griffon solutions introduction to share point tools, tips, and tricks
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INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
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Agenda
Tools
SharePoint Designer
STSAdm
Extensions for Visual Studio
Powershell
Tips
Virtualization
Deploy using Features and Solutions
Tricks
Make a reference to 12 hive
Quick and Dirty Web Part design
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Tools – SharePoint Designer
Desktop application similar to FrontPage
Use it to modify look and feel of sites
Can cause problems with pages and sites – use it carefully
Data View Web Parts – useful for pulling information into SharePoint sites
Demo: Opening a site using SharePoint Designer
Demo: Modifying a Master Page using SD
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Tools – STS Admin
Command-line module for SharePoint Administration
Available on the Server from the 12 “Hive” (%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin)
Use it for backups and restores, feature enabling, managing scheduled jobs - pretty much anything!
Complete list of commands: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263384.aspx
Demo: Running stsadm from the command line
Demo: Exporting a site collection
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Tools – Office Extensions for Visual Studio
Visual Studio can be used to write SharePoint Web Parts, Site Definitions, and Workflows
WSS Extensions for Visual Studio adds these projects to VS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7BF65B28-06E2-4E87-9BAD-086E32185E68&displaylang=en
The projects even allow you to package the code as a SharePoint Feature or Solution and automatically deploy it
Contains SharePoint Solution Designer
Demo: Creating a new Web Part
Demo: Publishing a SharePoint Web Part
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Tips - Virtualization
Makes it easy to create SharePoint farms
Allows you to make snapshots and rollback
Virtualization is supported in Production
Most people use VMWare
Microsoft has a Virtual PC evaluation version of SharePoint (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&DisplayLang=en)
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Tips
Always use Features and Solutions to deploy code
CodePlex contains a lot of free SharePoint components
Before writing code, see what SharePoint already offers OOTB
Before writing code, check out 3rd party solutions
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Tricks
Make a reference to the 12 Hive
Quick and Dirty Web Parts
Use SharePoint Solution Generator to turn existing site into a Site Definition
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