A Provider Hosted App
is a high-trust app for
SharePoint. A high trust app uses a digital certificate to establish a trust
between remote web application and SharePoint 2013.
You’ll create a .pfx certificate file first, and then a
corresponding .cer file.
To
create a self-signed .pfx certificate file
1.
Goto the IIS manager, select the ServerName Node in
tree view on the left.
Select the Server Certificates option
in IIS.
1.
Select
the Create Self-Signed Certificate link from the set
of links on the right side.
2.
Name
the certificate HighTrustSampleCert, and then click Ok.
3.
Right-click
the certificate, and then select Export,
4.
Create
a folder called C:\Certs.
5.
Back
in IIS Manager, export the file to C:\Certs and give it a password.
To create a corresponding .cer file
1. On
the SharePoint server, be sure that the app pool identity for the following IIS
app pools have Read rights to the C:\Certs folder:
o
SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool
o
The app pool that serves the IIS web site that
hosts the parent SharePoint web application for your test SharePoint website.
For the SharePoint – 80 IIS website, the pool is
called OServerPortalAppPool.
2. In
IIS manager, select the ServerName node in the
tree view on the left.
3. Double-click
Server Certificates.
4. In
Server Certificates view, double-click HighTrustSampleCert
to display the certificate details.
5. On
the Details tab, choose Copy to File
to launch the Certificate Export Wizard, and then
choose Next.
6. Use
the default value No, do not export the private key,
and then choose Next.
7. Use
the default values. Choose Next.
8. Choose
Browse, browse to C:\Certs, name the certificate HighTrustSampleCert,
and then choose Save. The certificate is saved as a
.cer file.
9. Choose
Next.
10. Choose Finish.
You have all the required the permissions now. Now you can start
the project .
1.
Start Visual Studio 2012 by using the Run as administrator option.
2.
In Visual Studio 2012, on the File menu, choose New, and then
choose New Project.
3. In the
New Project dialog box, expand the Visual
C# node, expand the Office/SharePoint node, and
then choose the Apps node. Choose App
for SharePoint 2013.
4.
Name the project, and then choose the OK button.
5.
In the first Specify the
App for SharePoint Settings dialog box, name your app and provide the
URL of the SharePoint 2013 site that you want to use to debug your app. Under How do you want to host your
app for SharePoint, choose Provider-Hosted Choose Finish.
6. On Selection of provider Hosted, Click Next. The below
Screen will be asking the Certificates.
Give the User certificates, password and Issuer ID and click Finish.The Certificate needs to be created on the SharePoint machine and pfx file needs to be exported and shared with the Visual
Studio Machine.
1 7. Now,
the Solution has been created.
8.
Solution has 2 projects,
a.
SharepointApp2
b.
SharepointApp2Web
9.
Go to the property of AppWeb project and make
the .NET FRAMEWORK4.5 and create a virtual directory will be helpful to host
our AppWeb on local IIS .
10. By clicking Virtual Directory button, Virtual
Directory will be created on local IIS.
11. After property configuration, we are ready
with our provided Hosted Application. Rebuild the solution.
12. Go to
the AppManifest.xml in SharePointApp2
project and set the start page attribute to IIS Directory.
13.
Go to the permission tab. Add the
corresponding permission and full control.
14.
Now we
will registered our Client ID with
SharePoint, before deploying App. Client ID is nothing but GUID. You can
generate the client ID by reaching the APPregnew.aspx inside the 15 hive.
15.
Go to
the APPmanifest.xml of SharePointApp2 project and give the client ID.
<AppPrincipal>
<RemoteWebApplication ClientId="*" /
</AppPrincipal>
4 16. Go to the
WebConfig file and add the client ID with below key.
<appSettings>
<add key="ClientId" value="1de402c2-911a-47f5-8b51-fd8b57144c41"/>
<add key="ClientSecret" value="7Q1y02pvvWMBW7fzlAEnHsSGGATFWra1YEFCIo117sg="/>
<add key="ClientSigningCertificatePath" value="C:\MyCertificate.pfx"/>
<add key="ClientSigningCertificatePassword"
value="****"/>
<add key="IssuerId"
value="xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx"/>
</appSettings>
17.Now
deploy the Solution. So after successful deployment it will show like a page.
Click the Trust it. The App will get installed.
We can lunch the app from our SharePoint Portal.
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