Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications - 10232A

5 Days

Course Description:

This five-day instructor-led course is intended for Microsoft SharePoint Development professionals who are responsible for leading projects, designing solutions, and identifying problems. In this course, students learn the skills and best practices that are required to help organizations design and develop effective SharePoint applications.

Course Objective:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Develop strategies for caching, session state, as well as design for high performance sites by limiting page size and iteration.
• Determine the most suitable presentation method, visual elements, programmatic objects and multilingual strategy which meets the design objectives.
• Evaluate available data access and storage methods and determine the appropriate implementation for the application requirements.
• Identify the pros and cons of various data capture options and specify the most effective method or combination of methods for capturing user input.
• Evaluate the use and implementation of SharePoint artifacts and determine which artifacts best meet the needs of the application requirements.
• Design processing systems to get work done in the solution.
• Create an effective strategy for implementation and deployment of custom solutions in both development and production environments.
• Create a development strategy to allow multiple developers and administrators to work together.
• Devise a strategy for developing and deploying upgrades over time as the solution evolves.
• Develop an information architecture strategy that will support flexibility and growth and a navigation strategy that fits on top of this information architecture.
• Plan a comprehensive branding strategy and determine the necessary application elements required to support that strategy.
• Design and implement a security approach which supports both code access and end-user functionality.
• Design an effective strategy for optimizing page render times and data access methods within SharePoint 2010.
• Determine the appropriate use of unit and integration tests within SharePoint and design an effective strategy for ensuring maximum code reliability.

Prerequisites

This course is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for designing custom code for projects that are deployed to SharePoint 2010 servers. To be successful in this course, the student will have at least two years of SharePoint development experience and should have experience with ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Course Content:

Module 1: ASP.NET Advanced Concepts for SharePoint

• Server Memory
• Server CPU
• Transfer and Client

Lab 1a

• Using Fiddler to Observe Page Loading
• Using Fiddler to Examine Page Size
• Reducing Page Size

Lab 1b

• Starting a Performance Capture
• Reviewing the Report
• Resolving Memory Issues and Retest

Module 2: Designing for User Experience

• SharePoint Background
• Page Parts
• Pages
• Globalization and Localization
• Designing for Accessibility

Lab 2a

• Line Dashboard
• Manager?s Dashboard
• Alert Notification

Lab 2b

• Plant Summary Page
• Plant Configuration Page
• Employee List
• Line Status

Module 3: Designing for Data

• List and Library Fundamentals
• Large Data Strategies
• SharePoint Data Management

Lab 3a

• Creating List Views
• Adding Indexes

Lab 3b

• Creating an Invoice Content Type
• Enabling Content Organization
• Testing Content Organization

Module 4: Designing Data Capture and Integration

• Key Considerations for Data Capture
• Designing for Data Capture
• Designing for Integration

Lab 4a

• Connecting to the Data Source
• Defining the External Content Types
• Defining the External Lists
• Setting Security for the Content Types
• Defining an Association

Lab 4b

• Creating the Calculations
• Publishing the Form to a SharePoint Library

Module 5: Designing Artifacts

• Customer Requirements
• Creating Sites

Lab 5a

• Evaluating the Requirements
• Designing the Solution

Lab 5b

• Evaluating the Requirements
• Designing the Solution

Module 6: Designing Processing Solutions

• Multiserver Configurations
• In and Out of the Sandbox
• Getting Work Done
• Working with Workflows

Lab 6a

• Evaluating Client Capabilities and Requirements
• Evaluating Sandbox Capabilities and Requirements
• Evaluating Farm Deployment Capabilities and Requirements

Lab 6b

• Designing Data Access for Sensor Data
• Designing a Processing Solution for the Report
• Designing a Processing Solution for the Approval

Module 7: Designing Packaging

• Understanding Packaging Life Cycle
• Establishing Design Principles

Lab 7a

• Designing a Solution
• Create the Final Solution

Lab 7b

• Creating a Common Assembly
• Creating a Dependent Solution

Module 8: Designing a Development Strategy

• Developing for the Enterprise
• The Role of Logging
• The Benefits of Application Configuration

Lab 8a

• Appraising the List-Based Configuration
• Using a SharePoint List-Based Configuration
• Using SharePoint List-Based Logging
• Configuring the Logging Level

Lab 8b

• Adding Logging to SharePoint ULS

Module 9: Developing Version and Deployment

• Application Life Cycle Management
• Source Control and Build
• Versioning Strategy
• Upgrading
• Deployment

Lab 9a

• Defining Base Version
• Upgrading the Assembly

Lab 9b

• Creating Upgrade Manage Page
• Adding Feature to Upgrade
• Upgrading Feature

Module 10: Designing Information Architecture and Navigation

• Understanding Information Architecture
• Planning for Software Boundaries
• Navigation

Lab 10a

• Using Card Sort
• Designing Content Types and Site Columns

Lab 10b

• Deploying a Custom SiteMap
• Adding an ASPmenu to a Custom Master Page

Module 11: Designing Branding and Customization Support

• Introduction to Branding
• Branding Options
• Branding Decisions
• Managing User Experience
• Planning for Customization

Lab 11a

• Importing .wsp Files Into Microsoft Visual Studio
• Extracting the File Resources
• Writing the Feature Receiver to Apply Changes
• Testing the Changes

Lab 11b

• Observing Current Performance
• Turning on BLOB Caching
• Observing BLOB Cached Performance
• Observing _layouts Performance

Module 12: Designing Security

• Security Within SharePoint
• Using an Alternate Identity Store
• Forms-Based Authentication
• Deeper Look at SharePoint Claims

Lab 12a

• Setting Up the Authentication Provider
• Creating an FBA-Claims Site
• Optional Exercise: Viewing Claims for an FBA User

Lab 12b

• Understanding the Scope and Relating it to Configuration
• Designing a Security Strategy

Module 13: Designing for Page and Data Access Performance

• Optimizing SharePoint Page Performance
• Analyzing Performance with the SharePoint Developer Dashboard
• Optimizing SharePoint Data Access Performance

Lab 13

• Using the SharePoint Server 2010 Developer Dashboard to Capture Performance Metrics
• Leveraging the SharePoint Server 2010 Search API for Large Data Queries

Module 14: Designing a Testing Strategy

• Testing Concepts
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Performance Testing

Lab 14

• Conducting Unit Testing
• Conducting Performance Testing
• Conducting Load Testing

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