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    Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint

    • Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint

    • By: ;

    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

    • Last Updated: 21-MAR-2013

    • Pub. Date:

    • Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2083-6

    • Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-2083-6

    • Pages in Print Edition: 450

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    Overview

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    Create dynamic business intelligence (BI) solutions for SharePoint, using Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch, SQL Server 2012, and other tools and technologies. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn the entire process, from high-level concepts, to low-code development and deployment, to setup and configuration.

    Table of Contents

     

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    Cover

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    Preface
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    Why you really need to read this book...

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    Business application components

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    The example

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    Chapter 1
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    So what does all this have to do with business intelligence?

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    Chapter 2
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    Technology Selection Goals

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    Solution Components

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    Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012

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    SharePoint Server 2010-2013

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    SharePoint Development Past, Present and Future
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    Farm Solutions - SharePoint 2007

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    Sandbox Solutions and CSOM - SharePoint 2010

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    The Cloud App Model with Apps for SharePoint - SharePoint 2013

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    Our Strategy

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    SQL Server 2012 for Business Intelligence

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    Summary

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    Chapter 3

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    Normalization
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    First Normal Form - Stop repeating yourself

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    Second Normal Form - The Whole Key

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    Third Normal Form - Nothing but the Key

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    Bringing it all together

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    Many to Many Relationships

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    Summary

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    Chapter 4
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    Traditional SharePoint Development is hard

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    Custom development is tedious

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    Build Custom Apps, Coding Optional

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    Chapter 5
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    Defining Basic Fields and Data Types

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    Using the Properties Window

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    Enhancing a String with a Choice List

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    Setting Default Values

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    Adding Relationships

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    Business Types

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    Defining Uniqueness

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    Practice what we just learned

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    Calculated Computed Properties

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    Summary

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    Chapter 6

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    Creating Screens
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    Using Read-Only Controls

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    Displaying Related Fields

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    Launching the application for the first time

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    Creating a Modal Window

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    Summary

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    Chapter 7
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    Change tracking in LightSwitch

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    Factoring out repeated logic

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    Customizing the Add and Edit Buttons

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    Designing Running Screens

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    Creating a custom details Page

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    Custom Validation

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    Summary

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    Chapter 8
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    Enabling Authentication - Windows or Forms

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    Adding a Welcome Message using our ViewModel
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    Adding a Query to the Model

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    Add the Query to the Screen (ViewModel)

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    Binding to Query Parameters

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    Summary

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    Chapter 9
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    The LightSwitch runtime experience

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    The LightSwitch Grid Control
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    Sorting

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    Export to Excel

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    Search
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    What's really happening between our client and the server?

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    Running as a web application

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    Summary

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    Chapter 10
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    Logical SharePoint Architecture

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    Adding a SharePoint Data Source
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    Relating to SharePoint Data

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    Populating the Knowledge Base

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    Summary

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    Chapter 11
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    The Application Designer

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    The Publishing Wizard
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    What kind of application do you want to deploy?

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    Where will the application's services be hosted?

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    Remotely publish the app, or just package it for now?

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    Do you need an SSL certificate?

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    How will you deploy your database?

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    Should LightSwitch create an application administrator account?

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    Specify any other connection information

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    Signing your code

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    Ready to Deploy

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    Deploying your packages to the server
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    A first look at the database

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