Setup

Task 1 – Create SharePoint Site

In this task, you will create a sub site for this lab in your SharePoint on-premise site.

  1. Navigate to your top-level SharePoint site, e.g., https://intranet.contoso.com.
  2. From Site Actions, choose New Site.
  3. Choose the Team Site template.
  4. Enter Lab02 for the name of the site to create.
    1. The site will be created at https://intranet.contoso.com/Lab02.
  5. Click Create to create the site.

Task 2 – Create SharePoint Online Site

In this task, you will create a sub site for this lab in your SharePoint Online site.

  1. Navigate to your top-level SharePoint Online site, e.g., https://contoso.sharepoint.com.
  2. From Site Actions, choose New Site.
  3. Choose the Team Site template.
  4. Enter Lab02 for the name of the site to create.
    1. The site will be created at https://contoso.sharepoint.com/Lab02.
  5. Click Create to create the site.
    Note:
    You have to be an administrator on your SharePoint Online website to perform the tasks in this lab, e.g., creating and publishing a SharePoint Designer workflow to the SharePoint Online site.

Task 3 – Prepare Code Snippets

This lab contains code snippets that you will use to complete the solution. You can either copy the snippets from the lab script itself or install the code snippets so that you can access them directly from Visual Studio.

  1. Browse to C:\%Office365TrainingKit%\Assets\Code Snippets\CSharp.
  2. Select all the files in this directory and copy them to your clipboard by pressing [Ctrl]+[a] and then [Ctrl]+[c].
  3. Browse to ..\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets
  4. Press [Ctrl]+[v] to paste the code snippet files into this directory.
    Note:
    To reduce typing, you can right-click where you want to insert source code, select Insert Snippet, select My Code Snippets and then select the entry matching the current exercise step.

Task 4 – Create Visual Studio Toolbox Snippets

Some code snippets that are used in this lab can’t be formatted as Visual Studio snippets. Instead you will create them as text snippets in the Visual Studio Toolbox.

  1. Open Visual Studio 2010.
  2. Open the Toolbox.
  3. Add a tab called Lab02.
  4. Browse to C:\%Office365TrainingKit%\Assets\Code Snippets.
  5. From Visual Studio, open Demo2_1_1.txt and select all its contents.
  6. Drag the contents into the Lab02 tab.
  7. Rename the item to 2.1.1.