Transcript SESSION CODE: OFS312 Ed Richard Managing Director E-Agility v-TSP Microsoft EXTENDING VISIO TO ENABLE A BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING SOLUTION IN SHAREPOINT (c) 2011 Microsoft.

SESSION CODE: OFS312
Ed Richard
Managing Director
E-Agility
v-TSP
Microsoft
EXTENDING VISIO TO ENABLE A BUSINESS
PROCESS MODELLING SOLUTION IN
SHAREPOINT
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Agenda
High on demo and code this time
► Setting the scene
– Why are doing this?
► What will we achieve?
– What are we building
► How
– How it all fits together
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The Cinderella principle
► http://visio.microsoft.com/enus/FeaturesAndCapabilities/Connect/Pages/Cind
erella_Visio_2010.aspx?vid=6&vlist=Video
Lib&vweb=/en-us
► Play
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A Bit of history
The story starts in 2009
► Great improvements to Visio 2010
► Introduction of Visio Services
► Business Process Modeling and Continuous
improvement processes
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A Bit of history
The story starts in 2009
► Because seeing is understanding
► Great improvements to Visio 2010
► Introduction of Visio Services
► Business Process Modeling and Continuous
improvement processes
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Demo 1
An example of a solution in SharePoint
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Demo 2
Extending the solution into Visio
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How: Extending the Ribbon
Add-ins tab and more
► Visual Studio 2010 and VSTO
► Visual design
► Code behind and deployment
– Click once publishing, why this is crucial
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Exposing SharePoint data
Web Service – Client Object Model
► Communicating with SharePoint
► A comparison, WSDL versus Linq
► a-Sync data reading
– A pattern that works for Silverlight and .Net
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Exposing SharePoint data
Web Service
► Demo of some code
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Exposing SharePoint data
Client Object Model – How to
► Pattern
► Linq
► a-Sync
– Demo and Code walkthrough
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Extending the backstage view
► The components of the Backstage view
► A Code walkthrough
– Reading and displaying
data
• From Visio
• From SharePoint
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Shape data items
The key to caching and storing
► Linking Shapes to context
– A quick demo of linking data to shapes to recap
– Defining new data items
– Small detour – templates and stencils
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Shape data items
Accessing from Visio Services
► Access to context for rendering
► Code walkthrough - JavaScript
var shapeData = shape.getShapeData();
var c = "Status Not Found";
for (var j=0; j<shapeData.length; j++)
{
if (shapeData[j].label.toLowerCase().indexOf("status") !=-1)
{
c = shapeData[j].value.toLowerCase();
}
}
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Enterprise Content types
Using SharePoint for hosting templates
► Means to an end
– Use this to tie the Enterprise architecture to Visio
• Another demo!
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