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WC-WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with MOSS 2007 WCM

Author: Andrew Connell
Format: Online Training with Takeaway Labs
Audience: Professional .NET Developers with WSS Fundamentals
Length: 5 Days with 3 hours per day
Description: This intensive 4-day course takes developers through the process of building and implementing content-centric websites on the SharePoint platform using the latest release: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). You will learn how to leverage the new concepts in the latest release of SharePoint to build Publishing sites (aka: Web Content Management sites) such as master pages, page layouts, field controls and custom workflows as well as existing SharePoint technologies including custom Web Parts and the provided out-of-the-box Web Parts. Technologies and concepts covered specific to MOSS Publishing sites such as content deployment, support for multilingual sites (variations) and the various types of caching offered to build a well performing site. In addition, an emphasis on using Features and solutions for development is covered throughout this course in addition to using the browser experience and SharePoint Designer 2007.
Prerequisites: Attendees should have professional development experience with Visual Studio 2005, the .NET framework and ASP.NET as well as familiarity with Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. It is also recommended (but not required) that attendees have a background with the previous version of Windows SharePoint Services V2 and have experience working directly with XML files in Visual Studio 2005.
Revision Date: 2007-07-09
Price: $995 USD

Schedule of Lectures

  1. WSS Development Primer
  2. Web Content Management Architecture
  3. Master Pages and Navigation
  4. Creating Custom Page Layouts
  5. Leveraging WCM & Custom Web Parts
  6. Custom Field Types & Field Controls
  7. Performance Tuning Publishing Sites
  8. Understanding WF & Creating Interactive Workflows
  9. Authentication & Authorization
  10. Implementing Multilingual Sites Using Variations
 Day 1   (runs from 10AM to 1:30PM EDT)

WSS Development Primer   10AM to 11:30AM EDT

  • Overview of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
  • WSS Capabilities
  • Compare & contrast SharePoint customization from development
  • Working with Visual Studio 2005 and the WSS object model
  • Working with WSS features and the WSS solution package framework

Web Content Management Architecture   12PM to 1:30 EDT

  • Overview of MOSS: added value on top of WSS
  • Overview of Web Content Management (WCM) and Publishing sites
  • Creating Publishing sites
  • Working with the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing namespace
 Day 2   (runs from 10AM to 1:30PM EDT)

Master Pages and Navigation   10AM to 11:30AM EDT

  • Creating and editing master pages using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Implications of customized and uncustomized master pages (unghosted and ghosted)
  • Managing and deploying Master Pages using the structured development approach with Features and solutions
  • Navigation provider model and SharePoint’s site map data sources
  • Customizing the out-of-the-box navigation controls and site map data sources

Creating Custom Page Layouts   12PM to 1:30 EDT

  • Creating and editing page layouts using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Adding and editing field controls and Web Part zones on Page Layouts
  • Managing and deploying page layouts using the structured development approach with Features and solutions
  • Incorporating 3rd party components (including your custom components)
 Day 3   (runs from 10AM to 1:30PM EDT)

Leveraging WCM & Custom Web Parts   10AM to 11:30AM EDT

  • Implementing the Table of Contents Web Part
  • Implementing the Summary Links Web Part
  • Implementing g the Content Query Web Part
  • Customizing the rendered output of Publishing Web Parts
  • Creating and deploying custom Web Parts with Features and solutions

Custom Field Types & Field Controls   12PM to 1:30 EDT

  • Site columns and content types
  • Creating custom field types
  • Creating custom field controls
  • Incorporating custom field controls and types into page layouts
  • Deploying custom field types and field controls with Features and solutions
 Day 4   (runs from 10AM to 1:30AM EDT)

Performance Tuning Publishing Sites   10AM to 11:30AM EDT

  • Overview of MOSS 2007 WCM performance enhancements
  • Implementing and customizing page output caching
  • Implementing and customizing disk-based object caching
  • Performance techniques when working with the object model

Understanding WF & Creating Interactive Workflows   12PM to 1:30 EDT

  • Creating and editing workflows using Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Creating template sequential and state machine workflows using Visual Studio 2005
  • Integrating Office InfoPath 2007 forms into Visual Studio 2005 authored workflows
  • Deploying workflows created using Visual Studio 2005 with Features and solutions
 Day 5   (runs from 10AM to 1:30PM)

Authentication & Authorization   10AM to 11:30AM EDT

  • Additional SharePoint groups and permission levels in MOSS Publishing sites
  • Managing permissions
  • Pluggable authentication
  • Alternative Access Mappings and Zones
  • Utilizing multiple authentication models

Implementing Multilingual Sites Using Variations   12PM to 1:30 EDT

  • Overview of Web Content Management multilingual enhancements and capabilities
  • Implementing variations and labels
  • Using variations to implement multilingual and multidevice sites
  • Implications related to navigation, search and Web Part personlization in multilingual sites
  • Applying a different user experience in different variation labels