Tordgeman J. - Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013

Johnny Tordgeman is the CTO of E4D Solutions Ltd., a boutique development and consulting firm in Israel. Johnny specializes in architecting enterprise-level solutions built on top of Microsoft's SharePoint platform. Johnny utilizes the latest in web technology and methodology in his solutions, such as HTML5, SPA, and MVC4.

Johnny is the author of MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide , Packt Publishing , which was published in 2012.

Johnny is a skilled lecturer and a Microsoft-certified trainer and can be found speaking at various conferences, open houses, and user groups.

You can always find Johnny at http://blog.johnnyt.me, on Twitter at @JTordgeman, and on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnytor.

I would like to dedicate this book to my son Roy and wife Ayelet. You two are my source of inspiration and the best family I could have ever hoped for.

First and foremost, I would like to thank Meeta Rajani and Sneha Modi, my amazing editors. Without your help and support, this book wouldn't have happened!

My dear family Itzik, Varda, Yuval, and Shirly, and friends Idan, Yossi, Rani, Leon, Niv, Guy, Tal, Eyal, Itay, and Tung (Tony) Pham. Thank you for the moral support and late nights we spent together. This book and I owe a great deal to all of you.

Samuel Zuercher[MVP] (SharePoint MVP since 2011) works as a Senior Consultant at Experts Inside, Switzerland, an international company he founded with another SharePoint MVP, Christian Glessner. He has been working with SharePoint since early 2006 and has in-depth knowledge from Version 2.0 onward. He also holds certifications for every SharePoint version since then. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he often trains people, from end users to technical specialists. Additionally, he founded the Swiss SharePoint Community, is one of the main drivers of Collaboration Days, and runs the blog >, Twitter at @SharePointSzu, or a variety of platforms such as Xing, LinkedIn, or Facebook.

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Preface

Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013 is a fast-paced, practical, hands-on guide to the world of enterprise search in SharePoint 2013. With step-by-step tutorials and real-world-based exercises, this book will give you a head start in creating fresh and exciting search-driven applications using SharePoint 2013's new search engine. The book covers a wide range of topics such as Query Rules, Result Types and Display Templates, Working with the new client APIs, and Business Connectivity Services.

What this book covers

, Getting Started With SharePoint 2013 Search , gives you a taste of the new features SharePoint 2013 search brings to the table and then dives deep into the architecture that holds this system together.

, Using the Out of the Box Search Components , shows you how to use query rules and result sources and get a taste of building a simple search-driven application. SharePoint 2013 provides a rich out of the box experience for developing search-driven applications.

, Using the New CSOM and RESTful APIs , explains how to work with these new APIs and build a SharePoint hosted search-driven app using the new App developing approach. SharePoint 2013 changes the way we developers extend the platform by providing a whole new set of client-based APIs.

, Customizing the Look , focuses on creating display templates that define how a search result will render, and result types that define which display template a result should have. SharePoint 2013 opens up a whole new way to design our search results.

, Extending Beyond SharePoint , introduces how to create an external indexing connector and understand how to work with external data. In a real-world environment, not all the information we wish to search for is hosted within SharePoint. Business Connectivity Services (or BCS for short) enables us to extend beyond the realms of SharePoint and index data from external systems.