I am looking at using Sharepoint as a CMS for my WPF application, I was hoping to create some kind of a repository and access that using .NET web services. The repository would simply be some images and perhaps some meta-data about the images (name, description, etc...)
Im am stuck to Sharepoint, so another system is not really an option.
Does anyone have any links or experience with this?
Im not a newbie to Sharepoint, I just cannot find anything on what versions to use, if I need plugins, security, how to go about it in general.
You can do this with the free version of SharePoint (SharePoint Foundation, formerly Windows SharePoint Services) that comes with Windows Server--no plugins required.
If you simply want to store the images in SharePoint you can upload them to a Document Library via a web service call. If you want to be able to view the images directly in SharePoint use a Picture Library instead. As you can see in the list of SharePoint 3.0 web services you can work with both Document and Picture Libraries. You could even have the WPF application create the libraries if need be.
As Henrico points out in Storing Images on Sharepoint you'll want to consider whether to store the image file itself in SharePoint or have the file elsewhere and use SharePoint to store the path. His post also points out some other considerations on storing images in SharePoint. Note that his post refers to using SharePoint directly, but the same considerations apply.
I'm not sure what to say about security, since SharePoint supports authorization and authentication with its normal web interface and with web services.
I once used a hosted version of SharePoint to store PDFs uploaded from a command line application that were then viewed by a separate application. It worked great for my needs.
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Context: I have a web application written in Python using Flask. I need to embed some reporting utility in the application and would like to use SSRS.
Question: I've investigated a few MSDN resources including the following:
(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-server-sharepoint/add-the-report-viewer-web-part-to-a-web-page?view=sql-server-ver15)
It appears that this route would require implementing Sharepoint. Is this true? Is there any way to embed SSRS reports in webpages without needing to use Sharepoint?
Sharepoint is definitely not required. But there are different options with different tradeoffs.
Simplest is to add rs:embed=true to a report URL and load it in an iframe, which works great if your users can authenticate to SSRS using Windows Integrated Auth. This doc details how to embed into SharePoint using this technique, but it works equally well for any custom app, so long as the user can authenticate to SSRS.
Other options are outlined here: Integrating Reporting Services into Applications
The most useful one is SSRS URL Access.
I need a cloud database as a back-end for a mobile app, most of them will do what I need, but I also need a management interface (ideally web-based, but could be a Windows client) that makes it easy to:
Add/edit data in the database (including cross-table forms)
Report on the database, ideally with dashboards/charts
So I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a web-based too that can be hooked up to one of the main cloud-database providers, that allows me to design forms and reports to manage the data in the database. My goal is to avoid writing all the forms and reports myself so I can focus efforts on the client mobile app.
Right now my "best" solution appears to be Microsoft Access (probably hooked up to Microsoft SQL Azure), and I cannot believe I'd have to sink that low. Save me from this depravity? Please? :)
I've been using SDBNavigator. It's a Chrome browser plugin. Works like a charm.
"SDB Navigator on the Chrome web store"
The App Engine datastore has built in datastore viewers (and editors). On the dev_appserver, this is accessible at /_ah/admin/datastore, and in production it's accessible through your app's admin console. Neither one lets you build forms and reports, though - reports are somewhat out of scope for most NoSQL databases.
If you're prepared to do some coding, you might want to consider Django, which makes constructing admin interfaces extremely straightforward.
If you're using SimpleDB, check out sdbtool. It's a Firefox plugin. Very simple app - never had a problem with it.
You can use SDB Explorer. SDB Explorer is world leading GUI to explore Amazon SimpleDB. It have many features like --
Upload My Sql data to amazon simpledb.
Supports interface for AWS IAM.
Export Domain.
Product support.
See more .. http://www.sdbexplorer.com/
I have developed a PDF Converter / Viewer for Windows Phone 7, but it is rather useless unless it can get the source files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) from somewhere.
An obvious place to get these files from is the Office hub on the phone, but there doesn't appear to be a documented way to access these files programmatically. I can only access my own application's files using IsolatedStorage.
Alternatively I would like to extend the functionality of the Office Hub with an extra button to convert a file, but I am not sure this is possible either.
Naturally I can retrieve files from a SharePoint Server, but I prefer not to do this unless I absolutely have to. Alternatively is there a way to map my application to a file extension so email attachments can be loaded into it?
Any brilliant ideas? How does the official PDF Viewer from Acrobat deal with this?
I'm afraid it's not possible using the SDK to accomplish any of these ideas for files stored on the phone.
The closest to load a pdf / office document from an app into the corresponding Adobe or Office application is to publish the documents on a server and link to them through a web page shown from your app. This probably doesn't suit your requirements though.
The official one does this utilising capabilities not available through the 3rd party SDK that we use.
I need to get information from Microsoft Outlooks calendar to show it on calendar application which I made with Silverlight.
I can get all needed information with Silverlight 4 but in trusted mode and my application must be installed on users computer and work as Desctop application.
But I need for my application to work on browser.
Is it possible or the only way is using it as Desctop application?
Thanks.
No, you can't. The best that you can do is to create a web service to communicate with Silverlight and then an Outlook add-in to communicate with that web service.
I did it with WebDav server. I published my calndar to WebDav server. Calendar is on .ics format so I can read all information from it as with other files and then parse it.
My WCF service is on the same computer in which is WebDav so I can get all needed information with Silverlight. I decided to use this version because in this case user have no need to install .Net freamework on his computer. I also found that user can publish his calendar from internet so this version do what I need.
#Otaku thanks for your answer, it was very nice solution and it is the best version for people who can't(or don't want) use WebDav.
Here is how to publish it.
EDIT: In this case calendar opens as readonly because it located on server and cannot be synchronized with existing calendar without add-in, so #Otaku's answer is right.
My version can be used if you don't need synchronization.
I am currently getting myself up to speed with SharePoint 2010 and I am working my way through the different way SharePoint can expose silverlight applications.
As I understand it, the client object model is more restricted, and is for other applications to interact with SharePoint via WCF for example. An example would be a custom build system that retrieves reference data from SharePoint lists.
The server object model provides more functionality in SharePoint. One example is code written for a web part.
I have been told to deploy a silverlight application, you create the xap, make it accessible by SharePoint web front end, create a silverlight web part and point to it.
So, my question is, assuming what I have previously mentioned is more-or-less the case, can SharePoint access the server object model or is it the same as an external system for example, and uses the client object model?
I am learning all of this so happy to receive feedback on anything I may have not understood correctly.
You would access the client object model from Silverlight. Silverlight is a client. It runs in the user's browser, so it is not on the server, and therefore cannot access the server's features except via service calls. The client object model will provide you direct integration with various lists and functions, and makes it very easy to integrate.
Check out this video for more:
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/SilverlightClientObjectModel/