Al Pascual

Creating a SharePoint Web Part Step by Step

This is the first time I develop for SharePoint, something that I wanted for a while, yet never got a project to do so. I have been a SharePoint user for many years, normally because all companies I have worked they use it as their document repository, “link provider”.

There are a few steps that are difficult to remember in order to create get a developed webpart installed and running, so I created a list for me to follow, best place to add it is my blog.

I would recommend the book “Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0” I found it very useful as well as very well written, Daniel Larson is a great technical writer.

A new book from this him is coming up in November 24^th “Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform” I can share with you that I read it, many times, and now is my favorite book of 2008.

Going back to SharePoint, below the simple steps to develop a webpart for SharePoint 2007.

Step by Step

1. Create a new project class library, inherit the controls from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebPart
2. Each control you create needs to overrride the method Render: protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
3. Create a snk file and compile the dll.
4. Install the dll into the computers GAC by dragging it to c:\windows\assembly
5. On the Sharepoint web.config add a new SafeControl tag
6. Then on Sharepoint as administrator go to Galleries and add a new webpart.

Now any user will be able to use the webpart.

Related posts

Walkthough from MSDN

Gu's release

Tam Tam Weblog tutorial

Cheers

Al