Integrating ASP.NET Applications with SharePoint

Jamil Haddadin has an excellent post on how to perform ASP.NET related development with Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services.

However during the development phase and due to the frequent changes we make it’s more efficient to work with the ASP.NET application directly, that will be much easier than the “coding/deploying to SP/testing” cycle you will use if you worked with the VSeWSS.

When you use the method described by Jamil you will find that you will not be able to build the ASP.NET application because of using strongly named class names in “Inhertis” attribute of the Page/Control directives.

To resolve this i don’t add the assembly name part in the “Inherits” attribute i just put the class name like the following

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"

Inherits="MyApp.Portal.Forms.Customers"

  MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.Master" %>



This will allow you to successfully build and run the ASP.NET application, but when it comes to building and deploying to SharePoint, you will have to add the assembly info to the class name as follows 


<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"

Inherits="MyApp.Portal.Forms.Customers, MyApp.Portal, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9f4da00116c38ec5"

MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.Master" %>

so i created this simple add-in that will iterate over all the *.aspx and *.ascx files in your project and inserts or removes the assembly info in the “Inherits” attribute of the Page/Control directives1

so before you deploy to SharePoint just run this add-in and it will take care of everything :)

you can download the add-in from below

Comments

Jamil Haddadin said…
Hi,

Please note that I have recently migrated my blog, so you can find this article here:

http://jamilhaddadin.com/2009/03/04/how-to-develop-custom-asp-net-pages-with-sharepoint-2007-full-tutorial/

Thank you for reference.
August 15, 2011 4:09 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Documentum DQL Query Custom Data Extension For SQL Server Reporting Services

When it comes to Reporting SQL Reporting Services is my favorite choice. SQL Reporting Services has a plenty of data source types but unfortunately Documentum is not one of them, whenever we have to develop some reports based on the data in Documentum we first develop a web service that contains the necessary DQL queries and returns the result in a Data Set, then we create an XML data source that consumes this web service and use it in our reports. Fortunately SQL Reporting Services allows you to extend its data access capabilities by developing a custom data extension (CDE)that retrieves data from your custom data source. I developed a Custom Data Extension for Documentum that allows you to specify a Documentum Repository as a data source and provide your DQL query that will populate your report, I used the Reporting Services SDK Sample (FsiDataExtension) and this Article as starting points You can download the extension from here To install the extension: you have to install the ex...
Read more

Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (12 of N): Collecting Attendees Feedback using Windows Phone 7

Image
You can find a list of the previous tutorial posts here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application… It’s very important to collect the attendees feedback to help us improve the future sessions/events we might organize, we can go ahead and implement this functionality in the RegistrationBooth application. but in this post we will take a different approach, we will implement a Windows Phone 7 application that attendees can use on their phones to submit their feedback. Luckily for us Windows Phone 7 uses Silverlight as its development platform (along with XNA), the Silverlight version on Windows Phone is not the same one as the desktop version, think of this as a compact version that fits the phone capabilities. Before we start creating the phone application, first let’s think how we will bring the data to the phone, in the case of the Silverlight application we used WCF RIA services (DomainService) which provided rich client experience for the Silverlight application, Unfortunate...
Read more

Using taco to create Ionic projects for the Windows platform

Image
Recently Microsoft released Tools for Apache Cordova Command Line Interface (TACO CLI), by using TACO, you can quickly start building awesome Apache Cordova apps really and leave all the plumbing of the different platforms dependencies, plugins, etc. to the tools to take care of. For example the following few commands create a cordova project based on the ionic base template, add the android platform to the project, install the platform requirements, build the app, and run it in the emulator: $ taco create sampleApp --template https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base $ cd sampleApp $ taco platform add android $ taco install-reqs android $ taco build android $ taco emulate android Check the TACO home page of for installation instructions and more information http://taco.tools/ . I ran into a problem when i created a new project based on the ionic base template and tried to run it on a windows 8.1 emulator, to reproduce the issue use the following taco commands to cr...
Read more