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SharePoint scores with Web developers


By David Worthington
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September 15, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Microsoft has forecast that SharePoint will hit US$1 billion in revenue for 2008, and some analysts are predicting that it will steamroll the Web 2.0 market. SD Times interviewed several experts to discuss what is drawing enterprises to use SharePoint as a development platform and how it should evolve going forward.

SharePoint is a boon for Windows shops. The platform leverages the Microsoft stack that many have already paid to license, and they do not need to purchase additional software for development. It lets developers use their existing .NET programming skills to develop Web applications, and it provides timesaving pre-built components that would otherwise have to be built from scratch.

The platform’s growing popularity and the subtle differences between SharePoint and ASP.NET development are compelling Microsoft to invest in guidance to bring developers up to speed. The patterns and practices group at Microsoft has begun to write guidance for working with SharePoint APIs and building applications, according to Paul Andrew, senior technical product manager for SharePoint.

Microsoft ships the fundamental bits of SharePoint, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), as a free add-on for Windows Server. WSS leverages Internet Information Services and SQL Server as a data repository. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server runs on top of WSS and adds functionality, including integration with the Microsoft Office suite.

SharePoint provides a collaborative infrastructure for sharing information and assigning workflows through a secured portal. SharePoint pages are ASP.NET applications, and they embed ASP.NET server controls called Web parts.

SharePoint gives developers a lot of functionality for building Web applications out of the box that they would otherwise have to build themselves, said Ryan Thomas, SharePoint practice director at Syrinx Consulting.

Windows SharePoint Services has templates for links, announcements, contacts, events and tasks, and it issues lists (collections of information shared with SharePoint). Users may customize the templates or create their own.

At a lower level, SharePoint has facilities for data access and list management built in; developers do not have to change database schema or write store procedures for SQL Server, Thomas said. Additionally, its CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) makes it possible to run data queries without “cracking open Visual Studio,” resulting in significant time savings, he said.


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