Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group (MODIG) July 22, 2008 Developing against SharePoint Remotely (No Object Model Allowed!) Raymond Mitchell Inetium

The Plan  Introduction  You are here  Feature Presentation  Developing against SharePoint Remotely  Next Topic Selection  Random Stuff

User Group Goals  Provide a community for SharePoint Developers  Share development knowledge  Exchange tips/tricks/other/free pizza  Add 2,000 List Items….in JavaScript

User Group Format  Presentations  1-2 per meeting (targeting 1.25 Hours)  Hopefully Demo Heavy (Slides are for MBAs)  Highlights of Nifty Things  See next slide  QA/Discussion/Random Things

Call for Cool Stuff  Created something cool?  Send Screenshots or Videos  We’ll try to feature some items here

Sharepointmn.com/modig/  Our current home  Meeting information  Usually has the right time  Previous presentations  Running on SharePoint  As required by SharePoint User Group Law

Upcoming  Next Meeting  August 26 (Tuesday 5:30pm)  Topic: TBD – Hopefully later today  Location: Based on Feedback  MNSPUG  August 13 (9:00am – Noon)  Topic : Panel Discussion (sharepointmn.com)sharepointmn.com

The Plan  But, I love the Object Model!  Why you can’t use the OM all the time  Remote possibilities  SharePoint Web Services  Introduction  What’s available  How do I use them?  Hey – those don’t do what I want!  The dark alley that is RPC  Introduction  What’s available  How do I use them?  Where can I learn more?  Questions

Working with SharePoint Remotely

But, I love the Object Model!  We all do…  You can only use the Object Model on the server  Scenarios:  Remote administration tools  Integration with desktop application  Silverlight!

Remote Possibilities…  SharePoint Designer!  OOTB WSS Web Services  OOTB MOSS Web Services  Custom Web Services  FP RPC  WSS RPC

SharePoint Web Services

 Introduction  Located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\ISAPI  Accessible via

SharePoint Web Services  What’s available in WSS

SharePoint Web Services  What’s available in MOSS

DEMO: The basics  Add a Web Reference and get back a list of lists for a web

DEMO: Play from PoSH!  Use the Get-WebService Proxy Generator

SharePoint Web Services  Hey – those don’t do what I want!  Deploy your own Web Service!  Allows you to use the Object Model  Permissions/Deployment can be tricky

DEMO: I do what I want  Deploy and consume a custom Web Service

Remote Procedure Call

SharePoint RPC  Introduction  Remote Procedure Call  Execute commands via HTTP POST  Two kinds:  FrontPage RPC (FPRPC)  WSS RPC  Three Targets:  _vti_bin/_vti_adm/admin.dll  _vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll  _vti_bin/owssvr.dll

SharePoint RPC  What’s available - FPRPC

SharePoint RPC  What’s available – WSS RPC

SharePoint RPC  Permissions  Permissions count! You can only do with RPC what you have access to do via the Web UI  Once you have authenticated, a Request Digest is sent down that you can use for future calls.

SharePoint RPC  How do I use them? Authenticate and retrieve a Request Digest Submit a POST command to the appropriate URL Retrieve the server’s response

DEMO: JavaScript Test Page  Submit RPC commands via JavaScript

SharePoint RPC  How do I use them?  Not just a JavaScript thing :-)  Use.NET to submit RPC commands

SharePoint RPC  Where can I learn more?  SharePoint Designer knows!  Use Fiddler to watch what SPD is doing

DEMO: Learn from SPD  Use Fiddler to watch the HTTP traffic between SharePoint Designer and SharePoint

SharePoint RPC  Where can I learn more?  HubKey’s document-focused RPC Library

DEMO: Play with HubKey’s Framework  Get a list of documents

Resources

 Web MSDN:   MSDN:   More than you ever wanted to know:  RPC Protocol Specifications  

Resources  Blogs:    PowerShell Proxy Generator  ratorForPowerShell.aspx ratorForPowerShell.aspx

Resources  HubKey C# Code Library documents.html  Minnesota Silverlight User Group  SharePoint + Silverlight User Group Session  Tuesday, September 16 th

Next Meeting Planning  Possible Topics  Workflow  Timer Jobs/Alert Event  Panel/Roundtable  General Site Provisioning (Site Defs/Templates/Features)  …  More RPC

Random Stuff Raymond Mitchell Inetium Feedback Forms/Giveaway Mingle, Eat, Feedback See you next time!