1. Eric Maurer Copyright Keller Schroder 2008

2.  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2  Includes Projects For  Web Parts  List Definition  Site Definitions  Caveats  Must run on a SharePoint server  No visual designer  Be careful when renaming web parts

3.  Default constructor  Initialize variables and hook up event handlers here  Override Create Child Controls  Add all controls to the web part’s controls  Override Render Contents  This method can be overridden to write content directly to the output.

4.  SPContext – Current context of the HTTP request  SPSite – Site Collection  SPContext.Current.Site  new SPSite(url)  SPWeb – Site  Spcontext.Current.Web  site.AllWebs[“name”]  SPUser – User Web.CurrentUser

5.  Do not dispose if using SPContext  This is used internally by SharePoint and it will handle disposing of them when the page is closed  Use dispose if you are using the “new” methods  SPSite site = new Site(http://...), you must dispose of the SPSite and SPWeb if used to prevent memory leaks, by using a using statement or a try, catch, finally block.http://...  Also sites or webs created in foreach statements must be disposed. foreach(SPWeb web in site.AllWebs) { //do something here web.Dispose(); }

6.  Use the Visual Studio Tools to create a Solution file  Use a custom batch file to deploy the web part a feature stsadm.exe -o addsolution -filename webpartpath.wsp stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -immediate -allowGacDeployment -name webpartname.wsp -url http://… -force stsadm.exe -o execadmsvcjobs stsadm.exe -o installfeature -filename webpartname\feature.xml stsadm.exe -o activatefeature –name webpartname -url http://... iisreset