SharePoint Services v3 For Developers

The course will recap the ways in which SharePoint can be customised from the browser, and then consider more in-depth customisation. Delegates will then be given a general overview of the architecture of WSS, including an introduction to the available development tools and their functionality.

The course will recap the ways in which SharePoint can be customised from the browser, and then consider more in-depth customisation. Delegates will then be given a general overview of the architecture of WSS, including an introduction to the available development tools and their functionality.

Delegates will learn to use SharePoint Designer to customise a SharePoint site, including editing its master page and CSS styles as well as creating new lists and customising them, and creating new workflows.

The course will then move on to using Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS. Here a custom site definition will be created, and delegates will learn how to use features and elements within WSS to construct a list definition with an event receiver.

In addition to this new web parts will be created, and delegates will see how to connect these to each other and add AJAX behaviour. Following on from this, delegates will investigate the SharePoint object model, and the WSS web services that can connect external applications to WSS.

This will lead onto creating custom field types and using these to create a content type. Lastly, delegates will create a new workflow and a new action for SharePoint Designer, using Visual Studio.

Pre-requisites

The course assumes 6 months development experience with ASP.NET v2.0, or equivalent knowledge, plus end-user knowledge of SharePoint.

If you attend a course and do not meet the prerequisites, you may be asked to leave.

Course content

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Describe how WSS handles web requests using the content database and the 12 hive
• Define common concepts of WSS, including Solutions, Features, Elements, CAML and Web Parts
• Modify a SharePoint site from a web browser
• Create and modify sites, lists and workflows using SharePoint Designer.
• Modify the master page and CSS style of a site using SharePoint Designer
• Create custom site definitions in Visual Studio
• Create custom actions and list definitions in Visual Studio
• Create custom styles and master pages, and use features for branding
• Create Event Receivers in Visual Studio
• Create complex web parts, including AJAX web parts, and connect them to each other
• Create custom field types and custom rendering for them
• Connect other applications to SharePoint using web services and the SharePoint object model
• Create and use a new SharePoint workflow using Visual Studio
• Create new workflow actions for SharePoint Designer using Visual Studio