SharePoint 2010 Development Class Details

The SharePoint Development Course shows how to use Visual Studio to make necessary customizations and application integration. One needs to be familiar with .NET technologies to be successful in this course. We cover important fundamental and administration topics before going into development because we believe that to be able to make proper customizations, the developer needs to understand SharePoint inside and out. We focus on cost effective SharePoint development because everything can be customized but not everything should be. Also, in many cases, customizations should be done using Designer and InfoPath instead of Visual Studio. (class dates)

Course Overview
Outline - Part 1
Outline - Part 2
Outline - Part 3

All the topics covered in the Fundamentals / Administration courses.
Visual Studio 2010 templates for SharePoint
Details of most widely used sections of the SharePoint API (site collections, sites, lists, lists items, list queries, fields, user profiles, web applications)
Elevation in SharePoint
Using Impersonation in SharePoint to access external data sources
How to access API on the client site
How to use event handlers
How to develop and deploy web parts manually and using SharePoint templates
How to build custom queries and result sets for search
How to develop and deploy workflow actions
When not to develop in SharePoint - quick guide to making the right decision
Will prepare you for following certification exams: 70-573, 70-576, 70-667, and 70-668

Part 1 - Fundamentals

Content Management / Site Collection Administration

1. Definitions, History, and Expectations

Definitions
History
Editions
How to Make SharePoint Successful

2. Sites, Lists, Versioning

Site Collection
Site
Navigation
List
- Columns
- Views
- Form Editing with InfoPath
Versioning

3. Pages, Web Parts, Themes

Site Pages
Web Parts
Themes

4. InfoPath Forms

Form design

Fields / columns
Visual layout

Two column layout
Four column layout
SharePoint themes

Logic
Rules
Validation
Hide / show controls
External data

List forms vs. form library

Digital signatures
Complicated schema -not all fields stored in SharePoint list
Sand box code

InfoPath Form Web Part

5. Office, Offline, Notifications, Personal Sites

Outlook – calendars, contacts, and tasks
Access - web databases (SharePoint sites)
SharePoint Workspace – offline content
Excel Services - Business Intelligence Dashboards using web parts and filters

6. Notifications and User Profiles

List Alerts and RSS
User Profiles
Personal Content
Search

7. Security Authorization

Permissions and Permission Levels
Site Collection Administrator
Authentication vs. Authorization
What provides authentication
Who can assign permissions
SharePoint groups

8. Site Administration Tools

Manage Content and Structure Tool
Features
Recycle Bin
List and Site Templates
Usage Statistics

9. Project: Libraries and Lists

Setup Research Papers library with folders and metadata
Setup Area for Industry Clinic project management
Media Management - Picture and Video sharing and categorization using metadata

10. Advanced Information Management

Site Columns
Content Types
Content Type Use Cases
Information Management Policies
Workflows - Out of box

11. Project: Document Center Functionality

Document IDs
Document Sets
Link to Document and Document Navigation

12. SharePoint Designer for Site Administrators

Editing Look and Feel

Master/Content Pages
Editing List Forms using SharePoint Designer (vs InfoPath)

Data Form/View Web Part
Business Data Services

External Lists
External Content Types
Editing Forms

Workflows

Steps, Conditions and Branches.
Actions
Storage and Lookup Variables

Part 2 - Administration

System Administration / Architecture

15. Introduction to Administration

What to expect
What we will learn
Where to go from here

16. Introduction to PowerShell

Stsadm?
Basic examples of using PowerShell

17. Site Collection as System Administrator

Why to make multiple Site Collections

Data separation
Backup consideration

How to create Site Collections

Central Administration
Self Service
PowerShell

18. Web Application Management

Web Application Settings

Application pool settings
Authentications settings

Claims
Integrated
Forms

Content Databases
Alternative Access Mappings

Creating and extending web application

19. IIS and SQL Server

What IIS does and when you should interact with it
What SQL does and when you should interact with it
Application and Safe Pages
SQL Database types

20. User Profile Service Application

User Profiles, Properties, and Audiences
Synchronization with AD
Organizational Profiles
My Site Settings

21. Search Service Application

Search architecture
Content sources and crawl rules
Properties
FAST

22. Backup and Restore

Importing and Exporting
Backing up through Central Administration
Backing up through PowerShell
Restoration
Unattached content database recovery

23. Features and Site Definitions

The 14 folder
Site Definition definition
Features
Also in the hive

Part 3 - Development Outline

Development / Architecture

25. Development Overview

State of Development
Development Components
SharePoint API
Types of Applications
Application Integration
List Manipulation and Location

26. SharePoint API

SharePoint Foundation
- Sites and Site Collections
- List Manipulation
- List Queries
- Security
- Central Administration
SharePoint Server
- Search API
- User Profiles

27. Elevation and Impersonation in SharePoint

Different methods to elevate in SharePoint
Authentication models for accessing external data
Accessing external data by impersonating SharePoint application pool account within a web part user control

28. Client API

Access SharePoint Client API in a console application
Access SharePoint Client API in an application page in ECMAScript

29. Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint Development - Audit Application

Creating Application Pages and User Controls
Creating Custom Actions for the ribbon and other pages
Creating Visual Web Parts
Creating List Definitions and Instances
Creating Event Receivers
Examining deployment process
Understanding Feature and Solution Packages

30. Workflow Actions

Creating new workflow actions for SharePoint Designer