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SharePoint 2013 App

What is App?• Apps for SharePoint are easy-to-use, lightweight web applications.• An app for SharePoint is a stand-alone, self-contained piece of

functionality that extends the features and capabilities of a SharePoint site.

• App model is mainly designed for cloud hosting. It will not use server side code. It will use only client script like java script or jQuery, and will work on top of share point framework.

Why App Model?

App Isolation

Why to build App?• Familiar Programming Model• Flexible Life Cycle• Access SharePoint data and services• Flexible Architecture

Map SharePoint Component to App

• Web part• Event and feature receiver• Api• Solution and package deployment• External content type• Application page/Site Page

What we can do with App?• Custom list, content type, list template , workflow• Deploy new fields based on existing field types• We can have custom application pages to work• Can consume custom web services.• Custom web part(App part),Silverlight web part• http://zoom.it/s5Us#full

What we can’t do with App?• Custom Site Definitions• Delegate Controls• Custom Themes, Branding• Custom Action groups and Custom Hidings• Custom User Controls• Timer Jobs• Custom field type

Type of App• Two Types of app• SharePoint Hosted App• Cloud Hosted App• Mobile App• Office App• Task pane app, content app, mail app

Task pane App

Content Apps

Design your App• Choose right hosting model for app• Choose right data access technology for app• Choose UX design for app• Design with update in mind• Develop app• Publish app

SharePoint Hosted Apps

Sharepoint Hosted App• Hosted on sharepoint farm(on-premises or office 365)• Installed on a SharePoint 2013 website, called the host web, and

that have their resources hosted on an isolated sub site of a host web, called the app web.

• Any SharePoint-Hosted App will try to create a Subweb which will be executed in a separate AppDomain apart from SharePoint Farm(DNS settings).

• SharePoint Server-Side Code in Apps is not allowed. SharepointHosed - JavaScript (with the SharePoint 2013 JSOM library) + HTML

• Work with and provision new SharePoint entities exclusively. Ex-An app that includes a people picker control and that stores information about SharePoint users in a SharePoint list.

• Full page experience and App-part• App scope• Site scope - App is installed and launched within the same scope of

the SharePoint site.• Tenancy scope - App catalog, Users from different sites can choose

to connect and consume this App.• Hosting option – App catalog and Office store• App catalog

• Office store – seller dashboard account ,upload app(.app file , personal info ,company info , privacy statement , other issues , free or paid)

• App with SharePoint list and with app list.

Cloud Hosted Apps1.Provider Hosted App

2.Auto Hosted app

Cloud Hosted App• Cloud-hosted apps are apps that are hosted remotely from

SharePoint and can contains some sort of server-side logic. • Hosted outside SharePoint farm.• These apps can be hosted on any platform like Microsoft

Azure, Internet Information Services (IIS), or even a PHP server running on Linux.

• This approach offers the flexibility to choose hosting and technology options. The use of cloud-hosted apps may require management of hosting, app permissions, and multitenancy.

Provider Hosted App• It can be used in both on-premises or cloud environment• Provider-hosted apps are deployed and hosted outside

SharePoint farm.• Host the app on Microsoft Azure or any remote web platform,

including non-Microsoft platforms.• Run on the cloud [SharePoint online] or on the own server [on-

premises] depends on where you hosted them.• Gain authorization to SharePoint data either by OAuth or

JavaScript cross-domain library.

Publish Provider Hosted app on Windows Azure• Client Id and Client Secret is required for publish app• To generate client Id and secret, we can generate this using

specific site url /_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx

Auto Hosted App• Auto hosted apps are currently available only on Office 365. • Deployed fully to cloud.• You do not need to provide a packaging, installation, and

configuration system. Configuring is done automatically.• Office store not support to host this type of app.

Comparison of hosting options for apps for SharePoint

SharePoint-hosted Cloud (provider-hosted or autohosted)

App scope SharePoint site Site or tenancyArchitecture Website Multitenant app

Developer skill set SharePoint + HTML or JavaScript Full stack

User interface technologies

SharePoint + HTML or JavaScript Any web stack

Server code None Any (none on SharePoint)

Storage Lists and document libraries Any

Key limitations No server code Hosting expertise required

App based on business scenarioSharePoint Hosted Provider Hosted

Individual or team productivity app Large, robust internet/enterprise-scale application

Reuse common SharePoint artifacts Can be use for server side code

Automatic hosting in SharePoint Work with any existing web/on-premises servers

Runs anywhere – on-premises or cloud

Runs anywhere – on-premises or cloud

Uses full power of Azure

About the SharePoint and Provider AppSharePoint Hosted Provider Hosted

Host SharePoint 2013 any host (Microsoft/non-microsoft)

Deployment of Components

All components deployed to SharePoint

Wrapper deployed to SharePoint manually deployment of components to host

Code/logic Only client-side code Server and client-side code, any language or script

Data Storage Lists, fields, and content types

sql, mysql, oracle, csv, SQLite,etc.

Authentication & authorization

Automatic Developers responsibility: Oauth/cross-domain library

App Permissions Inherent Developers responsibility

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