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Posted by: Stegothedump - Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:20:07
I have a requirement to use YAF on a SharePoint installation of which i have no access to the server itself other than through SPD 2010 (so no file access etc) So my questions is, can I create a webpart of the YAF forum and upload to the SP system? Has anyone ever done this? Additional information, running SP 2010 and have Visual Studio 2010 TIA. Stephen

Posted by: Jaben - Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:40:24
I've thought about doing this now that I'm pretty advanced SharePoint developer. Wasn't sure if there was much of a market. Don't see how it would be all that complex... but I'll bet there are quite a few little "gotchas" and frankly, trying to get YAF.NET to actually integrate with SharePoint (e.g., use Sharepoint data structures) would be a bridge too big to cross. What are you ideas for it, Stephen? Just a webpart?

Posted by: Stegothedump - Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:43:01
I would think there will be a big market for this, off all the things that SP does probably the discussion/forums are the weakest. I don't think we need to bother with integrating data structures, just simply allow SP users to upload the webpart into a 1 column master page and auto authenticate via AD. Stephen