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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

Creating the SiteRequest form


The SiteRequest form will be used to log the site requests with the related configuration settings and approval status. As we need this form to be available globally we will use an application page, which is deployed via our feature and available throughout the farm. This will also enable us to show or hide fields as needed and include advanced business logic, which provides significantly more flexibility than standard SharePoint list forms.

To get started we will need to map a folder within the Layouts directory.

To map the folder and create the files:

  1. 1. Right-click on the project and select the Add node then select the SharePoint "Layouts" Mapped Folder option.

  2. 2. Rename the newly created folder to SPBlueprintsSiteCreation without the period.

  3. 3. Right-click on the folder and select the AddNewItem option.

  4. 4. From the SharePoint 2010 category, select the ApplicationPage option and provide the name RequestSite.aspx.

  5. 5. Click on the Add button as shown in the following...