Last week, my friend Wen He and I spoke for the Hawaii SharePoint User Group. Our topic was Real World SharePoint: 25 Practical Business Solutions. We had a great turnout, with standing room only and a line a people out the door just trying to listen.
The video for our session is now posted and can be viewed here. For those wondering what was covered, below is a brief overview of the 25 solutions that we covered. This was presented in a way so that it would appeal to both technical and non-technical people.
Since we didn’t have time to get into much detail (25 demos in less than 2 hours), I will be re-recording these as individual video files. Not only will I cover how the solution works, I will also be walking through the code. Stay tuned to my blog, and I will let you know when these are available.
Session Topics:
Part I - Web Parts, Web Services, and InfoPath
1. Data-Driven Web Part
2. Web Part Connections (Show Weather)
3. Client side connected Web Parts
4. Create Info Path form that creates a new Announcement List
5. InfoPath Form that surfaces fields in a SharePoint column
6. Profile Editor (Windows Application – SME User Profile property)
Part II - Ajax and Silverlight
7. AJAX Find User
8. AJAX Search
9. Silverlight Charting
Part III - Site Provisioning
10. Programmatically provision a site collection and customize the root web
11. Create a new site based on a custom site definition
12. Site Action menu item (Custom Action) that links to a custom app page
13. Hide Delete Site link (HideCustomAction)
14. Print View Feature from CodePlex
Part IV - Custom field, event handler, and Workflow
15. Delegate Control (World Clock)
16. Rating Stars custom field
17. Validating Custom Field (generic)
18. Custom event receiver for classification of an announcement
19. Upload document and set content type (apply metadata)
20. Resume handling workflow
Part V - Business Intelligence
21. Publishing Excel file into Excel Services and exposing parameters
22. Demonstrate a Windows app to calling in to Excel Web Services
23. BDC Business Data List, Related Item, Business Item web part
24. BDC Search
25. Reporting Services