www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page ii ffirs.indd iiffirs.indd ii 10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page i PROFESSIONAL SHAREPOINT® 2010 CLOUDBASED SOLUTIONS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SharePoint and the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 CHAPTER 2 Using SQL Azure for Business Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 CHAPTER 3 Building a Windows Azure-Based Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 CHAPTER 4 Creating an Aggregated Solution Using Cloud-Based Data . . . . . . . . . 83 CHAPTER 5 Connecting LinkedIn and SharePoint Profi le Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 CHAPTER 6 Using Twitter in Your SharePoint Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 CHAPTER 7 Using Bing Maps in Your SharePoint Business Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 173 CHAPTER 8 Financial Modeling with Excel Services and Windows Azure . . . . . . .205 CHAPTER 9 Creating a Training Application in SharePoint Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 CHAPTER 10 Managing Customer Information in SharePoint Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 CHAPTER 11 Securing Cloud Solutions Using Claims-Based Authentication . . . . .309 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 ffirs.indd iffirs.indd i 10/19/2011 1:20:58 PM10/19/2011 1:20:58 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page ii ffirs.indd iiffirs.indd ii 10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page iii PROFESSIONAL SharePoint ® 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions ffirs.indd iiiffirs.indd iii 10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page iv ffirs.indd ivffirs.indd iv 10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page v PROFESSIONAL SharePoint ® 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions Steve Fox Donovan Follette Girish Raja Paul Stubbs ffirs.indd vffirs.indd v 10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page vi Professional SharePoint® 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-1-118-07657-6 ISBN: 978-1-118-22265-2 (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-118-22967-5 (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-118-22951-4 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Indigo Integrations and does SharePoint consulting exclusively through SharePoint9 11 He writes articles for publication, is a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox, 2010) and a contributing author on Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration (Wrox, 2010) , and is an occasional speaker For the last several years he has been focused on SharePoint, creating and... software that you’ll want to install are as follows: ‰ Windows Server 2008 R2 (or Windows 7) ‰ SQL Server 2008 R2 ‰ Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus ‰ SharePoint Designer 2010 ‰ Visual Studio 2010 Professional ‰ Windows Azure SDK and Tools for Visual Studio ‰ SharePoint Server 2010 For each chapter, you may fi nd that additional software must be installed, or developer keys obtained, to complete the exercises... with their SharePoint installation(s) That said, you will get more out of this book if you’re a SharePoint developer who has had at least six month’s experience with SharePoint You should also have some understanding of ASP.NET and broader web-development technologies If you’re looking for an introduction to SharePoint, you might want to check out Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox, 2010) or... but also what it means to integrate the cloud with SharePoint We’ll focus predominantly on SharePoint on-premises (or SharePoint Server 2010) , but you’ll see there are many lessons that can be applied to SharePoint 2007 or, in some cases, to SharePoint Online (within the new Office 365 offering) WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is primarily aimed towards SharePoint developers, IT pros, or enthusiasts who... Page xxix PROFESSIONAL SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions www.it-ebooks.info flast.indd xxix 10/19/2011 1:21:30 PM Fox flast.indd V4 - 10/13/2011 Page xxx www.it-ebooks.info flast.indd xxx 10/19/2011 1:21:30 PM Fox c01.indd V2 - 10/11/2011 Page 1 1 Getting Started with SharePoint and the Cloud WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER? ‰ Understanding the cloud and its importance ‰ Integrating the cloud with SharePoint. .. consume it in your SharePoint applications using BCS ‰ Chapter 4: Creating an Aggregated Solution Using Cloud-Based Data — Describes how to decouple Internet data sources from your SharePoint application to easily locate, query, and manipulate cloud-based data through a composite application that uses SharePoint, Yahoo Pipes, and Yahoo Query Language ‰ Chapter 5: Connecting LinkedIn and SharePoint Profile... Web 2.0 and shows you how to extend SharePoint s social computing capabilities to integrate with LinkedIn ‰ Chapter 6: Using Twitter in Your SharePoint Solutions — Provides an overview of how to use the Twitter REST APIs and then walks through how to create a simple trend report using Twitter data for SharePoint ‰ Chapter 7: Using Bing Maps in Your SharePoint Business Solutions — Describes how you can... the Director of Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) for SharePoint and Windows Azure He regularly speaks to developers about SharePoint, Office, and cloud development, at both domestic and international conferences Steve has authored many articles and books, including Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox, 2010) and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications on Windows Azure (MSPress, 2011)... 21 21 Uses of SQL Azure Migrating SQL Server to SQL Azure Interacting with SQL Azure with SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio BI Solutions Using SQL Azure No-Code BI Solutions in SharePoint Code-Based Solutions in SharePoint Creating a BI Dashboard Using SQL Azure and SharePoint The Solution Architecture Creating the Sales BI Application Creating the SQL Azure Database Creating an External List Creating... building integrated line-of-business (LOB) solutions with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010 GIRISH RAJA is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft’s Redmond campus In this role, Girish helps the community learn various development features of SharePoint and provides guidance for building applications using its platform He also works on demonstrating how well SharePoint integrates with other Microsoft . does SharePoint consulting exclusively through SharePoint9 11. He writes articles for publication, is a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox, 2010) . Management Studio 23 BI Solutions Using SQL Azure 25 No-Code BI Solutions in SharePoint 25 Code-Based Solutions in SharePoint 26 Creating a BI Dashboard Using SQL Azure and SharePoint 27 The Solution. PM10/19/2011 1:20:59 PM www.it-ebooks.info Fox  rs.indd V3 - 10/11/2011 Page vi Professional SharePoint 2010 Cloud-Based Solutions Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis,