SharePoint 2013 – Fun with SharePoint Social, CSOM and Windows 8

SPC207

Mark Rackley – Summit 7 SystemsEric Harlan - Microsoft

AgendaWhat are we going to build!?Lets start at the end

What is Social?News feeds/Replies/Likes/Oh My

Client Side Object Model (CSOM) OverviewCSOM Social Features

Win RT OverviewYay! New quirks to learn

Demo - Lets build this thingTop to bottom with all the roadblocks and common mistakes

Demo – How it worksYes Sir, you in the back

What is Social in 2013(its not all sharing photos and wasting company time)

LikesRatingsFeedsReputation Mentions

Social Social SocialWhat’s it all mean man!?

• Microfeed posts can be “liked” by all. Likes in community sites and conversations are restricted in view

• Community Site rolls up content• @Mentions drop down selection is populated by the users

followed and users in profile database. Think federated.• Company feeds are micro blogging feeds for Noobs!

Social

LikesRatingsFeedsReputation Mentions

FollowsSitesUsersDocumentsRecommends

Social Social SocialWhat’s it all mean man!?

• New Site Definitions specifically for community driven site• Discussion boards gain functionality that mirrors dedicated BB

softwareReputation settings, best answer roll up, report abuse, etc

• Discussion roll ups by popularity, title and most popularLikes vs Star rating (5 being best!)

• Following a site is like favoriting a tweet, or book marking • Track your “Clout” aka Reputation • Achievement Levels/Badges• New Recommended Content web part – you may like….. From

Search Analytics

Social

LikesRatingsFeedsReputation Mentions

FollowsSitesUsersDocumentsRecommends

Social Social SocialWhat’s it all mean man!?

MicroFeedsAppFabric

• Microfeeds• We’re all GUIDs at heart. • Consolidated View web part reads directly from AppFabric Cache• Performance unaffected when viewing up to date AppFabric Cache from

memory• AppFabric• Think of it as State Memory for Social interactions• AppFabric Cache is NOT persistent, once cycled feeds are lost

• What is in the activity gatherer?• Now Following, Tagging, Note board posts, Status updates 10 mins

Social

CSOM

• Allows development that runs outside of the SharePoint Server using Web Services

• Introduced in SharePoint 2010• Greatly expanded upon in SharePoint 2013• Can now utlize REST and oData• New libraries (for stuff like Social!)

CSOM Overview

• CSOM in SharePoint 2010CSOM Overview

• CSOM in SharePoint 2013CSOM Overview

• We still have our old friends• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client• Microsoft.SharePoint.ClientRuntime

• But with social we have a new buddy for social!• *Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles

• And a few more new friends as well• *Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.DocumentManagement• *Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing• *Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy

*In SharePoint Server

CSOM in SharePoint 2013

• CSOM still works the same way• Create Context• Build request• Execute Query

• But now we can do even more!• SocialFeedManager – Get Feeds• Everyone, Likes, News, Personal, Timeline

• SocialFollowingManager – Get Followed Content• Sites, Users, Documents, Tags

• SocialActor• User, Site, Document, or Tag

• SocialPost• Text, Attachments, LikerInfo

CSOM in SharePoint 2013

CSOM in SharePoint 2013Example query (Get Newsfeed)

//create the client contextClientContext cc = new ClientContext("http://portal.contoso.com");cc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

//prepare your querySocialFeedManager sfm = new SocialFeedManager(cc);SocialFeedOptions feedOptions;feedOptions = new SocialFeedOptions();ClientResult<SocialFeed> feed = sfm.GetFeed(SocialFeedType.News, feedOptions);

//execute querysfm.Context.ExecuteQuery();

WIN RT

• Cross-platform application architecture on the Windows 8 operating system.

• WinRT applications natively support both the x86 and ARM architectures

• C#, VB.NET, and JavaScript (also C++/CX)• Runs inside a sandboxed environment to allow

for greater security and stability

Win RT Overview

WIN RT & JavaScript

• JavaScript can be used in Windows Store Apps• HTML5/CSS3 supported• jQuery works well• New Controls in WinJS • Control List - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465453.aspx

• Able to access Windows Runtime Component libraries (C#, VB, or C++)• JavaScript files cannot be referenced externally• Can’t create new windows, can’t resize or move

existing windows• Methods such as alert, prompt, open, moveBy, moveTo, resizeBy, and resizeTo won’t

work

Win RT & JavaScript

• Script “injection” is not allowed• “toStaticHTML” filters HTML injected into the page• Affects the following properties and methods• createContextualFragment• innerHTML and outerHTML• insertAdjacentHTML• pasteHTML• document.write and document.writeln• DOMParser.parseFromString

• Also affects some Elements, Attributes, and CSS properties

Making HTML safer: details for toStaticHTML (Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML) (Windows) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465388.aspx

Win RT & JavaScript

Demo – How we do it.Scalpel.. Clamps.. Sutures… and a lot of Duct Tape

Additional Resources

• How to: Read and write to the social feed using the .NET client object model in SharePoint 2013• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163977(v=office.15).aspx

• Creating Windows Runtime Components in C# and VB• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br230301.aspx

• Walkthrough: Creating a simple component in C# or VB and calling it from JavaScript• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh779077.aspx

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