Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), together with Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS), has made a tremendous impact in the past few years.  WSS and SPS have enabled organizations to set up powerful collaboration systems and portals that let users efficiently work together to create and consume information.

Acceptance of Sharepoint has given way to hunger for bigger and better pieces of functionality within the Sharepoint environment.  Rich, interactive reports involving grids and charts, dynamic organization charts illustrating the hierarchy of users in your organization, and many other scenarios all demand the ability to create rich WebPart components.  Syncfusion Essential Studio for ASP.NET provides the answer for all your custom WebPart needs.  Advanced and rich Grid, Chart, Diagram, XlsIO, and PDF products are just a few of a whole suite of controls and components that you can leverage in creating your custom WebParts.

If you are familiar with ASP.NET or Windows Forms development, you should also be familiar with UserControls.  A Sharepoint WebPart is very similar to a UserControl with respect to how it is built.  Developers can simply add ASP.NET controls, or Syncfusion ASP.NET controls, into the WebPart and include some code for implementing the business logic into the controls in the WebPart.  Then the WebPart can be deployed into a specified location in the portal server, granting all of the Sharepoint users immediate access to the new WebPart in their web pages.

The following code snippet shows how easily a WebPart UI with a chart control can be created: 

Syncfusion’s Sharepoint-enabled ASP.NET Controls

Syncfusion Essential Studio for ASP.NET comes with a whole suite of Sharepoint-enabled controls that can be easily plugged into a WebPart as described above.  Great care has been taken to ensure that our controls can be easily used inside a Sharepoint environment. Outlined below are some of the built-in characteristics that greatly simplify use and deployment of Syncfusion libraries in a Sharepoint website:

• Easy deployment of the assemblies without having to alter the security settings.
• Ability to deploy the related script and image files in any custom location conducive to your Sharepoint setup.
• Allows developers to avoid the use of Session States, which are normally not available in Sharepoint.
• Ability to customize the location of transient file outputs (such as an image file for a chart) so that Sharepoint can be easily configured to allow such file access.

Here is a sample WebPart that hosts an Essential Grid control for ASP.NET inside: 

Custom WebParts using Syncfusion Controls

• Create WebParts that can dynamically create Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files on the fly using our Essential PDF, XlsIO, or DocIO products.
• Use Essential Grid and/or Essential Chart to create rich interactive reports.
• Use Essential Diagram to dynamically create organization charts and flow and network diagrams.
• Or use our Editor controls in Essential Tools to create rich forms for user input.

Our online ASP.NET Sample Browser illustrates the functionality of all our ASP.NET controls that can also be used in a Sharepoint environment:

http://www3.syncfusion.com/infrastructure/samplebrowser/samples.aspx

We also offer a tutorial that illustrates how you can create and deploy a WebPart using Syncfusion ASP.NET controls: 

SharepointTutorial.chm

Note (For IE users only):
Download the file, right click on it, select properties and then click 'Unblock' to access the file.

There are also some sample WebParts that use our Essential Grid and Essential Chart to create some rich WebParts:

Sharepoint Samples (ZIP archive)

To learn more about our products, please visit:   

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/default.aspx

To work with the full-featured evaluation version of Syncfusion Essential Studio, please download the 30-day trial available at: 

http://www.syncfusion.com/Downloads/default.aspx

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a provider of software components and tools for the .NET platform.  Based in Morrisville, NC, Syncfusion leads the market with the broadest range of ASP.NET and Windows Forms software components and tools for building enterprise-class applications.  Syncfusion can be reached at 888.9.DOTNET, or on the web at www.syncfusion.com