Resource Points

Version: 1.0

Description

In this lab, you will learn how pesouce points affect solutions in SharePoint Onlines. During the lab, you will create a solution that consumes enough resouce points to cause the solution to be disabled.

Overview

Lab Time: 20 minutes

Lab Folder: C:\%Office365TrainingKit%\Labs\2.4\Source\Before

Lab Overview: In this lab, you will demonstrate how to monitor resource points for a sandboxed solution. You will learn what constitutes a resource point and create a solution that consumes too many resource points and becomes disabled. Lastly, you will learn how to monitor your own resource usage.

System Requirements

You must have the following items to complete this lab:

  • SharePoint 2010
  • Visual Studio 2010
  • SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
  • SharePoint Online site
    • Note: You will need administrator access to an SPO site collection to perform the steps in this lab.
Note:
These setup instructions apply to all the labs in this unit; you don’t need to repeat these steps if you already performed them in the first lab in the unit.

Task 1 – Create SharePoint Site

In this task, you will create a sub site for this lab in your SharePoint on-premise site.

  1. Navigate to your top-level SharePoint site, e.g., https://intranet.contoso.com.
  2. From Site Actions, choose New Site.
  3. Choose the Blank Site template.
  4. Enter Lab02 for the name of the site to create.
    1. The site will be created at https://intranet.contoso.com/Lab02.
  5. Click Create to create the site.

Task 2 – Prepare Code Snippets

This lab contains code snippets that you will use to complete the solution. You can either copy the snippets from the lab script itself or install the code snippets so that you can access them directly from Visual Studio.

  1. Browse to C:\%Office365TrainingKit%\Assets\Code Snippets
  2. Select all the files in this directory and copy them to your clipboard by pressing [Ctrl]+[a] and then [Ctrl]+[c].
  3. Browse to ..\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets Press [Ctrl]+[v] to paste the code snippet files into this directory.
    Note:
    To reduce typing, you can right-click where you want to insert source code, select Insert Snippet, select My Code Snippets and then select the entry matching the current exercise step.