Re: Document mangment in .net
- From: "Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <nickmalik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:41:22 -0700
WSS is Windows Sharepoint Services. It is a free component that you can
install on Windows Server 2003. It handles many basic requirements of
document management, include the features you mention.
Sharepoint server is a commercial portal product that sits on top of WSS and
provides additional features. It is really useful if you are setting up a
corporate Intranet or Extranet environment and you want an out-of-the-box
portal environment.
For more information on the difference, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830320
Yes, your winforms app can submit documents and retrieve documents directly
with Sharepoint. WSS provides a web service interface for this purpose.
Find out more in the Sharepoint 2003 SDK.
(Note that Sharepoint 2007 will be released soon, so if you want, navigate
through the site below and you can also see info on that product, which has
some really nice features as well.)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155174.aspx
Advantage of using Sharepoint as your back end:
Not only do you get the document management stuff for 'free', but you also
get the ability to offer a web based interface to those customers who want
or need one. (You don't HAVE to offer the web based interface, but think
about it... do you have a customer who may want to get access to his or her
document outside of your front end tool on a browser?) It's free. Hard to
beat the price. And it's debugged, and it works. Hard to beat that either.
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"sameer" <sameer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nick, thanks for your reply and need a little more info on it.
1. Is WSS same as Sharepoint server?
2. Do u mean i need to install Wss on the webserver, from my Winforms
application invoke the wss sdk api to store and retrieve the documents
with
wss + also from my web application invoke the wss sdk to again retrive the
saved documents ?
what is the advantage of using wss in this process, can u point me to an
online resouce when i could get more info on wss.
thanks
sameer
"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" wrote:
Hello Sameer,
Your entire scenario can be done out of the box using WSS (which is
free).
Virus scanning will require a virus scanning package to be configured to
scan the documents in WSS. Many commercial packages do this as one of
their
features, including Antigen, bitdefender, and PortalProtect.
Download WSS here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e084d5cb-1161-46f2-a363-8e0c2250d990&DisplayLang=en
Look up Virus Scanning for Sharepoint
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stse11.mspx?mfr=true
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"sameer" <sameer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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guys, thanks for your response.
Dmytro : lets say i store all the documents in a folder on the machine
and
the only way i want users to view these documents is either through my
distributed win forms application which conencts to the webserver over
webservices or Remoting OR through the browser but even for this i have
to
make the folder accessible to the IIS user, right? so what i mean to
say
is
that if IIS user is able to view them then any body can use a URL to
browse
to these documents. so the question again becomes how can i restrict
the
access to these documents from the internet.
Btw does any one know about Sharepoint server or windows sharepoint
services, coudl i use these in my scenario in any way?
thanks in advance.
sameer
"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" wrote:
Hello sameer,
quick correction
"Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP]" <x-code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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Hi,
Regarding your question #2: I personally would store all docs in a
file
system folder with tighened up security. SharePoint stores document
this
way, and that's probably for a reason - MS guys know what they're
doing.
actually Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 both store 'uploaded' documents in
blobs
in the SQL Server database. This makes it easier to manage the act of
taking a backup and restoring it, as well as the problem of seperating
two
Sharepoint web sites so that one is hosted on a different server,
while
the
second remains where it is.
At first I had the same questions, but I tend to follow suit to this
choice
in my current apps.
Put your doc into a db column.
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--- Nick Malik [Microsoft]
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this forum are my own, and not
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I do not answer questions on behalf of my employer. I'm just a
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