First Look Clinic: What's New for Developers in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

•Summarize the key features of the SharePoint 2013 application development platform.

This module provides a deeper understanding of apps for SharePoint and introduces client-side and server-side, and hybrid App architectures. For each type of App, the module describes the components, languages, and technologies you can use to build the app and highlights key new concepts developers must understand.

•SharePoint-Hosted Apps

•Cloud-Hosted Apps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Explain what a SharePoint-Hosted app is.

•Describe how to build a SharePoint-Hosted app.

•Explain what a Cloud-Hosted app is.

•Describe how to build a Cloud-Hosted app.

This module introduces apps for Office and describes how SharePoint developers can use them to interact with Office document content and enrich user productivity. Students will see the different types of apps for Office in Word, Excel, and Outlook and understand how apps for Office are written and published in public and corporate catalogs. apps for Office are desktop application extensions but represent an important new technology that the SharePoint developer can use in SharePoint development.

•What is apps for Office?

•Apps for Office Types

•Apps for Office Catalogs

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe how developers extend Office Application user interfaces by creating apps for Office of different types and publishing them in different catalogs.

•Describe how to use Task Pane apps for Office.

•Describe how to create and code simple apps for Office that interacts with document content.

This module introduces some of the new and updated services available in SharePoint 2013 farms. The module concentrates on those services that provide rich functionality that developers can reuse in their apps and on those services that have large improvements or new capabilities in SharePoint 2013. These include Managed Metadata Services, Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management, Social Networking, and Search.

•Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management

•Social Networking

•Search

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Describe improvements in Manage Metadata Services, Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management in SharePoint 2013.

•Describe how to use Design Manager to import a Look and Feel.

•Describe the new social networking functionality available to SharePoint 2013 App developers.

•Describe how the new capabilities of the SharePoint Search engine can be used in apps for SharePoint.

•Describe how to query the Index from a SharePoint-Hosted App using CSOM.