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SharePoint 2013 “App Model” Developing and Deploying Provider Hosted Apps

Sanjay PatelPrincipal ConsultantNeudesic

Sanjay.Patel@neudesic.com

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Agenda What are they(SharePoint apps)? Types of SharePoint Apps Definition: Host Web and App Web Creating High trust SharePoint Provider Hosted App Debugging - Provider Hosted App Packaging and Deployment of Provider Hosted App Demo Questions

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SharePoint Apps The “new coolness” of adding functionality to your SharePoint site

It is a new and preferred way of doing development going forward

Apps are essentially web applications which run “Outside” of SharePoint Host Web

It is a web application that is registered with SharePoint using an app manifest.

You can use any language, such as HTML, JavaScript, PHP, or .NET

Common IDEs are Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, and a new web-based tool, "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools

You can connect your app with just about any internal or public web services, take advantage of the new OAuth 2.0 support in SharePoint, and use the Representational State Transfer (REST) and client APIs (JavaScript and .NET) to integrate and connect your app with SharePoint.

Use Client Side Object Model (CSOM) to talk to SharePoint JavaScript (asynchronous) .NET (synchronous or asynchronous)

A lot more hassle then the old method, but it is the “new coolness”

Why Apps?

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Summary: Cloud Hosted vs. SharePoint Hosted

Cloud Hosted Apps SharePoint Hosted Apps

It is a preferred hosting model for almost all types of apps

It is good only for smaller apps & resource storage

It provides full power of web – choose your infrastructure & technology

It is SharePoint-based; no server-side code

This may require your own hosting It is automatically hosted in SharePoint

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Definition: Host Web and App/Remote Web

“Host” web – The website where the app is installed, The website from where the app is launched https://neudesic.sharepoint.com/clients/microsoft

“App” web – The “special” website where the app is deployed to In the same site collection as “host” web https://app.prefix-app.id.neudesic.sharepoint.com/clients/microsoft AKA http://app-bdf2016ea7dacb. neudesic.sharepoint.com/clients/microsoft

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Creating a High Trust Provider Hosted App Create a Site Collection using “Developer Site” template Create test certificate Generate an Issuer ID - A high-trust app uses a certificate instead of a

context token to establish trust Configure SharePoint 2013 for server -to-server app use and configure trust

for your app (Add the certificate to SharePoint’s list of trusted root certificate authorities)

Create a trusted security token service. Which fetches metadata from your app (for example, the certificate) and establishes trust with it, so that SharePoint 2013 can accept tokens that are issued by your app

Create a SharePoint Project using “App for SharePoint 2013” project template Configure App Permissions (e.g. Site Collection, BCS etc.) Add functionality into the App as per your requirement

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Debugging - Provider Hosted App Point project to the to the “Developer Site” site instance in project properties Hit F5 The application gets deployed to “Developer Site”– it becomes “Host” web The App gets deployed to “Remote” web When you are debugging the Remote Web will be deployed on IISExpress Communication between SharePoint and the Remote web on IISExpress will

happen using server-to-server protocol

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Packaging and Deployment of Provider Hosted App

Register your High-Trust app by obtaining an AppId and Secret (http://yoursite/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx)

Publish App – (Use AppId as ClientId) Generated Artifacts

<SharePointApp>.app(.zip file) AppIcon.png AppManifest.xml Elements and Feature file(s)

<SharePointApp>.Web.deploy.cmd <SharePointApp>.Web.deploy-readme.txt <SharePointApp>.Web.SetParameters.xml <SharePointApp>.Web.zip

Deploy Remote Web using Microsoft Web Deploy(msdeploy) Publish.app in App Catalog Install the App

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Demo

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Questions?

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Referenceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/office/apps/fp179930(v=office.15)

http://extreme-sharepoint.com/2013/03/22/remote-event-receivers-sharepoint-2013/

http://microsoftsharepointandbeyond.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint-2013-remote-event-receivers.html

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2013-Use-event-8b5a551f

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179887.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/office/apps/fp179897

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179925.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn275975.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179901.aspx

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Thank You!