Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group January 13 th, 2010 SharePoint 2010 – Composites Wes Preston Raymond Mitchell Eray Chou - Microsoft Meeting #62

Session Agenda Introductions Composites SharePoint 2007 Composites SharePoint 2010 Composites Break Development Business Connectivity Services Raymond’s Favorites Q&A

Quick Intro Wes Preston – SharePoint Consultant – MVP – SharePoint Server – MCTS – WSS and MOSS Configuration

Quick Intro Raymond Mitchell – SharePoint Consultant at Inetium – MCTS WSS and MOSS Configuration WSS and MOSS Development – Author:

Quick Intro Eray Chou – Senior Lead Program Manager SharePoint Designer Team – Focused on data integration and no-code application building scenarios – Data View / Data Form Web Part and External Lists

User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions

Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium ( Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning ( Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (

Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations

Social Networking Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… – Facebook group – Twitter tag

Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting February 10 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: TBD Check for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2 nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

Local Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group – January 26 th, :30 PM SharePoint 2010 – Business Connectivity Services Migrating to SharePoint 2010 – January 20, Edina, MN

Conferences SPTechCon – February 10-12, San Francisco, CA MNSPUG members and newsletter subscribers receive a $100 discount off the Full Event Passport and/or gain free admission to the exhibits (first time registrants only - cannot be combined with other offers) by inserting the code MEDIASPONSOR when prompted on the eRegistration page linked from

Conferences SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo – March 16-19, Las Vegas, NV The SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo is THE essential conference for details on the release of SharePoint 2010 and includes in-depth technical training on solution development and customization of Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Conferences SharePointPro 2010 Summit & Expo – March 16-19, Las Vegas, NV Related Pre-Conference Workshop: Building Composite Applications using SharePoint Designer 2010 and the BCS

Announcements Public Beta 2 available now! – Register for it here: – Lots of information from Microsoft and on the forums about installation, etc… Update Center is now live – SharePoint 2007 News: – MOSS WITH SP2 slipstream now available for download!

Composites

What are Composites? Business users of all roles need the ability to quickly create customized solutions without involving corporate IT in each request. At the same time, the IT staff needs the capability to empower business users to create these applications while ensuring the environment’s stability and availability. On the old wheel: Portals Composites

SharePoint Composites Solution Deployment Data Connectivity User-Driven Solutions Composites

Business Case for Composites ViewsProcess Automation DashboardsCapture Content KPIsNotifications Data VisualizationAct on Data Composites

Composites in SharePoint 2007

ViewsProcess Automation List ViewsLists and Libraries Web Part PagesInfoPath Forms Connected Web PartsAlerts and Workflows BDC Composites in SharePoint 2007 Out of the box

Composites in SharePoint 2007 ViewsProcess Automation Data View Web Parts.NET Event Receivers.NET Web Parts.NET Workflows Composites in SharePoint 2007 Development

Composites in SharePoint 2007 ViewsProcess Automation SharePoint Designer 2007 InfoPath Outlook Visual Studio 2008 Composites in SharePoint 2007 Tools

Composite Application Examples Mashups – Display data from multiple sources Web Service, Database, etc – Display contacts as a map Composites in SharePoint 2010

Composite Application Examples Mashups Composites in SharePoint 2010

Composite Application Examples Fab 40 – Board of Directors – Timecard Management – Bug Database – Help Desk – Inventory Tracking Composites in SharePoint 2010

Composite Application Examples Real world example: – SPC09 Info site – Custom Web Parts – Content Editor with iFramed content from YouTube Composites in SharePoint 2010

Key Investments SharePoint Designer Custom List Forms with InfoPath Workflow Improvements Access Services Visio Services Development BCS Composites in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Designer Still Free! New UI – Ribbon – Supports managing SharePoint objects Only works with SharePoint 2010 Composites in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Designer Data View / Data Form Web Part – Display data as if it was a SharePoint List XML Database Web Service Linked Data Sources – Uses XSLT, supports conditional formatting – Swiss Army Knife Composites in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Designer Data View / Data Form Web Part – New item forms, delete item action buttons – Single or multiple item editing forms Composites in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Designer New List Views – XSLT List View Web Part (XLV) – Supports browser editing as well as rich customizations in SPD (Conditional Formatting, etc.) – Uses XSLT instead of CAML list-view-blog-series-part-1-introduction-to-the-new-list-view.aspx Composites in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Designer Custom Forms – Can modify form layout – Create custom forms for each Content Type Custom Actions – Add links to the ribbon or List Item Menu (LIM) Workflows – More later… Composites in SharePoint 2010

Demo Composites in SharePoint 2010

Custom List Forms with InfoPath Use InfoPath to design forms InfoPath features: – Default values – Rules – External Data Connections Composites in SharePoint 2010

Demo Composites in SharePoint 2010

Workflow Improvements Composites in SharePoint 2010

Workflow Improvements Improved design experience in SPD: Composites in SharePoint 2010

Workflow Improvements Export/Import Visio Composites in SharePoint 2010

Workflow Improvements Impersonation Steps – Step will run as the workflow author, not the user that started the workflow New Actions/Conditions Composites in SharePoint 2010

Workflow Improvements Reusable Workflows – Associate to a List or Content Type – Exported as.wsp solution file Site Workflows – Not tied to a specific list Customizable Approval Workflow – Not customizable in 2007 Composites in SharePoint 2010

Demo Composites in SharePoint 2010

Access Services Publish Access Databases to SharePoint “Web Databases” Converts Access objects into SharePoint artifacts Users can continue to work in Access and use SharePoint Composites in SharePoint 2010

Access Services Out of the box samples: – Assets Web Database – Charitable Contributions Web Database – Contacts Web Database – Issues Web Database – Projects Web Database Composites in SharePoint 2010

Demo Composites in SharePoint 2010

Visio Services Advanced Data Visualization Visualize Data from multiple data sources – SQL Server – SharePoint – Excel Workbooks – Custom data sources Visio Services Web Part – supports refreshing Composites in SharePoint 2010

Visio Services Composites in SharePoint 2010

Development Go beyond your no-code solutions Lots of new improvements Developers can build reusable components to empower Business Users More after the break… Composites in SharePoint 2010

Business Connectivity Services BCS – 2010 version of Business Data Catalog Surface Line of Business data in SharePoint More after the break… Composites in SharePoint 2010

Break 5-10 minute break

Development

Key Investments – Visual Studio 2010 – Sandboxed Solutions – Workflows / Event Receivers – Silverlight for RIA development – Client API / REST Development

Visual Studio 2010 Improved Project Templates / overall integration Automates Solution/Feature creation Extremely easy to use Save sites as.wsp solutions which can be opened in Visual Studio Development

Sandboxed Solutions Deploy solutions within boundaries Deploy without a Systems Administrator and without impacting server health Some possible solutions: – Web Parts – Custom.NET Workflow actions – Event Receivers Development

Workflows / Event Receivers Build and deploy: – Custom.NET Workflows – Custom reusable Actions and Conditions Additional Events: – List added/deleted – Workflow starting/completed – Site Provisioning Development

Silverlight for RIA Development Silverlight Web Part Client API – Subset of the full SharePoint Object Model – Supports working with SharePoint objects remotely Development

Client API / REST Work with the Object Model Remotely Query using REST style web services Syntax: – /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/{Entity}[({identifier})]/[{Property}] Example to get budget hours for Project $4: – /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/Projects(4)/BudgetHours Example to get Projects for Clients in Chicago: – /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/Projects?$filter=Client/City eq ‘Chicago’ Development

Demo Development Improvements

Screen Shot Demo Development Improvements

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Visual Studio 2010 Development

Business Connectivity Services

BCS? – 2010 Version of Business Data Catalog (BDC) – Connects to Line of Business (LOB) data SQL Server Web Services Custom.NET Classes – Surfaces data in SharePoint Business Connectivity Services

External Content Types? – Not Content Types! – Connection to an external data source – Surface data as: External List External Data (column in a SharePoint list) Business Connectivity Services

Key Investments – Read + Write – Development Environment SharePoint Designer Visual Studio 2010 – Office as a Platform Surface BCS data in Outlook/Word/Workspace Business Connectivity Services

Demo Business Connectivity Services

Raymond’s Favorites Development

Favorites in the 2010 Toolkit Data Views / Forms Chart Web Part Business Connectivity Services Custom List Forms / Actions Raymond’s Favorites

References SharePoint Designer Team Blog: SharePoint Team Blog:

Q & A

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