Join me in a Birds of a SharePoint Feather session at PDC

Thursday, August 4, 2005

Stuart Celarier posted a blog (thanks Amanda!) about the Birds of a Feather sessions at PDC and was looking for submissions, ideas, and volunteers. I decided I would step up and offer to host a session, assuming there's interest from you, the community (oh yeah, you need to be there to participate to get the full effect, as if you hadn't clued in yet). As I spent the last 6 months building a 100,000 line custom business app on top of SharePoint I thought it would be appropriate to take a deep dive into doing something like this and the challenges and agonies of completely building a custom business solution on SharePoint. Here's the submission:

Submitter Name:	Bil Simser
Email:	bsimser@shaw.ca
Company:	MVP
Session Title:	Custom Business Solutions in SharePoint
Session Level:	400
Session Abstract:	This session will dive deep down into the heart of SharePoint development and building custom solutions on top of, around, and inside of the SharePoint Object Model.

It'll be pretty techie (techy?) with lots of whiteboard diagrams of layers and tiers and abstractions oh my. Anyways, if you think this might be interesting feel free to vote for it if/when it appears on the site here. Also as this is informal (we'll have a whiteboard but no PowerPoint or laptop) we'll just wander around and see where it takes us. I'm planning to demonstrate and discuss some of the more typical challenges of working with SharePoint development, designing business solutions from a Domain perspective and keeping your Domain Model clean, NUnit testing with SharePoint, development environment woes while keeping your codebase cleanly separated from the SharePoint OM, and other good stuff (still just thinking it through in my head how it would go). If anything it'll be a fun hour or so or at least give you a reason for you to hit the bars early.

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