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The Great SharePoint Adventure

Overview | Agenda

Class runs Monday from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM.
Class runs Tuesday - Thursday from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM.
Class runs Friday from 8:30 to 3:00 PM.

Lecture Schedule:

Day 1: Modules 1-4
Day 2: Modules 5-8
Day 3: Modules 9-12
Day 4: Modules 13-15
Day 5: Modules 16-18

Class Detailed Agenda

Module 1 - Roadmap to SharePoint 2007 Development

WSS as a site provisioning engine
Understanding Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites and Site Elements
Customization using the WSS collaboration templates
Site customization and personalization using Web parts
Overview of SharePoint Server 2007 components and services
Introduction to the WSS object model

Module 2 - Developing Features

The difference between customization and development
Features as the primary building block in WSS development
Introduction to Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML)
Creating and testing your first Feature with Visual Studio 2005
Adding event handlers to a custom feature

Module 3 - SharePoint Architecture

How WSS integrates with ASP.NET 2.0
Configuring the web.config file for a Web Application
Understanding site pages versus application pages
Creating and debugging a business solution with custom application pages
Creating and testing a WSS solution package for staging and deployment

Module 4 - Pages and Design

Understanding page parsing and Safe Mode restrictions
Page templates versus pages instances (ghosting and unghosting)
Creating a Feature with custom page templates
Designing page templates using ASP.NET controls and Web Part Zones
Adding Web Parts to pages using declarative CAML and using code

Module 5 - Master Pages and Site Branding

Understanding the standard default.master page template
Navigation providers, navigation menus and delegate controls
Creating and integrating a custom Master Page template
Creating a custom Feature to apply branding at the site collection level
Understanding and extending the CSS classes in core.css

Module 6 - Web Part Development

Creating, deploying and debugging ASP.NET Web Parts in WSS
Adding Web Part verbs, persistent properties and developing custom editor parts
Creating Web Part assemblies with embedded resources
Creating connectable Web Parts
Asynchronous Web Part processing
Creating a Feature and a solution package for best-practice Web Part deployment

Module 7 - AJAX Web Parts

Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX
Creating an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET Application
Creating the “Hello World” AJAX-enabled Web Part
Creating AJAX callbacks to custom .asmx Web Services
Creating AJAX callbacks that access the WSS object model

Module 8 - Lighting up SharePoint with Silverlight 2

Understanding Silverlight 2 and developing your first Silverlight Application
Configuring SharePoint to host ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2
Databinding with Silverlight
Accessing data and services across site domains

Module 9 - Lists and Content Types

Programming and querying lists through the WSS object model
Using Features to define site columns and custom field types
Using Features to define custom content types
Using Features to define custom list schemas and custom list types
Using custom event receiver classes to write and wire up event handlers
Defining a content type with built-in event handlers

Module 10 - Document Libraries

Programming with the SPDocumentLibrary class
Provisioning document libraries with custom document templates
Forms Libraries and Microsoft InfoPath integration
Programming with the Office Open File Formats
Server-side generation of Word 2007 documents (i.e. docx files)
Binding content controls to custom XML files embedded within Word documents

Module 11 - Creating and Testing Site Definitions

Understanding the role of WSS site definitions
The Global Site Definition
Creating and testing a custom site definition
Aggregating Features in a site definition
Defining Feature activation dependencies and leverage Feature stapling

Module 12 - 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 versus administrator deployment

Module 13 - Developing SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Primer
Creating WF programs in Visual Studio with the workflow designer
SharePoint Workflow fundamentals: templates vs. associations vs. instances
Creating, deploying and debugging workflow templates in Visual Studio
Using WSS method activities to create history list entries and tasks
Creating custom association forms, initiation forms and task edit forms

Module 14 - Extending Portal and Search in SharePoint Server

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

Module 15 - Web Content Management

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

Module 16 - 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

Module 17 - 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 and SQL Analysis Services

Module 18 - Application Security

Windows Authentication versus Forms-based Authentication (FBA)
WSS Identities and Security Contexts
Escalation of Privilege
Delegating User Credentials
Modifying permissions with the WSS object model

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