Summary
This chapter leveraged both the Server and Client OMs along with some community based libraries to create a packaged solution that can provide a Project Management rollup site.
The customizations are grouped as follows:
Visual Studio 2010:
Web Part: Used to display both the main project metrics as well as provide a way to view the detailed project status
Timer job: Used to update the metrics on a scheduled basis
Feature receiver: Used to register and unregister the timer job
Browser based configuration:
Configure People Core Results Web Part: Configured to pull the listing of project managers along with custom XSL to enhance the format of the results
This chapter showed how you can:
Aggregate content across site collections using both the search subsystem as well as the regular list APIs to query content
Mix both the server and client code within the same solution in order to build a highly functional and efficient solution, which is critical when pulling content from potentially hundreds...
