Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Applications - 10232

Module 1: ASP.NET Advanced Concepts for SharePoint

This module helps you to review the essential information regarding ASP.NET including how to improve performance for high-scale sites like SharePoint. This module covers concepts around ViewState, caching, and session state and provides an opportunity to learn to make appropriate choices.

Lessons

• Server Memory
• Server CPU
• Transfer and Client

Module 2: Designing for User Experience

This module provides the key criteria and structure necessary to make appropriate decisions about what kind of user interface component to use based on the needs of the solution.

Lessons

• SharePoint Background
• Page Parts
• Pages
• Globalization and Localization
• Designing for Accessibility

Module 3: Designing for Data

This module explains defining what storage will look like. This module discusses the information about data design critical to the performance and accessibility of the solution. The module also covers scalability issues related to data as well as the structural components such as the use of lists, list definitions, content types, and fields.

Lessons

• List and Library Fundamentals
• Large Data Strategies
• SharePoint Data Management

Module 4: Designing Data Capture and Integration

This module discusses strategies on how to get the data into the system. This module covers the techniques for capturing data – including office integration and integrating to other systems with BCS.

Lessons

• Key Considerations for Data Capture
• Designing for Data Capture
• Designing for Integration

Module 5: Designing Artifacts

This module discusses items that will need to be implemented in SharePoint to tie the user interface and the data structure together. The module covers information about artifacts to begin the transformation of the abstract design into a specific set of deliverables that need to be created through SharePoint.

Lessons

• Customer Requirements
• Creating Sites

Module 6: Designing Processing Solutions

This module covers the details of options for developing solutions. The module provides decision criteria for the determination of sandbox versus full trust (or a hybrid of the two) deployments. The module also provides details for making decisions about processing including how to address long running operations and how to decide the appropriate processing solutions.

Lessons

• Multiserver Configurations
• In and Out of the Sandbox
• Getting Work Done
• Working with Workflows

Module 7: Designing Packaging

This module addresses the first order problem of factoring the solution into features and packages so that it can be upgraded. This module covers the baseline skills of determining the number, scope, and dependency of features and determining the right number of packages.

Lessons

• Understanding Packaging Life Cycle
• Establishing Design Principles

Module 8: Designing a Development Strategy

This module focuses on two key items necessary to deploy larger solutions, configuration and logging. This module provides the students a platform to expand the scope of the solution and focus on issues related to dozens of projects on a server, each with its own approach to configuration and logging.

Lessons

• Developing for the Enterprise
• The Role of Logging
• The Benefits of Application Configuration

Module 9: Developing Version and Deployment

This module delves into the challenges of versioning in a SharePoint environment. The module also addresses deployment issues because most deployment issues are related to the versioning process.

Lessons

• Application Life Cycle Management
• Source Control and Build
• Versioning Strategy
• Upgrading
• Deployment

Module 10: Designing Information Architecture and Navigation

This module helps to draw the distinction between information architecture and branding topics. The module helps to separate taxonomy (organization) from navigation (user interface).

Lessons

• Understanding Information Architecture
• Planning for Software Boundaries
• Navigation

Module 11: Designing Branding and Customization Support

This module covers branding options, including what tools can be used to customize the appearance. The module moves us to including the users and power users of the ultimate solution.

Lessons

• Introduction to Branding
• Branding Options
• Branding Decisions
• Managing User Experience
• Planning for Customization

Module 12: Designing Security

This module describes how to design security for performance and provide a holistic view so to evaluate security implications and tradeoffs. This module also outlines the new Claims-Based authentication in SharePoint 2010 and how Forms-Based Authentication fits into this model.

Lessons

• Security Within SharePoint
• Using an Alternate Identity Store
• Forms-Based Authentication
• Deeper Look at SharePoint Claims

Module 13: Designing for Page and Data Access Performance

This module discusses page and data access performance and how to plan for a high performance site.

Lessons

Optimizing SharePoint Page Performance

Analyzing Performance with the SharePoint Developer Dashboard

Optimizing SharePoint Data Access Performance

Module 14: Designing a Testing Strategy

This module discusses what we do at the end of the development process, testing. The module also covers functional testing and scale/performance testing.

Lessons

• Testing Concepts
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Performance Testing