SDM Presentation Template

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SharePoint Developer Tips, Tricks and Tools
Aaron Saikovski Senior Solutions Specialist, SDM
(Founder of www.ozmoss.com) E
aaron.saikovski_at_sdm.com.au W www.sdm.com.au B
http//ruskydotnet.blogspot.com/
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Overview - SharePoint as a Developer platform
• Common Myths
• Getting Started?
• Demo Developing with SharePoint
• Cool Tools
• SP1 changes
• The future..
• Questions
• Resources

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Introduction

• SharePoint is a great development platform
• WSS/MOSS is a Server product
• There is no developer edition...yet
• Administration and Development tasks can overlap
• SharePoint gives you lots out of the box
• Is my project suited to SharePoint?
• What do I get for free?
• Can SharePoint really do that?

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SharePoint as a developer platform

• Quick and easy to install and configure
• WSS/MOSS SDKs with samples
• Code samples, blogs etc available
• Active (and vocal) community, user groups
• Minimal coding needed (generally)
• Rich customisation experience
• Integrates with version control, build tools etc
• Visual Studio 2005/2008 integration
• Think of it as ASP.NET

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Common Myths

• Limited toolset support
• Debugging is not supported
• There is no code behind support
• No source control integration
• Deployment of custom components is hard
• Test Driven development cant be done
• The platform isnt mature yet
• No AJAX or Silverlight support

Not True!!
Yes!!
SP1
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Getting Started

• Virtual PC 2007 Windows 2003 Virtual
  Environment
• Windows Server 2008 x64 - Hyper-V Environment
• Windows SharePoint Services V3 (Min) SP1
• MOSS 2007 Enterprise SP1
• Visual Studio 2005 VseWSS V1.1
• SharePoint Designer
• InfoPath Client
• SQL Server 2005 SP2 hotfixes
• WSS MOSS SDKs Now V1.3
• 64 Bit Vista gt 4GB RAM Ideal!

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Demo

• Developing with SharePoint

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Cool Tools (free)

• Visual Studio 2005 WSS Extensions - VseWSS V1.1
• WSP Builder VS.Net Extensions
• SharePoint solution installer
• Return of SmartPart V1.3 now with AJAX
• Echo software - SharePoint Spy
• Ontolica SharePoint Explorer
• U2U CAML builder V3.0
• Harbar.net - Application Pool Manager

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Service Pack 1 changes

• ASP.NET AJAX is now supported
• Large file upload support (2GB, was 50MB)
• WSS MOSS SDKs updated v1.3
• New Extensions to STSADM
• Numerous bug fixes includes OWSTimer leaks
• And many more...

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The future...is 64 bit

• MOSS 2007..last of the 32 bit SharePoint
  platforms
• No upgrade path from 32 -gt 64 bit on same
  hardware
• Cannot mix 32-bit and 64-bit Web front-end (WFE)
  servers
• Windows server 2008 is the last of the 32 bit
  server OSs!
• VseWSS V1.1 not supported on Win2008 x64 ?
• 64 bit version of Return of SmartPart available

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Questions?
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Resources

• Australian SharePoint Community Mailing List
• www.ozmoss.com
• SharePoint Team Blog
• http//blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/
• WSS Developer Centre
• http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/defaul
  t.aspx
• Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
• http//www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/