Sharepoint Conference Day 1

by | May 15, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Wow! What a day – cant believe it all happened in 1 day!! (not groundhog day or so).

I presented the following 3 sessions:

  1. (Dev01)Essentials 1: Object Models, Web Services, Document I/O, Event, and Lists (co
    presented with Ryan Guguid) (download
    ppt)

  2. (Dev02)Essentials 2: ASP.NET Web Parts, Master Pages, and Data Rendering (download
    ppt) 

  3. (Dev04)Essentials 4: Templates, Definitions, and Solution Deployment (download
    ppt)

Given the conference was over 2 days – I thought it might be nice to break the sessions
up over a couple days……but then again…..it made the night that much more worthwhile
🙂

The sessions were great and here at the conference they captured all sorts of stats
being scanned off evaluation forms directly through (Canon Secure Scan – it talks
straight to a Sharepoint list) to sharepoint……then there’s a screen constantly
displaying all sorts of stats.

I was in the top 10 for a while…….which was great given there are 54 sessions
here.
During the night I found myself (attempting) to ride a unicycle……you do that once!
🙂

During my presentations I had LOTS of DEMOS – the demos are grouped into my sessions:

  • Dev01 – samples in here show (all based within a Win32 app):

    • connecting to Sharepoint – what you would do outside of a webpart.

    • getting details from Sharepoint sites, usage, changelogs, audit and running with elevated
      perms.

    • Using CAML to query a list, a site and a site collection (SPQuery and cross site queries)

    • Created an Offline Client using Lists.asmx and Copy.asmx webservices.

    • EventHandlers – two of them. A simple one that changes the title of a list item; the
      other one will grab a property from the User’s profile and update the corresponding
      field in the list. e.g. Region field – the user is assigned to a Region and when they
      create a document, the Region field with the document also is populated.
  • Dev02 – Some cool demos here….

    • Master Pages – I started with the Minimal.Master and added a DHTML clock to it, and
      also an IE 7 Search provider (the drop down in the top RH corner that lets you select
      your search provider). So where ever the users are, they can always just search the
      intranet simply.

    • WebParts – wouldnt be a demo with out webparts…..I’ve got WebParts that go and explore
      the Zone they belong to (minimise all the others and maximise themselves); custom
      webpart menus; use the SPGrid and SPDataSource object; created a dropdown action menu
      off one of the columns; connections between parts; and…and….using AJAX
      within WebParts       (I presented a text box to type into and it will query all
      the document libraries within the current site, as you type and hit enter a SPGrid
      dynamical re-renders with the results…pretty cool…and I’m no AJAX expert)
  • Dev04 – I based my current site (with all the demos) – Conference Demos and spoke
    about the value of solutions etc. I ran the Sharepoint Solution Generator over my
    site and produced the results here.

    Here are the demos!!!!!

Conf_Demos.zip
(3.43 MB)