Zlatan Dzinic
Principal Consultant
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional SharePoint
Business Connexion
Session Objectives and Takeaways
Audience:
Developers who want to learn more about building services
for SharePoint
Session Objectives:
To understand the different ways in which you can develop web services
for SharePoint
Provide some guidance around native, ASMX, and WCF services for
SharePoint 2007
Level 400 means:
You’ve got enough development experience
We will walk through concepts and code
You understand at least basic concepts of services
You have a general willingness to toil and occasionally be frustrated
Agenda
Custom app development and SharePoint
SharePoint Web services
Custom Web services
Futures
Summary
Q&A
Custom App Development and
SharePoint
SharePoint? Development Platform?
Custom Solutions
MOSS
Internet
Windows SharePoint Services
LOB
Systems
VS/SPD
SQL
Server
WF
ASP.NET
IIS
.NET Framework
Intranet
…
Microsoft Windows 2003/2008
- 650,000 SharePoint Developers WW
Your Development Environment
Getting Started
Windows Server 2003 or 2008
WSS 3.0 SP1
MOSS 2007 (Standard/Enterprise/FIS) SP2
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
VSeWSS 1.2 or 1.3
Optional
Expression Blend (WPF or Silverlight UI development)
SharePoint Designer (Master pages, custom field types)
Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 SP1 (Silverlight solution development)
SharePoint Web Services
SharePoint Web Services
Provide programmatic
access to key
SharePoint functionality
Work with lists, Excel
services, business data
catalog, etc.
Both admin and nonadmin services available
Cannot be accessed
anonymously
Windows Credentials
are required
SharePoint Web Services (cont’d)
Take caution when writing custom services
You could write one when the service already exists
Think about type of reference
Creating a service increases portability
Referencing DLL increases performance (but you’re restricted to
server-only deployment)
SharePoint Virtual Directories
_vti_bin
_vti_adm
Things you can do in WSS sites
Things you can do in Central Admin
http://server/site/_vti_bin/service.asmx
http://server:1234/_vti_adm/service.asmx
* Note the path to the site!
* Note the PORT!
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\isapi
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
Server Extensions\12\admisapi
Exploring the Native SharePoint
Web Services
Common Usage
Document and asset management
Create or store images
Document and form libraries
Read/write list data
Enhance applications using DM capabilities
Site management
Create sites dynamically
Add users programmatically
Custom lists
Create and populate custom lists
Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007
Check In/Out Documents
Development Methodology
Native SharePoint Web Service
Get familiar with the available services
Create your client
Discover the services
Consume the service in your app
Through service integration
Through DLL reference
Windows
Server
SharePoint
Deploy your app
1
Client
Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
2
Consuming a Native SharePoint Web Service
Custom Web Services
ASP.NET and WCF
You can create either ASMX or WCF
Web services
SharePoint supports ASMX natively
Both are supported through isolated Web
app domain
Deployment to hive requires additional
service configuration
Security considerations include cross-domain
policy files
Consuming Custom Services
No different than other web services
Create a Web Reference
Write some code
Here’s how to call a custom web service deployed
to the _layouts virtual directory which creates
sub sites
Development Methodology
Custom ASP.NET Web Service
Create and build your service
Test the service
Deploy the service
Windows Server
To SharePoint Hive (with configurations)
To Isolated Web App Domain
Test in deployed environment
Create your client
Client
Discover the services
Consume the service in your app
Deploy your client
SharePoint
1
App
Domain
2
Creating the ASMX Web Service
Deploying to SharePoint Hive
In VS 2008, create an ASP.NET Web Service
Copy the DLL to the GAC and make sure you add a
fully qualified reference to it in your ASMX file
Run the disco tool against the ASMX file to create a
.dsco and .wsdl file
Amend the files to work with SharePoint
Append the files with .aspx and copy to ISAPI
folder (copy ASMX and the two ASPX files)
List in SPDISCO.ASPX file
Creating the ASMX Web Service
Deploying to SharePoint Hive
In VS 2008, create an ASP.NET Web Service
Copy the DLL to the GAC and make sure you
add a fully qualified reference to it in your
ASMX file
Run the disco tool against the ASMX file to
create a .dsco and .wsdl file
Amend the files to work with SharePoint
Append the files with .aspx and copy to ISAPI
folder (copy ASMX and the two ASPX files)
List in SPDISCO.ASPX file
Developing and Consuming a Custom
ASP.NET Web Service
Development Methodology
Custom WCF Web Service
Create and build your service
Test the service
Deploy the service
Windows Server
To SharePoint Hive (with configurations)
To Isolated Web App Domain
Test in deployed environment
Create your client
Client
Discover the services
Consume the service in your app
Deploy your client
SharePoint
1
App
Domain
2
Developing and Consuming a Custom
WCF Service
Futures
Silverlight and SharePoint
Integrating Custom Services
No Touch
<iframe/>
Streaming Services
Low Touch
Web Part as
Host
High Touch
.NET Assembly/
Web Part
SP OM/External
Data
SharePoint, Silverlight & Custom
Services
Windows Azure
Windows Azure - Services
Windows Azure exposes services
Blob storage
Table storage
Queues
Services can be exposed via Web Role
Worker Role can consume services
Scheduled or command initiated tasks can interact
with SharePoint web services
Summary
Summary
You have a number of options when developing
services for SharePoint
Range from native Web services to custom services to
services in the cloud
Be sure to evaluate needs and design for custom
services against existing Web services
Explore both native and custom services—trying both
ASMX and WCF to test the difference
The future will see more development in the area of
Azure SharePoint Services and certainly more
Silverlight integration with services
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Office and SharePoint track (OFC)
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Additional Resources
Blogs
http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan
http://blogs.msdn.com/steve_fox/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/
Books
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed (Sams)
Real World SharePoint Development (Wrox)
Professional SharePoint Developing using Silverlight 2 (Wrox)
MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx
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