Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 2.4: Mashing SharePoint Web Services

This is the ninth in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

This section provides 2 examples of publishing a SharePoint Web Service with Presto, using Wires to Virtualize the Web Service and create a Mashup, and finally to expose the Mashup as a Mashlet. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 2.3: SharePoint Web Services

This is the eigth in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

Presto version 2.6.1 or later is capable of consuming SharePoint Web Services, earlier versions of Presto did not support the NTLM Authentication. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 2.2: Mashing SharePoint RSS with Presto

This is the seventh in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

In this article we'll publish a pair of RSS Feeds with Presto, use Wires to combine and filter the Feeds to create a Mashup, and finally, expose the Mashup as a Mashlet. One of the feeds will be provided by SharePoint and the other will be from a non-SharePoint source, so we will be demonstrating how Presto can be used to mash SharePoint data with external data source. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 2.1: Presto Consuming SharePoint Services

This is the sixth in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

This article will focus on how SharePoint generated RSS can be consumed by Presto, other articles will look at SharePoint Web Service consumption and how SharePoint Services can be mashed using Presto. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 1.4.1: Creating a List Mashlets Web Part using Presto Connector for C#

This is the fifth in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

Whereas the MashletView Web Part, described in the previous article, provides a web part viewer in which to render a Mashlet, this second Web Part will make use of the Presto Connector for C# and ASP.NET UI Controls to access the Mashup Server and render the Web Part UI. [Read More...]

Extending Mashlet Maker with Custom Mashlets using a Custom BubbleChart Mashlet

Introduction

We decided to prepare a new sample Mashlet to showcase how you can extend Mashlet Maker in Presto 2.6.x using custom Mashlets as well as the capabilities of the BubbleChart chart type. First let's have a look at building the custom Mashlet.

A rich set of FusionChart chart types are bundled with Presto, only a few of them are used by the current set of sample mashlet types, such as the Bar, Line and Pie charts.

A sample Bubble Chart is provided on the FusionCharts web site, here.

The bubble chart enables us to plot 3 dimensions, the x and y axis coordinates together with the 3rd dimension represented by the bubble size. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 1.4: Using Custom Web Parts to publish Mashlets into SharePoint

This is the fourth in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

Introduction

This section will illustrate how SharePoint custom Web Parts can be used to access Presto Mashups. The section will detail the process of writing and deploying the Web Parts to a SharePoint Site. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 1.3: SharePoint Consuming Presto Published RSS

This is the third in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction. [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 1.2: SharePoint Consuming Mashups using standard XML Web Part

This is the second article in a multi-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction.

With a fairly basic knowledge of XSL, XPath and XSL Stylesheets, the SharePoint XML Web Part can provide a front-end for Presto Mashups. The XML Web part can actually be used to invoke any REST-like, XML based, non-SOAP Web Service, where the invocation request is encapsulated in a URI and the response is received as an XML document.

So prerequisites for the Presto Service are: [Read More...]

Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint Part 1.1: Using Standard Web Parts to Publish Mashlets into Microsoft SharePoint

This is the first in a many-part series about Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint.  You can read about the entire series at http://www.jackbe.com/enterprise-mashup/blog/mashing-sharepoint-introduction. [Read More...]