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Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications

The Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications training course is available at our Cardiff training centre in Wales, which is also within easy reach of Newport, Bristol and South WalesMicrosoft Certified Gold Partner for Learning Solutions

Overview

 

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 thi course, students learn the skills and the best practices that are required to help organisations design and develop effective SharePoint applications.

 

Prerequisites

 

This course requires students to meet the following prerequisites:

 

  • Understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including the versioning of software and the management of configuration in a software system.
  • Basic knowledge of Web application architecture
  • Experience in developing in a team environment
  • Working knowledge of ASP.NET and Visual Studio
  • Experience in SharePoint infrastructure including servers services
  • Experience in SharePoint development including the APIs and XML schemas necessary to create web parts, perform data access, and provision fields, lists, content types, etc.

 

Course Outlines

 

Module 1: ASP.NET Advanced Concepts for SharePoint

 

This module helps you to review the essential information regarding ASP.NET including how to improve performance for high-scale sites like SharePoint. This module covers concepts around ViewState, caching, and session state and provides an opportunity to learn to make appropriate choices.

 

Lessons

  • Server Memory
  • Server CPU
  • Transfer and Client

 

Module 2: Designing for User Experience

 

This module provides key criteria and structure necessary to make appropriate decisions about what kind of user interface component to use based on the needs of the solution.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 3: Designing for Data

 

This modules explains defining what storage will look like. This module discusses the information about design critial to the performance and accessibility of the solution. The module also covers scalability issues to data as well as the structural components such as the use of lists, list definitions, content types, and fields.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 4: Designing Data Capture and Integration

 

This module discusses strategies on how to get the data into the system. This module covers the techniques for capturing data - including office integration to other systems with BCS.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 5: Designing Artifacts

 

This module discusses items that will need to be implemented in SharePoint to tie the user interface and the data structure together. The module covers information about artifacts to begin the transformation of the abstract design into a specific of deliverables that need to be created through SharePoint.

 

Lessons

  • Customer Requirements
  • Creating Sites

 

Module 6: Designing Processing Solutions

 

This module covers the details of options for developing solutions. The module provides decision criteria for the determination of sandbox versus full trust (or a hybrid of the two) deployments. The module also provides for making decisions about processing including how to address long running operations and how to decide the appropriate processing solutions.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 7: Designing Packaging

 

This module addresses the first order problem of factoring the solution into features and packages so that it can be upgraded. The module covers the baseline skills of determining the number, scope, and dependency of features and determining the right number of packages.

 

Lessons

  • Understanding Packaging Life Cycle
  • Establishing Design Principles

 

Module 8: Designing a Development Strategy

 

This module focuses on two key items necessary to deploy larger solutions, configuration and logging. This module provides the student a platform to expand the scope of the solution and focus on issues related to dozens of projects on a server, each with its own approach to configuration and logging.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 9: Developing Version and Deployment

 

This module delves into the challenges of versioning in a SharePoint environment. The module also addresses deployment issues becuase most deployment issues are related to the versioning process.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 10: Designing Information Architecture and Navigation

 

This module helps to draw the distinction betweeen information architecture and branding topics. The module helps to separate taxonomy (oraganization) from navigation (user interface).

 

Lessons

  • Understanding Information Architecture
  • Planning for Software Boundaries
  • Navigation

 

Module 11: Designing Branding and Customization Support

 

This module covers branding options, including what tools can be used to customize the appearance. The module moves us to including the users and power users of the ultimate solution.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 12: Designing Security

 

This module describes how to design security for performance and provide a holistic view so to evaluate security implications and tradeoffs. This module also outlines the new Claims-Based authentication in SharePoint 2010 and how Forms-Based Authentication fits into this model.

 

Lessons

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

 

Module 13: Designing for Page and Data Access Performance

 

This module discusses page and data access performance and how to plan for a high performance site.

 

Lessons

  • Optimizing SharePoint Performance
  • Analyzing Performance with the SharePoint Developer Dashboard
  • Optimizing SharePoint Claims implementatios.

 

Module 14: Designing a Testing Strategy

 

This module discusses what we do at the end of the development process, testing. The module also covers functional test and scale/performance testing.

 

Lessons

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