SharePoint training in Perth - Professional MOSS 2007 Solutions by Readify

Brian Madsen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:16:16 GMT

Wow - finally some SharePoint training in Perth, WA that steps up and presents something other than the typical "Boot Camp".

It's a four (4) day, intensive training program which you'd be nuts to miss out on.

Here's an outline of what's on offer for those four days:

Day 1

SharePoint 2007 Developer Roadmap

Architectural overview of SharePoint and the Office 2007 system

WSS as a collaboration solution

WSS as a server-side development platform

Overview of MOSS components and services

Creating and testing your first WSS feature

SharePoint Architecture

WSS Integration with ASP.NET 2.0

The configuration database and content databases

Configuring the web.config file for a Web application

Understanding site pages versus application pages

Pages and Site Branding

Understanding page parsing and Safe Mode restrictions

Creating a feature with custom page templates

Designing page templates using controls and Web Part Zones

Understanding the standard default.master page template

Creating a feature to apply branding at the site collection level

Understanding and extending the CSS classes in core.css

Day 2

Developing Web Parts

Creating, deploying and debugging ASP.NET Web Parts in WSS

Designing Web Parts with persistent properties

Web Part Description files and the Web Part Gallery

Creating a feature to import Web Parts into the Web Part Gallery

Backwards compatibility with WSS V2-style Web Parts

Lists and Content Types

New WSS 3.0 enhancements to lists and document libraries

Defining site columns, custom field types and content types

Provisioning document libraries using a feature

Defining a custom list type using a feature

Creating event handlers using custom event receiver classes

Forms Services with InfoPath 2007

Creating input forms with InfoPath

InfoPath integration with WSS forms libraries

Forms Services Architecture

Designing server-side forms with InfoPath 2007

User deployment of server-side forms versus administrator deployment

Day 3

SharePoint WorkFlows

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Primer Creating WF programs in Visual Studio with the workflow designer

Creating, deploying and debugging workflow templates for WSS

Creating workflow associations and workflow instances

Developing workflows which create and wait on WSS tasks

Creating workflow input forms for MOSS using Microsoft InfoPath

Extending MOSS Portal and Search

Shared Service Provider (SSP) Architecture Creating sites from the MOSS Collaboration Portal site template

User Profiles and Audience Targeting

MOSS infrastructure for creating MySites Configuring and extending MOSS Search

The Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Working with BDC Application Definition Files Application, Entities, Methods and Associations

Surfacing backend data using BDC Web Parts BDC integration with MOSS search

Creating custom Web Parts that execute BDC queries

Day 4

Web Content Management

Customising sites creating from the MOSS Publishing Site template

Creating content types and custom page layouts for Web content

Understanding the MOSS content approval process

Converting Office documents into Web-ready formats

Optimizing performance with MOSS caching features

Excel Services and Report Center

Introduction to Excel Services

Publishing Excel spreadsheets that render in the browser

Trusted locations, connections and user-defined functions (UDFs)

Creating Dashboard pages with Report Center Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and filters

MOSS integration with SQL Reporting Services and SQL Analysis Services

WSS/MOSS Security

Trust Levels, Web Parts and Code Access Security (CAS)

Windows Authentication versus Forms Authentication

WSS Identities and Security Contexts

Escalation of Privilege

Delegating User Credentials

Using the MOSS single sign On (SSO) Service

For more information on this fantastic offer, go here: http://www.readify.net/Default.aspx?tabid=271

To register (be quick, i'm positive this will sell out fast), click here: http://www.readify.net/book+now!.aspx?ctl=RBS%20Registration&mid=1467&CourseID=29&Type=NormalReg

These types of training sessions does not come along often enough - maybe we'll see more coming out from Readify?

Thanks to Andy Lamb for informing us about it!

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Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Brian Madsen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:32:37 GMT

I think it’s really about time that VS2008, which is the development flagship, gets up to speed and starts enabling developers!

The push from MS has for a long time been 64-bit…go 64-bit OS…64-bit, 64-bit and then a bit more 64-bit.

But where is the support? honestly guys! for systems to move onto 64-bit, you need to ENABLE those that work with it to actually be capable of working with it.

The latest release, Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services is IMHO an epic fail..

Two reasons:

1) still has to work on Windows Server 2003 even though it’s considering best practises to seperate development machines and servers.

2) 64-bit is as of yet, not in scope..yes that’s right, 64-bit isn’t supported in the latest release.

Alex Malek’s response to this was “Unfortunately, 64-bit is not in scope at the moment. Along with support for WinXP/Vista, this is at the very top of our list of pain points we hope to address in subsequent releases.”

that’s simply just not good enough….not in scope? i mean, did we just wake up this morning to find that 64-bit had evolved over night?

That goes without saying…this now pushes the adoption rate out again for Visual Studio 2008. I know it’s probably a mad rush to get VS2008 out the door and the tools should follow shortly after. Yet again, those who have adopted 64-bit is stuck again and i now have to create yet another development environment (virtual of course) so i can have these extensions implemented – time == money == implementation == adoption == sales…it’s an easy equation.

And i was seriously looking forward to being able to use Visual Studio 2008 out-of-the-box for SharePoint development.

Dissapointed..seriously dissapointed that this is the stance that’s been taken by the SharePoint Designer team.

One for the road…

Can we find a date, preferably before Visual Studio 2012 gets released, which will let us know if we should even bother with Visual Studio 2008, not to forget 64-bit, at this stage?

Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine : SharePoint Designer

SharePoint training in Perth - Professional MOSS 2007 Solutions by Readify

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail