SharePoint 2010 Create New Managed Service Popup Windows

While exploring SharePoint I often read through Microsoft's code. With 2010, they added a lot of popup windows, and it's not always obvious which page is actually building the content of those popup windows.

In this particular case, I wanted to know what the page was when I was trying to create a new Service Application. If you click the New button in the Ribbon, you'll get a nice flyout menu with a bunch of services to choose from. But where do they go?

Here is a snippet that will get that answer for you:

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ShortDisplay();
        }

        internal class HeaderColumn
        {
            public string Title { get; set; }
            public int Width { get; set; }
        }

        static HeaderColumn[] headers = new HeaderColumn[] { 
             new HeaderColumn{ Title="Application Type", Width=35 }, 
             new HeaderColumn{ Title="Create Application Link URL", Width=45 }
        };

        static string headerString = string.Empty;
        static string lineFormatString = string.Empty;

        static List administrationServices = new List();

        private static void FormatHeader()
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < headers.Length; i++)
            {
                headerString += string.Format("{0,-" + headers[i].Width.ToString() + "}", headers[i].Title);
                lineFormatString += "{" + i.ToString() + ",-" + headers[i].Width.ToString() + "}";
            }
        }

        private static void FindAdministrationServices()
        {
            foreach (SPService service in SPFarm.Local.Services)
            {
                IServiceAdministration administration = service as IServiceAdministration;
                if (administration != null)
                {
                    if (!administrationServices.Contains(service))
                    {
                        administrationServices.Add(service);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private static List GetAdministrationLinks(IServiceAdministration administration)
        {
            List administrationLinks = new List();

            foreach (Type type in administration.GetApplicationTypes())
            {
                SPPersistedTypeDescription applicationTypeDescription = administration.GetApplicationTypeDescription(type);
                if (applicationTypeDescription != null)
                {
                    SPAdministrationLink createApplicationLink = administration.GetCreateApplicationLink(type);
                    if ((createApplicationLink != null) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(createApplicationLink.Url))
                    {
                        administrationLinks.Add(createApplicationLink);
                    }
                }
            }

            return administrationLinks;
        }

        public static void ShortDisplay()
        {
            FormatHeader();
            FindAdministrationServices();
            
            Console.WriteLine(headerString);
            foreach (SPService service in administrationServices)
            {
                string displayName = (string.IsNullOrEmpty(service.DisplayName) ? service.TypeName : service.DisplayName);
                //not very reusable, but good enough for now
                if (displayName.Length > 35)
                {
                    int lastDot = displayName.LastIndexOf('.');
                    if (lastDot >= 0 && displayName.Length > lastDot)
                    {
                        displayName = displayName.Substring(lastDot + 1, displayName.Length - lastDot - 1);
                    }
                }

                IServiceAdministration administration = service as IServiceAdministration;
                List administrationLinks = GetAdministrationLinks(administration);
                foreach(SPAdministrationLink createApplicationLink in administrationLinks)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(lineFormatString, displayName, createApplicationLink.Url);
                }
            }
        }
    }

And here is the output: