Creating sustainable solutions is always daunting, whether you are a single developer or working as a member in a large team. Every type of project requires a specific approach, there are no silver bullets. Still, there are some considerations you should make with every new SharePoint development project to ensure proper developer workflow and the delivery of maintainable solutions. In this session we will look at several new tools and topics around SharePoint 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2012 and how you can use them to enhance your development projects. Topics covered: • The correct SharePoint solution type • Solution Lifecycle Management • TFS supported development • Quality Assurance

1. Creating sustainable solutions
with SharePoint 2013
Yuri Burger

2. About
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3. Contact
@yuriburger
yurib@delta-n.nl
http://yuriburger.net

4. What to expect
• Approaches for creating sustainable
solutions
• Application Lifecycle Management:
introduction for SharePoint developers
• Demo

5. Product Lifecycle
Sales
Sustainability
Time

6. Sustainable Solutions?
• Maximize product revenue
• Business-driven
• Sustainable, not durable

7. Sustainable VS Durable
Durability (“Houdbaarheid”) is the ability to
resist changes.
Sustainability (“Duurzaamheid”) is the ability
to embrace changes by renewal,
maintenance and improvements.

8. Choices

9. The right type

10. Solution Types
Farm • On Premise Intranet
• Timer Jobs, Site Definitions
• Deprecated, but supported in SP2013
Sandbox • Intranet artefacts e.g.
• JS, .Net Managed, Silverlight
Client OM • Server Object Model subset
App • No server side SharePoint code
• Isolation (App Web, Hosted)

11. Roadmap
2007 2010 2013

12. What makes an App?
• Apps for SharePoint are solutions
designed to extend SharePoint sites with
specific functionality.
• Users should be able to discover Apps
through the SharePoint Store or the
Company App Catalog.

13. Display options
• “Immersive” or full page
• An App Part (also known as Client Web
Part)
• UI Custom Action (Ribbon buttons or ECB)

14. Deployment options
SharePoint • Client side code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• SharePoint Workflow (via JSOM)
Hosted • Data stored in SharePoint Lists and Libraries
Provider • Windows Azure / IIS + ASP.Net / other
• Client Object Model, REST
Hosted • Data stored in SQL Azure / other
• SharePoint Online + Windows Azure (Lite)
Auto Hosted • Client Object Model, REST
• Data stored in SQL Azure

15. SharePoint 2013 Apps
SharePoint Hosted App
&
Provider Hosted App
Demo

16. Apps pitfalls
So it’s all cool, right?
• V1.0
• Focus on (SharePoint) Online
• Fits specific functionality
• Authentication
• From C# to JavaScript

17. Apps benefits
• V1.0
• App logica outside of SharePoint (“off
box”)
• On-premise, Online, Hybrid
• Single code base
• Apps are where your users are

18. Solution Lifecycle Management

19. Product Lifecycle
Sales
Time

20. Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a
continuous process of managing the life of
an application through governance,
development and maintenance. ALM is the
marriage of business management to
software engineering made possible by
tools that facilitate and integrate
requirements management, architecture,
coding, testing, tracking, and release
management.

21. Modern Apps require a modern
Lifecycle

22. Do you currently have the tools to
support this?

23. Tools

24. SharePoint 2013 App Model
Apps have a modern lifecycle with
continious improvements at their center:
• Feedback and ratings
• Focus on quality
• High update frequency

25. Minimal requirements
• Collaboration (version control)
• Change Management (work item mgmt)
• Feedback Management
• Quality Management (autom. Unit tests)
• Delivery Managment (controlled builds)

26. Recognize this?

27. Source: Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Product Flyer

28. SharePoint 2013 App Development
with
Team Foundation Server 2012
Demo

29. Demo scenario
• 2 developers
• Publish an App in the SharePoint Store
• Aquire feedback
• Implement the new feature
• Release the updated product

30. Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Service
• Microsoft’s Cloud Offering voor TFS
• Gratis beschikbaar tot 5 gebruikers
Team Foundation Server Express
• On Premise
• Gratis beschikbaar tot 5 gebruikers
Team Foundation Server
• On Premise of hosted (3rd party)
• Licensing: Server + CAL

31. Take away
• There is an App for THAT!
• Add SharePoint 2013 Apps to your skillset
• Design sustainable solutions
• Solution Lifecycle Management is an
important tool to create healthy solutions
and ditto revenue

32. Thanks for listening!