Friday, September 23, 2011

Asp.net migration to Sharepoint

ASP.NET web developers who are moving to SharePoint site creation. This article will explain in detail how an ASP.NET webpage developed in Visual Studio can be converted into a SharePoint site. If there is a requirement for a website created in Visual Studio, just the old fashioned way with the code-behind logic and other layers like Data Access and Business Logic, to be converted into a SharePoint site, and still make it work the same way with the same code-behind, you are in the right place. The article here along with the code explains 3 core steps that will help you to transform your ASP.NET Web Application into a SharePoint site. Step1: Add a Web Deployment Project to your website solution that will create a single DLL for the website. This step will give us the code-behind DLL and other dependency DLLs for the website. Step2: Copy the bin folder items (DLLs) into the SharePoint site, and tweak the web configuration file of the SharePoint site to use the copied DLLs. Step3: Open your created SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer and import the web pages from our web application and link it to the appropriate DLLs. Code and detail step by step instructions on code project - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/ASPNET_to_Sharepoint.aspx There are more instructions @ http://aspnet2sp.codeplex.com/ http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/pages/spsmigration.aspx