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SUPERCHARGING YOUR SHAREPOINT 2010 SOLUTIONS

Brian Farnhill Elaine van BergenSolution Architect ArchitectExtelligent Design OBS

SESSION CODE: DEV-OFS312

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Who are Brian and ElaineBrian Farnhill► Solutions Architect,

Extelligent Design► SharePoint MVP► Collab Platform

vTSP► Canberra SP User

Group Organiser

Elaine Van Bergen► Architect, OBS► SharePoint MCM► SharePoint MVP► Collab Platform

vTSP► Melbourne SP User

Group Organiser

Session Agenda

► Introduction► Development tips and techniques

– Delegate Controls– Web Templates– Custom Service Application– Design Tips

► Review► Question and answer

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Introduction

Introduction

► Think big - Large scale applications need large scale planning and development

► Complex solutions need to have plans for how changes are managed in future

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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DELEGATE CONTROLSSupercharging your SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Delegate ControlsWhat are they?► Provide a framework for “place holders”► Additional controls are deployed and

managed through features► Allow for overriding of specific controls

without changing pages

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Delegate ControlsHow do they work?

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Feature 1

Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Delegate Control

Id: TechEdSequence: 100

Content/Config Database

SharePoint:DelegateControlControlId: TechEd

AllowMultiple: False

Delegate ControlsHow do they work?

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Feature 1

Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Delegate Control

Id: TechEdSequence: 100

Content/Config Database

Feature 2

Delegate Control

Id: TechEdSequence: 90

SharePoint:DelegateControlControlId: TechEd

AllowMultiple: False

Delegate ControlsHow do they work?

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Feature 1

Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Delegate Control

Id: TechEdSequence: 100

Content/Config Database

SharePoint:DelegateControlControlId: TechEd

AllowMultiple: True

Feature 2

Delegate Control

Id: TechEdSequence: 90

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USING DELEGATE CONTROLS

Demonstration

Delegate ControlsReview

► Allow designs to be templated effectively► Provide ability to control functionality

through the UI rather than through deployment changes

► Framework can be extended to support advanced use scenarios

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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WEB TEMPLATESSupercharging your SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Site Definitions

► No Supported way to modify once deployed

► Can’t be used in Office365 as farm wide► Sites created from site definition remain

linked to definition► Site scoped features not activated in web

creation► Feature stapling possible

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Web Template’s

► Template can be upgraded

► Can be used in Office365 as site level is possible

► No feature stapling possible

► Can’t use variations

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Feature versioning

► Version Range – BeginVersion/EndVersion

► Upgrade Elements– CustomUpgradeAction– ApplyElementManifest– MapFile – FromPath/ToPath– AddContentTypeField

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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CREATING EFFECTIVE WEB TEMPLATES

Demonstration

Web TemplatesReview► Web templates replace site definitions for

most situations

► Plan your web template plus feature structure and add property bag identifier

► Use feature upgrading or scripts to upgrade existing sites

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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CREATING CUSTOM SERVICE APPLICATIONS

Supercharging your SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Service ApplicationsArchitecture

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Client AppsBrowsers (IE, Firefox)

Office ClientOneNoteInfoPathProjectOutlook

RSS ViewersSharePoint Workspace

SharePoint DesignerVisio

Access

SharePoint Foundation

Config Content Workflow

Sandboxed Code Service Usage & Health Logging

Project Server 2010

Fast 2010

Project Web Access

FAST Search Service

Office Web App Services

3rd party services

SharePoint Service ApplicationsSearch Service

Excel Calc Service

User Profiles

Business Connectivity Service

InfoPath Services

Word Conversion Service

PowerPoint Broadcast Service

Web Analytics Service

Visio Graphics Service

Access Services

Managed Metadata

PerformancePoint

SharePoint Server

Service ApplicationsBenefits of using a service app► Scalability– Add instances to servers to increase scale– Internal round robin to select server when

called► Share and consume data– Publish service applications between farms

► Performance and stability– Much better suited for long running activities

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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Web Front EndApplication Server

Service ApplicationsService Object Model

SPFarm

SPServer SPService

SPServiceInstance

SPServiceApplication

SPServiceProxy

SPServiceApplicationProxy

Service ApplicationsHow to build a service app

1. Create a service application2. Create a WCF service application endpoint3. Write the service application installation code4. Install and provision the service application5. Create the service application proxy6. Write the service application proxy installation code7. Install and provision the service application proxy8. Create the service application consumers9. Install, deploy, and test the service application consumers

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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BUILDING A SERVICE APPLICATION

Demonstration

Service ApplicationsReview► Know when to build and when to use

alternatives► Understand the framework when building

custom service applications

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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DESIGN TIPS AND TRICKSSupercharging your SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Large Solution Tips

► Divide into separate wsp’s but don’t go overboard

► Think structure, naming and consistency► Avoid cross dependencies and shared

resources► Good architecture is possible even with

SharePoint involved

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Deployment

► Automate as much as possible !► PowerShell is one good option► Farm feature plus timer job for no-touch

option► High automation = Less documentation

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Caching Configuration

► Output – Generated HTML for future requests

► Object – Common objects and query results

► BLOB – Commonly requested files put on WFE disk

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Caching via code

► Consider if object is thread safe

► SPWEB is not therefore any item with embedded web like SPSListItemCollection can cause issues

► Lock and cache safe object such as datatable

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Querying techniques

► Search Object model solid performed but delayed data

► PortalSitemapProvider if data is low and relatively static

► SPQuery + ContentIterator

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Throttling

• List Throttling• Row and Column Throttling• Http Request• Unique Permissions• You can add your own

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

List throttling

• Any operation that impacts x amount of items is throttled

• Default is 5000 items, beware of table locks if you change

• Overrides for auditors and administrators only in OM

• Machine admin overrides all throttle limits• Happy hour(s)

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

Final Review

► Delegate Controls► Web Templates► Custom Service Application► Design Tips

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Introduction Delegate Controls

Web Templates

Custom Service App Design Tips Review Q&A

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