Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications

This five-day instructor-led course is intended for SharePoint Development professionals who are responsible for leading projects, designing solutions, and identifying problems. In this course, students learn the skills and best practices that are required to help organizations design and develop effective SharePoint applications.

 

This course is intended for developers and development leads who will be responsible for designing custom code solutions that are deployed to SharePoint 2010 servers. To be successful in this course, the student will have at least two years of SharePoint development experience and should have experience with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010.

•Develop strategies for caching, session state, as well as design for high performance sites by limiting page size and iteration.

•Determine the most suitable presentation method, visual elements, programmatic objects and multilingual strategy which meets the design objectives.

•Evaluate available data access and storage methods and determine the appropriate implementation for the application requirements.

•Identify the pros and cons of various data capture options and specify the most effective method or combination of methods for capturing user input.

•Evaluate the use and implementation of SharePoint artifacts and determine which artifacts best meet the needs of the application requirements.

•Design processing systems to get work done in the solution.

•Create an effective strategy for implementation and deployment of custom solutions in both development and production environments.

•Create a development strategy to allow multiple developers and administrators to work together.

•Devise a strategy for developing and deploying upgrades over time as the solution evolves.

•Develop an information architecture strategy that will support flexibility and growth and a navigation strategy that fits on top of this information architecture.

•Plan a comprehensive branding strategy and determine the necessary application elements required to support that strategy.

•Design and implement a security approach which supports both code access and end-user functionality.

•Design an effective strategy for optimizing page render times and data access methods within SharePoint 2010.

•Determine the appropriate use of unit and integration tests within SharePoint and design an effective strategy for insuring maximum code reliability.

This course requires students to meet the following prerequisites:

 

•Understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including the versioning of software and the management of configuration and content in a software system

•Basic knowledge of Web application architecture

•Experience in developing in a team environment

•Working knowledge of ASP.NET and Visual Studio

•Experience in SharePoint infrastructure including servers and services

•Experience in SharePoint development including the APIs and XML schemas necessary to create web parts, perform data access, and provision fields, lists, content types, etc.

Module 1: Advanced ASP.NET Concepts for SharePoint

 

•Server Memory

•Server CPU

•Transfer and Client

•Using Fiddler to Observe Page Loading

•Using Fiddler to Examine Page Size

•Reducing Page Size

•Capturing a Memory Profile

•Reviewing the Report

•Resolving Memory Issues and Retest

 

Module 2: Designing for User Experience

 

•SharePoint Background

•Page Parts

•Pages

•Globalization and Localization

•Designing for Accessibility

•Plant Summary Page

•Plant Configuration Page

•Employee List

•Line Status

•Line Dashboard

•Manager’s Dashboard

•Alert Notification

 

Module 3: Designing for Data

 

•List and Library Fundamentals

•Large Data Strategies

•SharePoint Data Management

•Creating List Views

•Indexing Key Columns

•Establishing an Invoice Content Type

•Creating a Solution for Storing Invoices

•Testing the Solution for Storing Invoices

 

Module 4: Designing Data Capture and Integration

 

•Designing for Data Capture

•Designing for Integration

•Connecting to the Data Source

•Defining the External Content Types

•Defining the External Lists

•Setting Security for the Content Types

•Defining an Association

•Deciding the kind of form to create

•Creating the Header fields

•Creating the Lines

•Publishing the Form to a SharePoint Library

 

Module 5: Designing Artefacts

 

•Customer Requirements

•Creating Sites

•Evaluating the Requirements

•Designing the Solution

•Evaluating the Requirements

•Designing the Solution

 

Module 6: Designing Processing Solutions

 

•Multi-Server Configurations

•In and Out of the Sandbox

•Getting Work Done

•Working with Workflows

•Evaluating Client Capabilities and Requirements

•Evaluating Sandbox Capabilities and Requirements

•Evaluating Farm Deployment Capabilities and Requirements

•Designing Data Access for Sensor Data

•Designing a Processing Solution for the Report

•Designing a Processing Solution for Approval

 

Module 7: Designing Packaging

 

•Understanding the Packaging Lifecycle

•Establish Design Principles

•Designing a Solution

•Create the Final Solution

•Creating a Common Assembly

•Creating a dependent Solution

 

Module 8: Designing a Development Strategy

 

•Developing for the Enterprise

•The Role of Logging

•Application Flexibility and Configuration

•List based configuration appraisal

•SharePoint List based configuration

•SharePoint List based logging

•Configure logging level

•Add Logging to SharePoint ULS

 

Module 9: Developing Versioning and Deployment

 

•Application Lifecycle

•Versioning Strategy

•Upgrading

•Defining Base Version

•Upgrading the Assembly

•Creating Upgrade Manage Page

•Adding Feature to Upgrade

•Upgrade Feature

 

Module 10: Designing Information Architecture and Navigation

 

•Designing an Information Architecture

•Planning for Software Boundaries

•Designing Content Navigation

•Card Sort

•Design Content Types and Site Columns

•Deploying a custom SiteMap

•Adding an ASP Menu to the Master Page

 

Module 11: Designing Branding and Customization

 

•Introduction to Branding

•Themes

•Master Pages

•Cascading Style Sheets

•Tools Overview

•Implementing SharePoint Branding

•Deploying a Custom Site Column and Content Type

•Using custom CSS

•Deploying a custom master page

•Deploying a Custom Site Column and Content Type

 

Module 12: Designing Security

 

•Security within SharePoint

•Using an Alternate Identity Store

•Forms-Based Authentication

•Deeper look at SharePoint Claims

•Setting Up the Authentication Provider

•Creating an FBA-Claims Site

•Optional Exercise: Viewing Claims for an FBA User

•Understanding the Scope and Relating it to Configuration

•Designing a Security Strategy

 

Module 13: Designing for Page and Data Access Performance

 

•Optimizing SharePoint Page Performance

•Analyzing Performance with the SharePoint Developer Dashboard

•Optimizing SharePoint Data Access Performance

•Using the SharePoint Server 2010 Developer Dashboard to Capture Performance Metrics

•Leveraging the SharePoint Server 2010 Search API for Large Data Queries

 

Module 14: Designing Testing Strategy

 

•Testing Concepts

•Unit, Integration, Regression Testing

•Performance Testing

•Unit Testing

•Performance Testing

•Load Testing