getting started with microsoft office 365 share point online development

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Getting Started with Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online

DevelopmentJeremy Thake

Chief Architect

Level: Intermediate

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Speaker

Jeremy Thake

Author

AvePoint Labs

Chief Architect

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Agenda

• Application Development Platform• Getting Started • Sandboxed Solutions• App Model• Migrating Apps

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Application Development Platform

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Building Blocks

• Authentication & Authorization• Customization & Personalization• Branding• Disaster recovery• Availability• Site collections & Sub sites

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No more…

• installing SQL• configuring IIS• deploying components to server• writing service level agreements• writing disaster recovery plans

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List Building Blocks

• Attachments• Metadata• Versioning• Views• Full API: Web services, REST, RSS…• Security• Event Receivers• Workflow• Publishing

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What to worry about

• UI pattern consistency• Don’t bend it the wrong way

– If you question whether its right, it probably isn’t

• Performance considerations• Monitoring

– Resource Usage– No ULS logs, Event Viewer

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Getting Started

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Approaches

Web UI

• Web parts on pages• Site / List Settings

SharePoi

nt Designer

• Branding• Business Connectivity Services

NAPA

• Visual Studio “Lite”

Visual

Studio

2010

• Not a web browser!• Debugging

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Don’t work directly on Production

• Develop in Development environments!!!• Great for version 1.0, not so great for 1.1

whilst live users in environment– 24 hour SLA on recovering a site collection

• SharePoint Designer encourages this

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Development Environment

• Must have Visual Studio where SharePoint installed for server side development

• Use a “development” site collection in your Office 365 SharePoint 2010 Online environment– Client Object Model

• Install SharePoint 2010 locally on Windows 7

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Use a virtual machine

• VMWare Workstation/Sun VirtualBox on Windows 7

• HyperV on dual boot Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7

• HyperV on Windows 8 RC• Steal some of IT private cloud to run

one ;-)• Azure, CloudShare, fpWeb, Rackspace

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Visual Studio 2012

• Create Silverlight Web Parts• Publish SharePoint Solutions to Remote

SharePoint Servers• Test SharePoint Performance by Using

Profiling Tools• Create Sandboxed Visual Web Parts• Support for JavaScript Debugging and

IntelliSense for JavaScript

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee290856(VS.110).aspx

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Development Machine

Cloud-hosted Apps dev environment

SharePoint 2013 Azure Development env

Web application

Visual Studio 2012

SQL 2012

IIS Web Server

Site Collection

Root Site

App 1 App 2 App 3

App 2Web Sites

App 2SQL

App 3Web

App 3Windows Service

App 3SQL

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SharePoint2007

SharePoint2010

SharePoint 2013

Services (IIS, Apache, …)

Services (Azure, IIS, Apache, …)

Services(Azure, IIS, Apache, …)

SP2007 SP2010 SP2013

Declarative Applications & Workflow Events

Custom Code

Custom Code

CSOM

_vti_bin_vti_bin

_api

_api

Evolution of customizations in SharePoint

CSOM

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Sandboxed solutions

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Sandboxed Solutions

• Restricted API due to multi-tenant environment

• No LOB: Web Services, ATOM, ODBC• No file access• Current site collection scope only• No Page object (JavaScript reg)• Deployed via Site Collection Site Settings

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg615454.aspx

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*smile*

• Office 365 customizations• Faster deploys

– Doesn’t require IISRESET as assemblies not in GAC

• No Farm access required

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WARNING

• No “Full trust proxies” in Office 365• Only Site Collection Admins can activate if

managed code in packages• Site Collection Admins can deploy these!• Can use Silverlight to overcome some

restrictions

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TIPS

• Use Sandbox Solutions (default) as can’t use Full-Trust Solutions in SharePoint 2010 Online

• Won’t get compile time warnings on incorrect API usage, only on upload to SharePoint– Use the FxCop rules http

://o365fxcoprules.codeplex.com/

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Web Part example

• displayed data from a list• perform a SharePoint database query• 20 database queries = 1 resource point• displayed 20 times• site collection would have used 1

resource point of 300 points available• could be displayed 6,000 times in a 24

hour period

the sandbox is turned off until daily

reset

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App Model

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App Model scenarios

SharePoint

SharePoint Azure

Web application

IIS Web Server

Site CollectionRoot Site

App 1SP

Hosted

App 2Auto

Hosted

App 3Provider Hosted

App 2Website

s

App 2SQL

App 3Web

Sub Site

App 3Provider Hosted

App 3SQL

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App Versioning

SharePoint

SharePoint Azure

Web application

IIS Web Server

Site CollectionRoot Site

App 1V1.0

App 2V1.0

App 3V1.0

App 2Website

sV1.0

App 2SQLV1.0

App 3WebV1.0

Sub Site

App 3V1.0

App 2Website

sV1.1

App 2SQLV1.1

App 2Website

sV2.0

App 2SQLV2.0

App 3V1.1

App 3WebV1.1

App 3SQL

App 3SQLV1.1

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• Information from SharePoint

• Interaction with SharePoint

Application IFRAME

APPLICATION

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OAuth Authentication

SharePoint

SharePoint Azure

Web application

IIS Web Server

Site CollectionRoot Site

App 1 App 2 App 3

App 2Website

s

App 2SQL

App 3Web

Site CollectionRoot Site

App 3

App 3SQL

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Deployment

Model Office 365 Permissions On-Prem Permissions

SharePoint

Sandbox YES YES

Full Trust NO YES

SharePoint Hosted YES OAuth via ACS YES High-Trust (S2S)

Remote

Provider Hosted• Developer

hosts app• Could be in

Azure

YES OAuth via ACS YES High-Trust (S2S)

Auto-Hosted• App can deploy

website and SQL Azure db

• Hosted in Office 365 Azure Cloud

YES OAuth via ACS NO

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Compare customization models

Full trust WSP Sandboxed WSP Apps

Where does server-side code run?

Farm (w3wp.exe)Farm (User Code

Service)Anywhere but farm

Scalable Based on farm Limited Highly

Who installs and removes Farm admin Site collection admin Users

Supported in SP2013 Yes Yes Yes

SharePoint Online compatible No Yes Yes

Auto-hosting compatible No No Yes

Requires local farm for developers

Yes Yes No

Remote deployment and debugging from Visual Studio

No No Yes

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Migrating Apps

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Web UI

• Side by side windows– Site Settings– List Settings– Page content

• Windows Explorer– Document Content

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SharePoint Designer

• Side by side across windows– Business Connectivity Services– Web Parts– Content Types

• Copy & Paste across windows– Master Pages– Page Layouts– Workflows (no custom activities)

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Sandboxed Solutions

• Will work in SharePoint 2010 Online just like Standard or Enterprise

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Full-Trust Solutions

• APIs used• Switch to “Sandboxed” and just try it• Run FxCop against it• Change assembly target for Visual Studio

2010

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Custom crap!

• Remember, no access to servers AT ALL• So everything must be in Solution

Package• No manual deployment of files to file

server• We’ve been teaching you this since ‘06

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3rd Party Tools

• Graphical User Interface to move Site Collection artifacts and content

• Lots of players– AvePoint– Axceler– MetaVis– MetaLogix

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References

• Sandboxed Solutions• App Model

• Office 365 Developer Hub• NothingButSharePoint.com• Critical Path setup guide

– Configure apps in your dev environment

• SharePoint 2013 Developer site sign up

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Q&AJeremy Thakewww.NothingButSharePoint.com

THU 09:15

Acing Application Lifecycle Management

jeremy.thake@avepoint.com

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