| Community Kit for SharePoint (RC1 Launch) ((User Group Edition))
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| Features have greatly changed how you create and deploy SharePoint solutions. Common scenarios for feature deployment include Web Parts and workflows, but they offer much more power than that. Site templates can contain features that are automatically run when a user creates the site. Feature stapling allows multiple features to be chained together. Probably the most powerful scenario is the ability to create custom code that executes when the features are installed/uninstalled or activated/deactivated. Our ignagural meeting will detail the feature lifecycle and cover how to create and use your own features.
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| SharePoint 2007 has a powerful new feature that enables developers to create their own field types. These fields can allow additional UI flexibility, validation, data populated from LOBs, dependent dropdowns or even ASCX controls! We'll cover the basics of creating your own field type along with some potential problems you might enounter. |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides a very powerful search engine, but the out-of-the-box search features can only take your apps built in (and outside of) MOSS so far. This presentation will walk through the MOSS search API and demonstrate how to execute MOSS searches programmatically. We will cover:
• A brief overview of MOSS search features
• Coding Keyword searches
• Coding Full Text searches
• MOSS Search web service
• Writing better code around the search API
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| Web Parts provide the primary interface for using SharePoint. For many developers, this is where their first exposure to developing on the SharePoint platform. We’ll introduce Web Part development and cover Part to Part communication, Personalization, using AJAX.net and creating a custom Tool Pane.
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| This month MODIG has a doubleheader: PowerShell for SharePoint Developers and Setting up your SharePoint Development Environment.
PowerShell for SharePoint Developers
PowerShell isn’t just for administrators! It can greatly speed up development time and broaden your understanding of how your code is executing inside of SharePoint. Changing the value of all the list items in a folder with specific metadata is an easy task for PowerShell. Learn how to make PowerShell your command line for SharePoint.
SharePoint Development Environment
Setting up a SharePoint development environment can be a difficult hurdle for new SharePoint developers. We’ll cover some common development environment setups and tools, along with some uncommon ones. There will be an open discussion to discuss what is or isn’t working in your own environment and share tips and tricks with other developers.
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| Develop against SharePoint from afar using Web Services and RPC. Learn some of the techniques for working with SharePoint from other machines, without the use of the object model. |
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| Need to get started with developing workflows for SharePoint 2007? This session will be a quick primer to get started with workflow development. We’ll cover the basics of SharePoint’s workflow architecture, activities and how it all ties together. We’ll also explore how to add new activities to SharePoint Designer.
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| Do you have a SharePoint development question that you'd like to get answered? What about a scenario that you'd like to get some guidance on how to complete? Bring your questions and join us for a panel comprised of SharePoint Developers to answer your development related questions. |
| Come learn what code access security (CAS) is, and how to create your own custom policies for your SharePoint sites. We’ll discuss what you’re exposing yourself to when you use the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) or when you set trust levels to “Full”. This is an important topic for both Administrators and Developers to know, because there are many security implications that custom CAS policies can help you mitigate.
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| Winter Break - No Meeting |
| Todd Bleeker will be presenting on creating a Custom Membership Provider.
Updated: Todd's Code is available here. |
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| SharePoint Designer allows developers to add their own actions to use in SPD created workflows. We'll cover how to create your own actions as well as how to overcome a couple limitations of the environment and when you should avoid this approach. |
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| Eric Kraus from Microsoft will be presenting on how to build Office Business Application with Visual Studio. |
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| Interested in what SharePoint 2010 means to developers? Show up and see an overview of all the new features for devs in SharePoint 2010! |
| UPDATE: This has been cancelled for November 12. We'll be moving it to a different day that works for more people. Sorry about the late notice.
SharePoint 2010 brings some exciting changes for developers, including several APIs that can be executed from remote systems. We'll cover what the new APIs are, examples for using the new javascript and remote .net object model and how to use them effectively.
We'll be meeting at Inetium's office again on the 3rd floor of the 3500 building. Note that this date is in the beginning of the month to avoid the Thanksgiving holiday. |
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| The January MODIG has been canceled due to low attendance. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
| No MODIG meeting |