Angular Access Service

Session Agenda

• Introductions• Quick Demo: Architecture in Action• Architecture (Framework) Overview• Project Team Model• Live demo (slideware bores me too)

Introductions• Who am I?– Dad and Cardinals Fan– Consultant @ Kiefer Consulting– Been at it since 1999

• Who are you?– Developers? Anyone using

Access Services? Angular? Hybrid O365 Farms?

Scott Morrison, ConsultantKiefer Consulting, Inc.

smorrison@kieferconsulting.com

Key Session Goals• Access Services is a Great Backend– Easily Maintainable– Harness Legacy Investments– Empower the user– Default forms

• Embedded Provider Hosted App– Continuity

HYBRID CORPORATE INTRANETDEMO Architecture in Action

Core Technologies

• Embedded Provider Hosted App• Access Services• AngularJS

Provider Hosted App(Azure, AWS, etc)

SharePoint or O365

AccessServices

Angular SPAAuthentication

CORS

What is Access Services?• Database is actually a SQL Server database• Easy to create• Easy to maintain• Packaged as an app– Slight annoyances• Isolated app• Locked down

Why Access Services?• Legacy Access apps– Gold mines– Mission Critical LOB applications in place today

• Why were they created• Why are they still in Access

• New application development– Level the field– SSMS in Access– Update and promotion model– Data the right way

Sure feels like a flashback to the year 2000… but…

What is a Provider Hosted App?• SharePoint 2013 Compatible Application• Hosted outside of SharePoint– Azure– Amazon Web Services (AWS)– Rackspace– Your Datacenter– An on premise server in your customer’s Datacenter

(you provide the Application, Hardware, and/or VM)• Written in any language on any platform– Java, F#, Ruby, Linux, Unix

What is AngularJS?

What is CORS?

• Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)• White list domains• Pre-flight check prevents posting before grant

Project Team

Subject Matter Expert(SME)

User Experience

(UX)Designer

Architect / Developer

Business Rules | User Interface | Arch/Infra

Access HTML5, CSSControllers /

Services

Most Updates, Maintenance and Refinements performed by SME/Power User in Access

Embedded App:How is it Done?

• The SharePoint way: BCS• The easy way: provider hosted MVC• The future way: provider hosted Web API

DEMO

Why this ROCKS!

• Access Services with Custom Forms– Access Services solutions are isolated, so surface

them in GREAT UX– Run inside SP– Integrate APIs– Surface data anywhere– WSP like end game

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