What You'll Learn

• How SharePoint 2007's architecture aligns with ASP.NET 2.0
• Using ASP.NET to build web sites using page and site branding
• Develop Web Parts, list types, content types, and InfoPath 2007 forms
• Create and customize SharePoint workflows
• Extend SharePoint's 2007 standard portal and search capabilities to create customized portal sites
• Manage the web content management process
• Leverage and manage Excel Services and Report Center

Course Outline

1. SharePoint 2007 Developer Road Map

• Architectural overview of SharePoint and the Office 2007 system
• WSS as a collaboration solution
• WSS as a server-side development platform
• Overview of MOSS components and services
• Creating and testing your first WSS feature

2. SharePoint Architecture

• WSS Integration with ASP.NET 2.0
• The configuration database and content databases
• Configuring the web.config file for a Web application
• Site pages vs. application pages
• Creating and debugging custom application pages

3. Pages and Site Branding

• Page parsing and Safe Mode restrictions
• Creating a feature with custom page templates
• Designing page templates using controls and Web Part zones
• The standard default.master page template
• Creating a feature to apply branding at the site-collection level
• Understanding and extending the CSS classes in core.css

4. Developing Web Parts

• Creating, deploying, and debugging ASP.NET Web Parts in WSS
• Designing Web Parts with persistent properties
• Web Part Description files and the Web Part Gallery
• Creating a feature to import Web Parts into the Web Part Gallery
• Backwards compatibility with WSS V2-style Web Parts

5. Lists and Content Types

• New WSS 3.0 enhancements to lists and document libraries
• Defining site columns, custom field types, and content types
• Provisioning document libraries using a feature
• Defining a custom list type using a feature
• Creating event handlers using custom event receiver classes

6. Forms Services with InfoPath 2007

• Creating input forms with InfoPath
• InfoPath integration with WSS forms libraries
• Forms Services Architecture
• Designing server-side forms with InfoPath 2007
• User deployment of server-side forms vs. administrator deployment

7. SharePoint Workflows

• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Primer
• Creating WF programs in Visual Studio with the workflow designer
• Creating, deploying, and debugging workflow templates for WSS
• Creating workflow associations and workflow instances
• Developing workflows which create and wait on WSS tasks
• Creating workflow input forms for MOSS using Microsoft InfoPath

8. Extending MOSS Portal and Search

• Shared Service Provider (SSP) Architecture
• Creating sites from the MOSS Collaboration Portal site template
• User Profiles and Audience Targeting
• MOSS infrastructure for creating MySites
• Configuring and extending MOSS Search

9. The Business Data Catalog (BDC)

• Working with BDC Application Definition Files
• Application, Entities, Methods, and Associations
• Surfacing backend data using BDC Web Parts
• BDC integration with MOSS search
• Creating custom Web Parts that execute BDC queries

10. Web Content Management

• Customizing sites creating from the MOSS Publishing Site template
• Creating content types and custom page layouts for Web content
• The MOSS content approval process
• Converting Office documents into web-ready formats
• Optimizing performance with MOSS caching features

11. Excel Services and Report Center

• Introduction to Excel Services
• Publishing Excel spreadsheets that render in the browser
• Trusted locations, connections, and user-defined functions (UDFs)
• Creating Dashboard pages with Report Center
• Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and filters
• MOSS integration with SQL Reporting Services

12. SharePoint Application Security

• Windows Authentication vs. Forms Authentication
• WSS Identities and Security Contexts
• Escalation of Privilege
• Delegating User Credentials
• Configuring Securable objects within a site
• Using the MOSS Single Sign On (SSO) Service

Labs

Lab 1: Customizing a WSS Site

Lab 2: Developing Your First Feature

Lab 3: Developing Custom Application Pages

Lab 4: Developing Custom Site Pages

Lab 5: Creating Custom Web Parts

Lab 6: Site Columns and Content Types

Lab 7: Working with InfoPath Forms

Lab 8: Creating Custom Workflows for MOSS

Lab 9: Creating and Customizing a Corporate Portal Site

Lab 10: Web Content Management with MOSS 2007

Lab 11: Business Data Catalog

Lab 12: Excel Services and Report Center

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