This is a presentation about Sanboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010.

1. Salman Ghani (MCPD SharePoint 2010, MCTS MOSS)
5th October 2011
SANDBOXED SOLUTIONS

2. Agenda
 Introduction to Sandboxed Solutions
 What can be achieved?
 What is good?
 Limitations
 Implementation
 Development
 Deployment
 Debugging options
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3. Introduction to Sandboxed
Solutions
 A new concept in SharePoint 2010 for rapid
deployments of solutions.
 A sandbox is a restricted execution environment
that enables programs to access only certain
resources, and that keeps problems that occur in
the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server
environment.
 This is as simple as uploading a solution to
solutions library.
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4. What can be achieved?
 Can access all classes under SPSite, SPWeb, SPList and
SPListItem
 Can create
 web parts
 list definitions and list instances
 content types and fields
 modules
 workflows
 event receivers
 Can read and write to the lists and libraries within same
site collection
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5. What is Good?
 Easy Deployment / Upgrade
 Activate / Deactivate Solutions
 No Server Reset
 Ideal for demonstration purpose on live environments
(Good for the business case)
 Good for developers
 Farm administrator can monitor and validate solutions
 Easily convert to Farm solution
 Can be deployed by site collection administrators
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6. Limitations
 No code with elevate permissions
 Cannot use visual web parts
 No access to internet to make web service calls
 No access to hard drive for read/write files
 Cannot access code that is not marked for partially
trusted callers
 No deployments to GAC
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7. SANDBOXED SOLUTIONS
IMPLEMENTATION

8. Development of Sandboxed
 Support in Visual Studio
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9. Develop
 IntelliSense Support
 No error messages if use wrong classes
 Instead run time exceptions
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10. Deployment
 Just upload to the solutions library (Solutions library
per site collections)
 Activate the solution
 Easy Upgrade
 Deactivate
 Remove
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11. Debugging
 Code runs under sandboxed worker process
 Debug against SPUCWorkerProcess.exe
 Debug rest of the page against w3wp.exe
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12. Load Balancing for Sandboxed
 Local load balancing
 The sandboxed solution runs on the same server that
received the request
 Remote load balancing
 The server that the sandboxed solution runs on is selected
based on solution affinity, and the sandboxed solution is run
on a server where it is already loaded and has already been
run. This saves time in servicing the request for the solution.
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13. Resources
 Sandboxed solutions overview (Technet)
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721992.aspx
 Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring Sandboxed
Solutions
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335711.aspx
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14. THANK YOU