev
SharePoint Manager 2007
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 http://www.codeplex.com/spm
SharePoint Developer Explorer
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 http://www.codeplex.com/spdevexplorer
SharePoint SmartTemplates for Visual Studio
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 http://www.codeplex.com/smarttemplates

41. PowerShell Extensions for SharePoint
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 http://www.codeplex.com/SPPSExtensions
SharePoint 2007 List Membership Provider
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 http://www.codeplex.com/SPListMP
SharePoint AJAX Toolkit
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 http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointajax
Community Kit for SharePoint
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 http://www.codeplex.com/CKS
Accessibility Kit for SharePoint
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 http://www.codeplex.com/aks
SharePoint 2007 WCM Field Controls
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 http://www.codeplex.com/SPWCMFieldControls
WSPBuilder
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 http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator
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 http://www.codeplex.com/SPConfigurator