SharePoint 2007 for Developers
What's the deal with Windows
SharePoint Server (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services?Lynn Langit
and I are doing a webcast series on Windows SharePoint 3.0 as a platform for
developers and looking at the tools and technologies available for
customizing portals and sites.
In April we are on Mondays, but it looks like May we will be switching to a
Friday format. As always I will post the links and code as they become
available. Here is our schedule so far:
New Stuff!
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Part 1 – SharePoint for Developers 4/13/2007 1 pm PST:
Join the first webcast of this four-part series to find out what you need to
know about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a developer. We cover the
basics of SharePoint Server 2007, and we show how you can use this new product
to simplify collaboration, development, and management of your software
projects. Learn what it takes to set up SharePoint Server 2007, customize the
master pages, and how you can use other tools to develop custom applications.
Attend this session to discover compelling reasons for choosing the new 2007
Microsoft Office system and SharePoint Server 2007 for your solution development
needs.
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Part 2 – SharePoint Designer 2007
4/16/2006 1 pm PST: There are many tools to choose from for developing Web
sites; in this second installment of our series, we look at Microsoft Office
SharePoint Designer 2007, a new product for creating standards-based Web sites.
See how you can build powerful applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Products
and Technologies platform to enhance your productivity and deliver rich-looking
sites. Join this session to learn how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to
take advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET version 2.0, Web Parts, and integration with
SharePoint Products and Technologies.
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Part 3 – Migrating to SharePoint
4/23/2006 1 pm PST: Do you have a portal site that you would like to host
in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? In this third installment of our
series on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for developers, see
what is involved in the process of moving a portal site to Windows SharePoint
Services. Topics we cover include: using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
2007 to customize the master page, creating new content types, and working with
workflow.
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Part 4 – SharePoint and Access 2007 4/30/2007 1 pm PST:
So far in this webcast series, we covered how Microsoft SharePoint Products and
Technologies serve as powerful collaboration tools. In this final session, we
take a look at how Microsoft Office Access 2007 integrates with Microsoft
Windows SharePoint Services. Join this session to learn how Access 2007, the
popular data management application, and Windows SharePoint Services enable you
to centralize and simplify data management, and share data across your
organization.
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SharePoint and Workflow 5/11/2007 1 pm PST: In this
webcast, we discuss the ability to use, update, and create custom workflows that
you can employ in your Windows SharePoint Services site. We show the built-in
workflow capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services, and we also demonstrate
what customizations are available. In addition, we describe how to use Microsoft
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to open, view, and modify included workflows. We
conclude the presentation with a detailed demonstration of the capabilities of
the Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer 2007.
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Part 6 – SharePoint and Content Types 5/18/2007 1 pm PST:
Join this webcast as we review the concept of content types as they relate to
Windows SharePoint Services sites. We explain the default (included) content
types first. We then discuss why you may want to update the built-in content
types or create your own. We also demonstrate how to create custom content types
and provide several business examples of why and where you might wish to do
this. We conclude this session by showing some of the newly created content
types in action on a Windows SharePoint Services site.
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Part 7 – SharePoint and Forms Services 5/25/2007 1 pm PST:
In this webcast, we explore Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 as a form tool and
describe how you can host forms centrally via the InfoPath Forms Services
feature of Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. We provide an overview of
InfoPath 2007, demonstrating both how to customize an included template form and
how to create a custom form that connects to Microsoft SQL Server. Next, we
illustrate how to configure the Windows SharePoint Services administrative Web
site, which is required to set up appropriate permissions (and other settings)
to use InfoPath Forms Services.
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Part 8 – SharePoint and the Business Data Catalog 6/1/2007 10
am PST: Join this webcast as we explain the concepts surrounding the
Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new business integration feature in Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007. We demonstrate the use of an application
definition file (ADF) to create the connection between your Windows SharePoint
Services site and a custom data source, and we show you how to use an ADF
creation tool. Learn to use BDC-derived data with included Web parts, such as
the filtering Web part. We conclude this webcast with a discussion of the
various ways we have worked with the BDC in production.
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Part 9 – Web Parts and Work Flows 6/8/2007 10 am PST: In
this webcast, we discuss and demonstrate the creation of Web parts and workflows
for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services and the Microsoft .NET Framework
version 3.0 workflow extensions to customize and create both Web parts and
workflows. Join us to learn about the concept of features as they relate to
SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts.
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Part 10 – Sites and Templates 6/15/2007 10 am PST: In this
webcast, we dive into how the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for
Windows SharePoint Services can enable you to take Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007 even further. We start with an overview of project types and show
how you can add event handlers, site definitions, and more into your tool belt.
We look at creating site templates and master pages for SharePoint Server 2007,
and we provide an example of how to customize and replace templates
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Part 11 – SharePoint and Business Intelligence 6/22/2007 10 am
PST: In this webcast, we discuss business intelligence (BI) (advanced
reporting) integration with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web
site. We demonstrate configuration of Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007,
key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. We use the Report Center template
and show you how you can easily integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into your
site
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Part 12 – Developing SharePoint Workflows 7/6/2007 10 am PST:
Windows SharePoint Services provides excellent facilities for working with
business processes. In this "webcast by request," we review the workflow
development processes associated with Windows SharePoint Services. We look at
the included workflows, modifying workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint
Designer 2007, and creating and modifying workflows in the Microsoft Visual
Studio development system
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Part 13 - Customizing SharePoint: 3/6/2008: Ever wondered how
you can use SharePoint but have
your own custom look and feel? In this webcast we will look at the site
customization techniques of creating custom MasterPages, Themes and Layouts to
give your web site your own look and feel.
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Part 14 - SharePoint and Authentication: 3/13/2008: IIn this
session we cover the basics and how to use the Authentication and Membership
Providers. We look at creating a custom provider and CardSpace can be used to
login to your SharePoint site. This session will look at the advanced tools
available in IIS 7.0 for configuring and deploying SharePoint.
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Part 15 - SharePoint and AJAX 3/20/2008: Explore the world of
modern web development techniques by looking at how Microsoft’s AJAX library and
SharePoint can be used together to deliver compelling user experience. In this
webcast we show the various approaches to integrating AJAX in WSS 3.0 and then
cover what’s improved in sp1.
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Part 16 - SharePoint and SilverLight: 3/27/2008: Rich User
Experience is getting easier to create with the release of Silverlight. In this
session we show how Silverlight takes advantage of XAML and provides an easy way
to build compelling user interfaces. We will demonstrate using the 1.0 version
of Silverlight as well as what’s new in 2.0 that allows the developer and
designer to collaborate to build exciting new applications.