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SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam Description:
1. SharePoint 2010 Search
Search is much more than just finding something; concepts such as Information Architecture, Information Organization, and Findability are very important when implementing SharePoint. Come to this session to see how SharePoint 2010’s enhanced Search capability (such as the Managed Metadata Service) can address these concepts and help make your Search implementation much more effective.
2. Integrating SharePoint 2010 Workflows into Backend Systems Using External Data Exchange Services
The key aspect of any workflow is its capability to handle a large variety data. Traditionally SharePoint workflows were mostly focused on handling SharePoint data in the form of list items and documents. However, it is not an uncommon need to deal with back-end systems, issuing tasks that may take days to complete. So what do you do? You put your workflow to sleep and get it to wake up when stuff happened. The only difficulty is that in SharePoint 2007 you can only be notified of changes to SharePoint data. Waking up is not so easy after all! In the real world, this means that you relay communication through hidden lists. In SharePoint 2010 this is going to change in a profound way. You will be able to extend the workflow runtime with custom External Data Exchange Services, allowing you to relay information and communicate with the workflow using standard Workflow Foundation patterns. Learn how to create these EDEs and the rich features they provide such as operation batching. Expect to see lots of code and demos in this technical session.
3. Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5 great Things to Know
SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best to take advantage of this application as you see the new bells and whistles that come with this product.
4. Creating Data-Centric Composite Applications with SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010 can be used to integrate data from a variety of sources into a single SharePoint composite solution. This session will demonstrate how the Data View Web Part in SharePoint Designer can be used for the task of retrieving data from SharePoint Lists. You will learn about how to conditionally format data. Then you will also see how data in multiple lists can be connected to produce a unified view of related information. That's not all, you will also see how you can make this view editable to commit any data changes back to the data source… All without a single line of code!
5. Upgrading your SharePoint 2007 solutions SharePoint 2010
With SharePoint 2010 a lot will change for developers, but of course you will still want to keep using some of the cool solutions that you built for SharePoint 2007. This session will explain how you can best upgrade the custom code that you wrote using Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2007 to work with Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The session will demonstrate the project upgrade tools, show you the APIs that are involved in migrating and what new APIs you should consider using, and will tell you when you will be bound to have to upgrade your code manually.
6. Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010
Come and learn about the new and improved Web Content Management features for building public facing websites and intranets. This session will discuss the new publishing infrastructure, the improved Content Query Web Part and how to take advantage of the Managed Metadata Service Application for defining and managing taxonomies. Not only can SharePoint websites be XHTML compliant, but they also have the ability to show rich media like streaming.
7. Managing and Sharing Rich Media in SharePoint 2010
From centrally managing and maintaining a shared image library for use in authoring Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, to sharing online video, SharePoint 2010 has a number of new features to manage digital assets. This session will cover the new features, as well as different use cases for them within the enterprise.
