Whitepapers- Extending

Access Secured Web Services from Windows SharePoint Services Applications
Use Kerberos authentication and impersonation to secure a Web service accessed by a SharePoint application in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server environments.

Add Wizard Functionality to Your Web Applications
Learn about the design and use of a framework that can be used to add Wizard-like functionality to Web applications. In addition, learn about the Wizard Control available in the upcoming version of ASP.NET, code name ASP.NET "Whidbey"; and learn how developers will be able to migrate to the new control when it is available. Download WizardAppSample.msi.

Add XML Functionality in Excel 2003 from Visual Basic .NET
Discover how to generate XML from a dataset, format the XML using a Stylesheet, and then use code to open the transformed XML.  

A Developer's Introduction to Web Parts
Learn what Web Parts are and how to create them. Developers can build Web Parts as ASP.NET custom controls. Administrators can install Web Parts on any site based on Windows SharePoint Services. Users can add Web Parts to pages by dragging and dropping in a browser, and they can personalize them by setting properties. Web Parts can connect to other Web Parts using standard interfaces.

Automated Installation of SharePoint Portal Server 2003
This paper provides information about automated installation of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 by using the command line and Setup.exe with parameters. It also provides information about using a Setup.ini file to install SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Backing Up and Restoring Web Sites Created with Windows SharePoint Services
When considering what method to use for backing up or moving a Web site created with Windows SharePoint Services, it is necessary to evaluate such factors as whether administrative access to the Web server is required, whether security and permissions are backed up and restored, and whether site structure and content are backed up and restored. Based on your unique requirements, this white paper will help you determine which tools you should use to make backing up and moving Web sites create with Windows SharePoint Services.

Building Custom Alert Result Channels in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Understand how .NET developers can extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with custom alert result channels. Learn about offering users extra channels on which to receive alert results. This article works through the Quick Alerts alert result channel as an example.

Building an Online Web Part Gallery
Learn how to create a Web Part gallery as a central location for deploying Web Parts to multiple servers that run Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Building XML Data-Driven Web Sites with FrontPage 2003
Learn how to use FrontPage 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services to create XML data-driven Web sites.

Code Sample: Create a Site Context Search Box that Uses SharePoint Portal Server Search Results
Use the search box sample to customize the Windows SharePoint Services site-level Search box to return SharePoint Portal Server Search results. Read the accompanying MSDN article for more information.

Converting an Excel Spreadsheet into a List
Take a spreadsheet created with Microsoft Office Excel and convert it to a Windows SharePoint Services list. Once converted to a list, users can update information themselves with their Web browsers.

Converting Dashboard Web Parts to the Web Part Infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Learn to convert dashboard Web Parts to the Web Part infrastructure. Read an overview of Digital Dashboard technology and the Web Part infrastructure, including the dashboard features implemented in the Web Part infrastructure and the enhancements introduced in the new architecture.

Consuming XML Web Services with FrontPage
Learn how to consume a Microsoft .NET XML Web service by using FrontPage.

Create Admin Virtual Server Method
The CreateAdminVirtualServer method of the SPGlobalAdmin class creates an administration virtual server based on a new or existing application pool in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

Create a JavaScript Drop-Down Menu in FrontPage
You use drop-down menus every day—but how can you create them in your own Web site? This article provides every detail you need, as well as JavaScript for three kinds of menus.

Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET
Learn about displaying XML data in an ASP.NET Web page using the XML Web control to retrieve remote XML data, and about using the Repeater control to emit XML data from a database. With the ever-increasing demands of data sharing among disparate platforms, the use of XML has exploded over the past few years. Realizing this trend, Microsoft made sure to include robust XML support throughout the .NET Framework. For ASP.NET developers, this means that displaying and working with XML data in a Web page has never been simpler. Throughout this article we'll learn about XML and ASP.NET by building an RSS 2.0 syndication engine and an online news aggregator. This article assumes the reader is familiar with ASP.NET and XML. Download RSSAggregator.msi.

Creating Web Parts that Call Web Services for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
This article accompanies a sample Visual Studio .NET solution that contains custom Web Parts written in Microsoft Visual C#. These sample Web Parts, which access Amazon.com Web services, demonstrate how to use asynchronous processing and data caching. In addition, the article shows how to consume Web services without writing any code, by using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to configure a Data View Web Part.

Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2003
Stephen Toub walks you through customizing native Outlook integration with the Lists Web service from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to build a custom Web application.

Customize List Item Forms in Windows SharePoint Services
Enhance and extend interaction with lists in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services when customizing forms used to work with list items.

Data Solutions with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003: The Database Interface Wizard and the Data View Web Part
Walk through how to build custom database solutions using the Database Interface Wizard and integrate them with your Web site using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. Learn how to edit ASP and ASP.NET files using FrontPage. Learn how to connect your database to your Web site including search forms and search results. Also learn how to create data views on SharePoint sites using FrontPage.

Data Storage Design, Backup, and Restore for Windows SharePoint Services
The configuration and best practices outlined in this paper may be of use to anyone deploying Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) in a hosting scenario, for example, Internet service providers. This paper outlines the data storage solution including the hardware environment and RAID configuration and the database back up and restore procedures for this deployment.

Debugging Web Parts
Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to debug an existing Web Part assembly which can be used in FrontPage and SharePoint sites.

Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies for Enterprise Collaboration
This presentation contains information detailing Microsoft Operations and Technology Group’s deployment of Microsoft ® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies for enterprise collaboration. With server farms centralized in three regional data centers, the platform supports personal storage, team Web sites, group and division portals, and enterprise services.  Microsoft saves both hardware and support costs while providing a solution that makes information workers more productive.

Develop Integrated, Form-based Solutions with Microsoft Office System
Use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2003 to develop integrated, form-based solutions that streamline existing information-gathering processes.

Develop Solutions Using the MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies
Glean best practices for developing your solutions. In addition, explore specific topics on using the MCMS Page Listing Web Part, document library placeholder, and search integration.

Exploring the Business Intelligence Smart Tag Wizard
Learn how to use the Business Intelligence Smart Tag Wizard to add flexible data analysis functionality to your Microsoft Office applications.

Extending Find and Replace for Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Learn the basics of creating queries that find and replace text in Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 documents, the XML Query schema that FrontPage uses to save and reuse queries, and the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) objects that you can use to create your own powerful solutions to extend FrontPage.

FrontPage Server Configuration Options and Features
When combined, FrontPage 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services eliminate the need for Server Extensions. This solution allows customers to access new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with better ways to do things in previous versions of FrontPage. Most exciting of all is the evolution of Server Extensions into the more powerful solution of creating rich, Extensible Markup Language (XML) data-driven Web sites and instant Web solutions, accessible through a server configuration that harnesses the power of both Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services.

Improve Collaboration with Office 2003 Editions and SharePoint Products and Technologies
Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provide an integrated combination of products that enables groups ranging from small work teams to large-scale enterprises to find, access, share, store, update, work with, and manage information. You can work on collaborative documents, check group schedules, send instant messages to team members, organize meetings, create resource libraries, and transfer data to and from programs using the familiar Microsoft Office environment and a flexible, easy-to-use group Web site.

InfoPath 2003 Decision Tree: Comparing InfoPath Forms to Other Microsoft Solutions
Clarify the role that Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 plays in relation to Microsoft Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 smart documents.

Installing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a Server with Windows SharePoint Services
Learn how to install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a server that already has Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services installed, and learn how to incorporate existing SharePoint sites into the new configuration.

Integration Guide for Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft Office 2003 is closely integrated with Windows SharePoint Services. You can use many of the menu commands and task panes in Office 2003 applications to take advantage of the document storage and management features of Windows SharePoint Services, create SharePoint sites, import and export lists on SharePoint sites, and link list data from SharePoint sites to your databases. This paper describes the integration between Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services. 

Integrate Outlook 2003 with SharePoint Products and Technologies
See how the "What's New in Outlook 2003 for Developers" Visual Basic .NET sample application demonstrates importing a Contact list from a SharePoint site into Outlook and directly exporting Outlook Contact items to a SharePoint site. 

Managed Code
Perhaps one of the most important aspects of developing an application that uses the .NET Framework, is that it uses what is known as "Managed Code". The .NET Framework in general, and Managed Code in specific, represent the future direction that Microsoft is heading in the programming model that will be used for developing all Windows applications. In "Longhorn", the codename for the next version of Windows, we will expose an entirely managed API for developing applications with, and this will be the primary method for developing applications for "Longhorn". Watch this episode to check out the benefits of Managed Code as used within the .NET Framework.

Microsoft SharePoint 2003- Object Models and Search
Beyond building Web Parts, you might want to automate or extend Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. For example, you might want to create SharePoint lists, add items to lists, add documents to document libraries or perform document management functionality programmatically. Windows SharePoint Services has a managed object model that makes all this possible.

Microsoft SharePoint 2003-Overview
With the next generation of the Microsoft SharePoint products—Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)—the SharePoint family of products finally delivers on the integration promised by its name. This article explains the new architecture and features of SharePoint 2003 and how to extend SharePoint with your own custom code.

Packaging and Deploying Web Parts for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Learn how to package and deploy Web Parts by using the administration tools provided with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.  Note: The information in this article also applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, which is built on the Windows SharePoint Services platform.

SharePointPSSearch SQL Syntax (Preview)
This download includes a preview of the reference documentation for Microsoft® SharePointPSSearch, the SQL Syntax used for Microsoft SharePointPSSearch Full Text Search.

Submitting Forms in InfoPath 2003
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Service Pack (SP) 1 introduces data adapters for e-mail and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and a new submit mechanism whereby you can call a submit adapter through rules, which provide a non-programmatic method for submitting form data.

Team and Enterprise Collaboration Platform
Collaboration is essential to productivity at the personal, team, group, and enterprise levels. Find out how the Microsoft hosted collaboration platform, based on Microsoft® SharePoint™ products and technologies, provides rich services for information workers while lowering IT costs.

Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP
Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to mySAP™ ERP demonstrates how organizations can make the business information they store and manage in SAP applications available to users in an intranet portal site displayed in a Web browser

Tips and Tricks for Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Learn how to perform a number of basic tasks in a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment. This white paper will help you learn to use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and will introduce you to the basic features and principles of portal site navigation and customization.

The XML Files: XML in Microsoft Office Word 2003 
The native support for WordML makes it possible to build powerful and flexible content solutions without leaving the comfort of your XML APIs. Plus, the built-in support for XML Schema, real-time validation, and different XSLT techniques makes working with custom XML schemas and output formats a breeze. You can use FrontPage 2003 to create a Web page that displays data from an XML file, and then you can apply filtering, sorting, and conditional formatting to display the data the way you want.

Upgrading a Web Part Assembly for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Upgrade a Web Part assembly for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, including adding, deleting, renaming, repurposing, or upgrading properties for a Web Part.

Using Lists to Create Collapsible Navigation Bars
Create collapsible navigation bars that expand when you click on them to make navigating to key pages in your site easier. These collapsible navigation bars are created using grouped Windows SharePoint Services lists.

Using FrontPage 2003 and Visual Studio .NET Together
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 provides more and better features than ever for working with code. Even so, FrontPage makes no claims of being a complete and integrated software development environment. That distinction goes to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft's top-tier platform for developing software of all kinds. Specifically, Visual Studio .NET is the preferred development environment for Microsoft ASP.NET Web pages.
Because each product has different strengths, Web designers typically prefer FrontPage, and Web programmers usually prefer Visual Studio, even if people with both specialties are working on the same project. This article explains how these two pieces of software (and their corresponding approaches to creating Web pages) can coexist peacefully.

Using Smart Tags with Research Services
The Research task pane available in Microsoft Office 2003 applications allows the user to easily search a number of built-in and online resources, such as a dictionary or news articles. The Research pane is also extensible; a developer can create a Web service, or research service, designed specifically to interact with the Research pane. In this document, you’ll learn about creating a smart tag for use with a research service, you’ll find out how to include a smart tag in the research service response, and you’ll learn some tricks you can use to communicate between the research service and the smart tag.

Using the Database Interface Wizard with FrontPage 2003
For the professional developer, FrontPage 2003 is designed to provide many of the most commonly used database applications for a Web site, such as storing form input in a database, providing an interface for editing and adding records, displaying the results of a search query, generating reports, and more. In addition to the support for ASP database pages, FrontPage 2003 introduces excellent support for both ASP.NET and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, providing three times the number of choices available in FrontPage 2002. 

Using Windows SharePoint Services with the Microsoft Office System
See how SharePoint Products and Technologies interact programmatically with Office 2003 applications as you learn how to use the SharePoint list feature, Web Service interface, and document libraries programmatically from Access and Excel.

Using WML and WAP to Display Web Sites on Mobile Devices
Learn how use Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML) to deliver Web content to cell phones and wireless-enabled devices, and how to use FrontPage to create content for WAP-enabled devices.

Web Part Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Learn how to install and use the Web Part templates for Visual Studio .NET. Use these templates to create Web Part libraries containing Web Parts and Tool Parts for Windows SharePoint Services.

Working With Data View Web Parts
This whitepaper introduces using the Data View Web Part in FrontPage 2003 and shows how it can help build powerful, data driven web sites based on XML and XSL technologies. It also discusses the data source catalog and how it can be managed using FrontPage 2003.

Working With Web Part Pages
This white paper discusses the notion of Web Part Pages and shows in detail how a web site author can use FrontPage 2003 to quickly and easily create sophisticated, data driven web sites using the readily available library of Web Parts.

Working With Web Part Libraries
This white paper discusses the different types of Web Part Libraries available to the FrontPage 2003 developer. It describes each library, and how Web Parts in that library can be managed. It also points out the differences between accessing the libraries using FrontPage 2003 and using the web browser.

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