At the end of Tim Ferro’s SPChat a few of us started to discuss the future of SharePoint Development and even though we were only discussing a minor part of it, the debate was lively and good fun. So we were thinking – why not use the “Main Room” Chat on SPCOM to have a 60 minute debate about how we all see the future of SP Development.
As with TweetJam’s we’d have some set questions to discuss so that it has some structure.
My question is, if we organised this a date and time would you come along? If so, what questions / topics would you like to see discussed?
In a poll that’s currently rolling on SPCOM it looks like ‘Full Trust Solutions’ aren’t as dominant as I thought, so the tides are definitely changing! (ignore the spelling mistake!) :
Please leave your ideas for suggested questions in the comments..
Hi Mark,Â
Why not having a weekly debate? That way we can discuss all questions, and we can discuss more subjects as well later on.Â
If we schedule in 6 questions, and give them a max of 10 minutes that works… We can also have 3 or 4 as backups … just in case. The maybe a few of us from the community can summarise the general feeling in a blog for each question (as well as posting all the chat text!).
Raphael – those are some fantastic questions! I have spoken on Skype / FB and we would have at least 6 others interested in a debate. So I think we should go for it.
Any preferred dates?
Great idea, Mark! Here are some of the questions/topics I’d like to see addressed:
1. Why have you decided to switch to the new SharePoint-hosted or provider-hosted solutions dev model? Is it because you’re developing for Office 365 or because you feel it’s the way to go from now on, even for on-premises SharePoint ?
2. Do you think Microsoft should continue to invest in developer tools for full trust solutions? If so, which improvements are you most interested in?
3. If you use full trust solutions and would like to move to the new app model, what is holding you back from doing so? Is it SharePoint artifacts that are not available in the app model API? The requirement to run your code with high privileges? Other reasons?
4. Which challenges do you face as a developer when writing provider-hosted or SharePoint-hosted apps? Is it API limitation? Dev/Test complexity? Deployment complexity?
5. Are they specific dev or UI frameworks you expect to be available OOTB with the next version of SharePoint? (such as jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, etc…)
If I can think of other ideas, I’ll add them here later on.
