In this post, we will leverage the custom service application infrastructure and solution we put together in the last 4 posts to enhance the service application with new features and capabilities. The sample feature we will add is an integration between SharePoint and MailChimp, enabling sites to synchronize a contacts list to a MailChimp list.
.net, C#, MailChimp, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint, wcf
In this post we explore how to configure various aspects of a SharePoint 2010 service application. This includes building some customizations in the application pages and extending the service application with powershell scripts. It is really up to your imagination when it comes to what you want to include and how you want to manage your service app, SharePoint gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility when it comes to these things.
.net, admin, C#, mycorp, powershell, sharepoint
In this post, we are going to explore the guts of our custom service application, expect lots of code in this post. As I mentioned in my first post in this series, the goal of this Service Application development exercise is to build an infrastructure within SharePoint 2010 for your company to add value to your SharePoint investment, by exposing 3rd party and custom capabilities and features to your farm(s) in a scalable and maintainable way.
C#, isv, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint
In this post we explore the essential components that make up a service application and the relationships between them: servers, services, service proxies, service instances, service applications, service application proxies, and load-balancers. In addition to these core components, we will also explore adding job definitions and databases to the mix.
load balancing, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint
In this series, we will explore what it takes to build and manage a custom service application in SharePoint 2010. The most attractive reason to me for building a service application is to logically bundle a set of services and/or capabilities provided by in-house and 3rd party applications and systems within the SharePoint infrastructure.
.net, C#, integration, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint
Up till now in my SharePoint 2010 projects, I’ve been using the very nice SharePoint Service Locator implementation, from the patterns & practices group. This has been really useful, and works great. If you’re not familiar with the service locator pattern, you can read up on it here. Using this pattern, it’s easy to build a lightweight common library that you pass out to your team (or as is often the case “teams”) of developers without them having to mess around with the implementation of every interface.
.net, autofac, di, ioc, sharepoint