Speaking next week at the Philly SP UG on structured MOSS Publishing site development

Next week (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 @ 5:30p - 8p) I'll be visiting the Philly SharePoint User Group to speak on the topic of building MOSS 2007 Publishing (WCM) sites the structured way. If you missed my talk at SharePoint Connections in Vegas earlier in November, here's your chance to get a similar presentation. This time around I'll have a much longer time to talk about the subject: Structured Approach to Building MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites. Here's the description of the talk:

“SharePoint doesn’t support source control.” “SharePoint doesn’t follow good SDL or change control processes.” “Developers have to use SharePoint Designer to create Publishing sites.” Heard these before? Guess what? All these myths are completely untrue. Unlike many traditional SharePoint projects, Publishing sites frequently require following an organizations change control process, software development lifecycle processes and integration within source control. Not only is it possible to follow all of these common development guidelines in SharePoint, it is a lot easier than you may think. In this session we’ll take a look at how this is possible as well as some tips and tricks in how to achieve it.

Expect a good bit of demo after setting the groundwork. The talk is targeted to developers but it will be applicable to project managers, biz analysts, etc.

I'm looking forward to visiting the Philly area for the first time. I've flown through the airport, but never been outside in the wild. Looking forward to meeting some fellow SharePointers. I understand this is the 2nd anniversary of the Philly SP User Group... I'm honored to be presenting on that night! In talking to Russ (the UG leader) I understand there will be some sort of after-meeting happy hour. If so, I'll definately be there... if not, then let me know where the local watering hole will be so we can go have an informal chat. Looking forward to seeing some of my fellow friends and SharePoint MVPs from the local area (David Mann & Bob Fox).

When: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 @ 530p-8p
Where: Philly SharePoint User Group; Microsoft Office, Malvern, PA
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Technorati tags: moss, sharepoint, wcm, publishing site

posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 9:21 AM

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# re: Speaking next week at the Philly SP UG on structured MOSS Publishing site development 11/29/2007 9:55 AM Afshin Zavareh

Andrew,

Thank you very much for the awesome presentation at Philly SharePoint, yesterday. Presentation and the material were great.

One question on packaging and deploying your solutions, I have an application which uses SmartPart which in turn it uses my user controls (ASCX files), how do you go about packaging a solution like that? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Afshin

# re: Speaking next week at the Philly SP UG on structured MOSS Publishing site development 11/29/2007 4:27 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Afshin-
Thanks for the comment and thanks for attending! I'm not completely familiar with where the SmartPart puts the ASCX files... does it put them somewhere in the 12 folder... specifically in 12\CONTROLTEMPALTES? I ask because if it requires the ASCX files to be placed outside of 12, then you can't use WSPs for deployment because WSPs can only deploy to the 12 folder. If you can configure it, I would deploy them to the 12\CONTROLTEMPLATES\SmartPart folder which you can access from http://foo.com/_controltemplates/SmartPart

# re: Speaking next week at the Philly SP UG on structured MOSS Publishing site development 11/30/2007 4:12 PM Afshin

Andrew,

Thank you very much for your reply and I was afraid that would be the case that we can't use WSP to deploy our app.

SmartPart uses a folder called UserControls under the application's virtual directory and as far as I know that can't be changed ... well, I've never looked in to see if that folder struct. can be modified or not, really.

Thanks again,
Afshin

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