A teaser from my upcoming .NET 3.5 + SharePoint 2007 training
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6/22/2008 @ 4:06 AM
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I wanted to share a little tasty appetizer from my upcoming SharePoint 2007 training. As I mentioned, this training focuses on SharePoint 2007 in a Windows 2008, IIS 7, SQL2k8, VS2k8 setting. It will cover things such as Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, eF, AJAX, etc. alongwith every aspect of SharePoint that a developer could care for.
I have structured the training as a crawl/walk/run build up. At the beginning of Day #3 of the training, you will write a code example that will
- Teach you how to add WCF support in SharePoint
- Teach you how to author WCF services, and package and deploy them as solutions
- Teach you, how to use webHttpBinding with WCF in a non-sharepointy, and then a sharepointy environment.
- Author a WCF service that uses CAML & LINQ to drill a SharePoint site for some data.
- Package and deploy a feature that has an ASPX that uses AJAX, along with ASP.NET 3.5 native AJAX support in a SharePoint web application as a solution package.
- And then we will go even deeper with Silverlight and some hardcore fundamentals of search for the developer kind. Yes, there will be Expression studio involved as well.
- Oh and of course, debug and develop all this.
Here is a screenshot -
You see what I'm getting to? Not only is this great coverage of SharePoint - it is exactly what so many SharePoint developers have been missing - a good and concise dive into .NET 3.5. I can't tell you how excited and thrilled I am to even develop the material for this. I wish I could blog all this - but if it'd take me 2 days to teach all the above, it'd probably take me 2 weeks to craft up articles to cover all the above. I think I will blog as much as I can though, perhaps concise versions but I will (as long as I stay on schedule preparing all this material).
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6/22/2008 1:40:01 PM
TJ
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Backed by this post, I'm really looking forward to your future material (bookmarked)...
...Can I ask, do you have any good guide material for updating both development/production environments to .Net 3.5? I assume SharePoint works fine with 3.5 and there are no issues?
Thanks.
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6/22/2008 7:19:12 PM
Sahil Malik
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TJ - There is not much material out on .NET 3.5 yet. You just have to peice a lot of it together. Also, SharePoint with .NET 3.5 needs adjustments :). It works fine once you know what you're doing. But OOTB it doesn't work.
SM
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6/23/2008 7:41:22 AM
TJ
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Is SharePoint supported by Microsoft on a .Net 3.5 setup? I've read mixed reviews.
Don't fancy getting our team to upgrade and attempt this if firstly it's not supported by MS and secondly there are no guidelines/instructions to follow.
Cheers for the reply.
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6/23/2008 8:05:12 AM
Sahil Malik
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Yes it is certainly supported. Regards documentation/guidelines - well :) - let me put it this way, the benefits of .NET 3.5 far-far-far outweigh the lack of documentation and initial learning curve.
So you said "fancy" - I'm guessing you're brit.
SM
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6/23/2008 5:00:15 PM
TJ
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You are correct, a Brit I am! I do like how you got that from the word "fancy". :-)
We don't have our wires crossed here do we? I'm asking about guidelines/instructions for getting SharePoint working on a .Net 3.5 environment rather than guidelines/instructions for actual .Net 3.5 development on SharePoint.
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6/23/2008 10:28:26 PM
Sahil Malik
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No we don't have anything criscrossed.
Getting .NET 3.5 to work on SharePoint requires some jumping and doing the right things first - to avoid pain later. Once you are working on SharePoint + .NET 3.5, then regular .NET 3.5 principles apply.
SM
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6/28/2008 7:54:42 AM
Kamran Shahid
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Yep it is a real teaser.
Any way will be looking at your blog for post training Material :)
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