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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook

By : Balaji Kithiganahalli
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook

By: Balaji Kithiganahalli

Overview of this book

Microsoft SharePoint 2010, is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With the combined capabilities of Sharepoint and Visual Studio, developers have an end-to-end business solutions development IDE. To leverage this powerful combination of tools it is necessary to understand the different building blocks. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook With Visual Studio 2010 is an instructional guide for developing and debugging applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you, you can also read it from cover to cover if you want to get hands on with the complete application development cycle.With this book you will learn to develop event handlers, workflows, content types, web parts, client object model applications, and web services for SharePoint 2010 in an instructional manner. You will discover the less known facts behind debugging feature receivers, deployment of web parts, utilizing free toolkits to enhance the development and debugging experience. You will learn the newer development approach called Visual Web Parts, how to develop and deploy Silverlight applications that can be used with Silverlight web part. You will also explore SandBoxed deployment model and its usage. You will create your own web services for SharePoint and the Client Object Model introduced in SharePoint 2010. All in all, you will develop Sharepoint solutions in an instructional manner that eases the learning process.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook
Balaji Kithiganahalli
Sep, 2011 | 296 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010: Expert Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010: Expert Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Lists and Event Receivers
Lists and Event Receivers
Introduction
Validating data when an item is added to a list
Adding a custom error message to the Event Receiver
Adding an Application Page to an Event Receiver
Working with List Event Receiver
Deploying Event Receivers
Creating a Feature Receiver
Debugging a Feature Receiver
Debugging Feature Installed Events
2
Workflows
Workflows
Introduction
Creating a sequential workflow
Creating a site workflow with an initiation form
Deploying an InfoPath form with the workflow
Creating a task from the workflow
Creating a custom task form
3
Advanced Workflows
Advanced Workflows
Introduction
Creating a custom activity
Creating a custom activity for a sandboxed solution
Creating a state machine workflow
Adding a custom workflow status
Creating a pluggable workflow service
4
List Definitions and Content Types
List Definitions and Content Types
Introduction
Creating a site column
Extending an existing content type
Creating custom content type using an object model
Associating a document template with the content type
Associating a workflow to a content type
Creating an external content type
Creating a list definition
5
Web Parts
Web Parts
Introduction
Creating a visual web part
Creating a code-only web part (sandboxed solution)
Creating AJAX enabled web parts
Adding configuration properties to web parts
Creating connectable web parts
Creating a Silverlight web part
6
Web Services and REST
Web Services and REST
Introduction
Getting data through REST
Filtering list data
Fiddling with Fiddler
Creating a REST consumer
Inserting new contacts through REST
Creating a custom SharePoint WCF service
7
Working with Client Object Model
Working with Client Object Model
Introduction
Creating a list using a Managed OM
Handling exceptions
Calling Object Model asynchronously
Using JavaScript Object Model
Using a Silverlight Object Model
Index
Index

Debugging a Feature Receiver

Debugging a Feature Receiver is a different process. It is not like debugging the List Item Event Receivers. As described in the previous recipe, Visual Studio does lots of work behind the scenes and so we are unable to hit the break points.

Apart from that, debugging Feature Receivers are dependent on events that we are trying to debug. In this recipe, we will follow through the process of debugging FeatureActivated and FeatureDeactivating events.

Getting ready

You should have successfully completed the Creating a Feature Receiver recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Launch Visual Studio as an administrator and open the solution that was created in the previous recipe.

  2. In the solution explorer, select the project and press F4 to bring open the project properties window.

  3. Set the Active Deployment Configuration to No Activation as shown here:

  4. Put break points on both FeatureActivated and Fea ture Deactivating methods and run the project.

  5. This will bring up the site in the default browser. Navigate to Site Actions | Site Settings | Site Actions | Manage site features. This should bring up the page as shown in the following screenshot and you should be able to see your Feature installed, but not activated.

  6. Clicking the Activate button should invoke the debugger now.

  7. Similarly, clicking the Deactivate button should invoke the debugger to hit the break point on the FeatureDeactivating method.

How it works...

By default Visual Studio sets up for Activation of the features. This makes sense as all the different SharePoint projects make use of Features and for test purposes it is very necessary to activate it and execute the solution. So every time a developer creates a SharePoint project, they do not need to remember to set this flag.

This does create a problem for Feature Receivers though. Hence we set the flag to No Activation and there by Visual Studio just installs the solution without activating it.

There's more...

That's right, now we know how to debug Feature Receivers events like Feature Activated and Feature Deactivating. Is there a similar flag that we can set in Visual Studio to Debug Feature Installed and Feature Uninstalled? No, there are no flags that you can set to make debugger stop on the break points on Feature Installed and the Feature Uninstalling methods.

See also

  • Creating a Feature Receiver recipe

  • Debugging Feature Installed Events recipe

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