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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Summary


This chapter leveraged both the Server and Client OMs along with some community based libraries to create a packaged solution that can provide a Project Management rollup site.

The customizations are grouped as follows:

  • Visual Studio 2010:

    • Web Part: Used to display both the main project metrics as well as provide a way to view the detailed project status

    • Timer job: Used to update the metrics on a scheduled basis

    • Feature receiver: Used to register and unregister the timer job

  • Browser based configuration:

    • Configure People Core Results Web Part: Configured to pull the listing of project managers along with custom XSL to enhance the format of the results

This chapter showed how you can:

  • Aggregate content across site collections using both the search subsystem as well as the regular list APIs to query content

  • Mix both the server and client code within the same solution in order to build a highly functional and efficient solution, which is critical when pulling content from potentially hundreds...