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Announcing the Mastering SharePoint 2013 Development lab

Erwin van Hunen — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:53:37 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/erwinvanhunen/archive/2012/10/31/announcing-the-mastering-sharepoint-2013-development-lab.aspx

If you’re a seasoned SharePoint developer and you’d like to get up and running with all the new goodies that SharePoint 2013 is bringing, make sure you check out the Mastering SharePoint 2013 Development lab I’m giving at LabCenter in Stockholm, Sweden.

3 days of development heaven *and* you take away a brand new laptop, or an iPad, or some of the other perks you decide to go for.

Check out: http://www.labcenter.se/Labs#lab=Mastering_Sharepoint_2013_Development

The overview of the 3 days:

Day 1

Module 1: Comparing SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2010

What’s new in SharePoint 2013

Module 2: Installing your SharePoint 2013 development environment

How to successfully (and above all correctly) install SharePoint 2013

Day 2

Module 3: Apps, sandboxed or full trust?

What’s the difference between the deployment models.
Pro’s and con’s
Code or no-code solutions?

Module 4: Search is the new black

Using the new out of the box Search webparts
Building a search based solution

Day 3

Module 5: Workflows

Differences between SharePoint 2010 workflows and 2013 workflows
Building a workflow using Visio and SharePoint Designer
Building a workflow using Visual Studio

Module 6: You’re the master of the design

The design manager
Master pages
Page layouts
CSS and HTML5

Speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS in Stockholm on the 14th of February

Erwin van Hunen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:34:59 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/erwinvanhunen/archive/2012/02/12/speaking-about-windows-phone-7-android-and-ios-in-stockholm.aspx

On Tuesday, February the 14th, I'm speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS development for the Rich Application Development Interest Group (TRADIG) in Stockholm.

This is what I will talk about:

OS, Android, WP7. What’s different, and what’s the same? What hardware and software do you need to get up and running as a developer. What are the main differences in its API’s, and what can you do with one platform that’s totally impossible on the other? Objective-C, Java, C#, or is there more? How’s multi-tasking handled in Android, iOS, WP7? Focus on one platform only? Or support them all? Many questions that I will try to answer in a presentation ‘that covers them all’. Let’s have a great discussion!

If you're interesting on listening in:

http://www.meetup.com/tradig/events/50195772/

SharePoint 2010 Development 8 day deep dive training in Oslo

Erwin van Hunen — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:51:48 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/erwinvanhunen/archive/2012/02/10/sharepoint-2010-development-8-day-deep-dive-training-in-oslo.aspx

Say you're an experience .NET developer, but you want to broaden your horizon and dive into SharePoint 2010 development? I'm giving a 8 day deep dive training in Oslo on March 14th, 2012.

Topics that I'll address are:

installation
configuration
lists and views
content types
webparts
event receivers
timerjobs
optimization
handling large lists
any many more

It's an 8 day training, so it's quite intensive. We're starting on a Wednesday, continue until Friday, have a break in the weekend and then the whole next week. During the training we have several sessions where experienced developers come in and talk about customer cases, and in the second week of the training there is a social event.

More info can be found here: http://www.bouvet.no/BouvetWEB/Kurs.aspx?catid=162e6100-e21d-4048-b9ee-1195a36fffff&newsid=83884d3b-5b98-4256-89a6-06b8109c2124

If you're not familiar with the Norwegian language, don't you worry: the training will be given in English and all course material will be in English too.

Creating a Site Collection from your own WebTemplate on Office 365

Erwin van Hunen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:25:17 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/erwinvanhunen/archive/2012/02/09/creating-a-site-collection-from-your-own-webtemplate-on-office.aspx

The problem
As you might know, Site Definitions are not supported on Office365. This is not a restriction of Office365 as such, but more a Sandboxing restriction. In a SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed environment you’re not allowed to deploy files to the file system. And a SharePoint Site Definition requires that.

The answer lies in the newly introduced web template tag. In this post I will describe, step by step, how to create a web template, and how to create a new Site Collection based on that web template.

So, if I have create a Web Template instead of a Site Definition, what is the problem?
Office365 is a sandboxed environment. That means that if you create a web template, and you packaged it nicely in a WSP file, you can upload that WSP to the solutions gallery of your site collection and activate it. After activation you have a template available to create the site from. And there we have a catch-22. What if the site we upload the solution package to, so the site itself, needs to be based on a webtemplate? In a on premise environment, where you are farm administrator, you simply upload the package to your farm, activate a feature on WebApplication level that installs the template and of you go. But that level of access you don’t have in Office365 or any other Sandboxed environment.

The solution

Create a new SharePoint project (I picked a empty one for this example).
Enter a url of a site on your local server.
When asked for the trust level, pick “Deploy as a sandboxed solution”.
Add a new Empty Element to your project
IMPORTANT: The name of the element should be *IDENTICAL* to the name of the Web Template you’re creating.
You will end up with an empty “elements.xml” file in your editor.

Create a new WebTemplate entry as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <WebTemplate
  BaseTemplateID="1"
  BaseTemplateName="STS"
  BaseConfigurationID="1"
  Name="Root Site"
  Title="Root Site"
  DisplayCategory="Company Templates"
  Description="Company Root Site Template"
  />
</Elements>

Notice the Name property of the tag. That name should be identical to the name you used for the element in step 4.
The BaseTemplateID is the ID of the Out of the box site definition. You can find those definitions in

{SHAREPOINTROOT}\TEMPLATE\1033\XML\WEBTEMP.XML

If you have additional language packs installed on your server, like for instance Swedish, then there are other folders.
Open the WEBTEMP.XML file and find the site definition you want to base your webtemplate upon. I picked the Blank site definition (STS), and that definition has an ID of 1. Set that value of the BaseTemplateID property.
The BaseConfigurationID property is the configuration you want to use . The configuration and what is performed in it can be found in

{SHAREPOINTROOT}\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\STS\xml\ONET.XML).
Provide values for the other properties as appropriate and you are almost done.
If you want to use an ONET.XML file, you can. Copy an existing onet.xml file (or, if you want/can, create a new one from scratch) and add it to your newly created element. Mark the file as an ElementFile, as in the screenshot below:
As Visual Studio automatically created a feature for you and added this elements file to the feature, its now just a matter of packaging your solution and you’re ready to deploy it to Office365.

Now, in order to use this newly created webtemplate for a new Site Collection, act as follows:

Log on as administrator of Office365 and create a new site collection. When asked for the template, switch to the custom tab and pick “<Select template later…>”
Wait until the site is created and click on the link to browse to it. You will be asked to pick a template. Do not pick the template, but go to the Site Settings by opening

{http://yoursite.office365.com/sites/yoursite}/_layouts/settings.aspx
Open the solutions gallery, upload your solution package (WSP file) to the gallery and activate it.
Now browse again normally to your site, and again you will asked to pick a template. And now, finally, your template will be available for selection. Pick it and your site will be created just the way you want it.