share point best practices

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SharePoint Best Practices ReadiDepth

Jeremy ThakeSenior Consultant, Readify

Agenda

• Painting a picture• Team development• Deployment• Tools• Celebrity Deathmatch

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DEV

Development

PRODUCTIONUATINTEGRATION

Content and artifacts

– Artifacts• Master Pages, Page Layouts, Style Sheets, Images, Web Parts,

Content Types, List Templates, Event Receivers, Workflows, InfoPath Forms, Site Columns, Custom Fields

– Content• List Item Instances

– Pages, Documents, Tasks• Site Instances

– Team Sites, Document Workspaces

Synchronising Environments

• Hard to do two way syncs• Storage

– 12 Hive– Content Databases– Web Application Web.Configs– Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites, Lists object properties– Assemblies (GAC, Web Application bin directories)– Components

• ASP.NET 3.5

More than one way to skin a cat

• Web User Interface• SharePoint Designer• Custom scripts• Solution Development

TEAM DEVELOPMENTSharePoint Best Practices - ReadiDepth

Environments

• Need SharePoint running on development environment• Visual Studio 2008 / SQL 2005

Source Control

• Team Foundation Server– Shared Check outs– Labelling– Branching

Code Analysis

• Disposing of SPWeb• Iterating through object collections

Code Manageability

• Structure

Visual Studio Team Edition Load Testing Tools

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Automated Build Scripts

• Powershell

Continuous Integration

Traps Avoid

• Moving artifacts and content to environments using:– Backup/Restore– SharePoint Designer Export/Import

TOOLSSharePoint Development Best Practices - ReadiDepth

Content Deployment Wizard

• http://www.codeplex.com/SPDeploymentWizard

DEMONSTRATIONContent Deployment Wizard to move content into Dev Environment

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STSDEV

DEMONSTRATIONSTSDEV to create workflow with InfoPath integration

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WSPBuilder

DEMONSTRATIONWSPBuilder to create Web Part Solution

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SP Deploy

• http://code.google.com/p/rapid-tools/

DEMONSTRATIONSP Deploy to create Site Structure

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SharePoint Inspector

DEMONSTRATIONSharePoint Inspector for debugging

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VSeWSS – Solution Generator

DEMONSTRATIONSolution Generator to create SharePoint List Template Solution

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CELEBRITY DEATHMATCHSharePoint Development Best Practices - ReadiDepth

SharePoint Designer vs Visual Studio Workflows

SharePoint Lists vs SQL Database Tables

InfoPath Forms vs ASP.NET Forms

Site Features vs Site Templates

Web.Config vs SharePoint Lists vs Web Service Configuration Management

• Web.config• SharePoint List• Web Service / Database

SUMMARYSharePoint Development Best Practices - ReadiDepth

Points to take away

• Nothing gets into an environment without a Solution WSP Package

• All artifacts are stored in source control• Choose your weapons wisely

For more information

• Jeremy Thake’s blog– http://wss.made4the.net/

• Jeremy Thake’s Diigo Social bookmarks– http://www.diigo.com/user/jthake/

• Perth SharePoint User Group– Richard Greene – Implementing BDC– Tommy Segoro – Comparing Development Tools– Clinton Cherry – Semantic Search Add-on

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A Readify Developer Network sessionBy Jeremy Thake, Senior Consultant, Readify

Email Address: jeremy.thake@readify.netRDN Website: www.readify.net/rdn