Sustainable SharePoint 2010 Customizations By Bill Keys

Our Environment ● SharePoint 2010 Enterprise ● Threat Management Gateway ● Active Directory Integration ● Production and Test Environments ● Two SharePoint servers and one database server for each environment

Challenges ● SSO with Third-party Applications ● Supporting Multiple Computing Environments ● High Availability ● Preparing for Next Version

Safe Guards Quotas Recycle Bin Backups Max Upload – Protect our Database Custom User Permissions No page deleting rights, no applying css, create groups, etc. Test environment – TEST TEST TEST!

Custom Development

Web Parts ● Content Editor Web Part ● Custom HTML and JavaScript ● ● Hidden Web Part for customization to local CSS Demo ● Content Query Web Part ● SharePoint list and CQWP is a great match! Demo

InfoPath Form Before After

SharePoint Designer Advantages Deployment is fast Build for SharePoint Rapid development Disadvantages Server side code not supported Little software developers tools support Usages Add HTML, CSS, JavaScript or JQuery to a page Workflows

Server Side Code Can’t developed on client side? SSO Third Party Applications Trusted Keys Get user profile information Need code to send ?

Using ASP.NET Code Inline code not support by default Hello World ");%> Need to edit web.config to allow Application Pages Regular aspx pages Usually reside in sub folder in_ layouts Visual Studio comes to the rescue

Visual Studio ● For Developers ● Templates for SharePoint ● Packaging ● Deployment

VS Custom Development

Examples Daily Digest SharePoint Lists and Forms ASP.Net code to support sending eColleage SSO SharePoint User Profile Code

Source Control Now Supports Git!

Debugging SharePoint Developer Dashboard Firebug Fiddler – HTTP traffic debugger

SharePoint 2013 Prepare for migrating to SharePoint 2013 New App Model XSLT replaced with JavaScript- based CSR.Net 4.5 support New Web Parts for customizations Styling changes

2010 Solutions to 2013 Import package into Visual Studio 2012 Edit your.cspro Build, package, deploy

2010 SPServices JQuery to 2013 Core of SPServices works DOM has changed New CSS Keep your 2010 code clean and modular Post to community form

2013 Web Parts Content Editor Content Query Improved

Best Practices 1.Don’t code if you don’t need too. 2.Don’t manually make changes to config files 3.Document all customizations 4.Think future migrations

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