Graded Exercise

Julien Dollon

M1 Labs
Academic Year – 2009 – 2010

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is a free add-on to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 providing a fully functionalweb portal.
Installation of WSS on a server makes available the complete object model and APIs underpinning Microsoft SharePoint technology. This includes a collection of web parts that can beembedded into web pages to provide SharePoint functionality such as dashboards, document workspaces, lists, alerts, calendaring, contact lists, discussion boards, and wikis in a custom web site.
WSS isprovided as a free download from Microsoft for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later and is added to the Microsoft .NET Framework. WSS is only provided for Microsoft servers and cannot be deployedon any other OS. WSS 3 downloads includes the core package and a set of « Application Templates » to add functionality to the basic installation.
WSS technologies are at the core of several ofMicrosoft’s commercial portal technologies. Specifically, WSS 3 underlies Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), and WSS 2 was the framework beneath SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

You are adeveloper for a company which used WSS for the intranet. Your mission is to improve the native home page of this intranet.

In the home page, you have to develop:
* Two interconnected custom web part:
* The first one will display the list of customers stored in the Northwind database into a ListBox/DropDownList
* The second one will display the selected customer’s list of orders.* A custom web part who allow us to:
* Create a new list of announcements
* Add, update and delete items in this list
* Display the content of the list
* Create a newworkflow using Visual Studio which will be attached to a document library and will add a new announce if the document name contains the word “SUPINFO”

Technologies are:
* WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007…