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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By : Ed Musters
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By: Ed Musters

Overview of this book

<p>There is a heavy demand in the marketplace for SharePoint developers that you could take advantage of - if only you had the opportunity to acquire the relevant skills! But, SharePoint 2010 is a big old product with a steep learning curve &ndash; where do you begin? <br /><br />This book has been designed to take the experienced ASP.NET developer from &ldquo;beginner&rdquo; to &ldquo;professional&rdquo; SharePoint developer in the shortest amount of time. You will be productive on you very first SharePoint development assignment with the knowledge and skills that you learn here. You will have distilled the essence of the author&rsquo;s many years of training, and leading development teams in SharePoint. <br /><br />This book uncovers the most common &ldquo;pattern&rdquo; of typical SharePoint development tasks encountered in the real world and puts the topics in a logical order with detailed step-by-step recipes for you to follow. <br />The practical example given builds and flows throughout the chapters and topics. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts to the challenges ahead of you!</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Visual Studio 2010


Visual Studio 2010 is, believe it or not, the very first version of Visual Studio to incorporate a complete set of SharePoint 2010 development tools—ones that we of the SharePoint development world have been longing for for many years. You might overhear our excitement by murmuring "Wow!" We can press F5 and then we can even debug our software! For those ASP.NET developers who might be new to SharePoint development in 2010, you might say "Yeah, so what?" Of course you can! To which we might reply "But you don't understand!!!". Anyway, I digress, this could be the subject of another whole chapter about what we used to have to deal with, which would add absolutely no value whatsoever to your task at hand today. Suffice to say, Visual Studio is your primary SharePoint customization platform that you will discover as we go through the book. For now, let us get this tool installed into your virtual environment.

Getting ready

Download Visual Studio 2010 from your MSDN subscription—get the Ultimate version if you have it, download the Professional version, or type Microsoft visual studio 2010 ultimate trial into your favorite search engine to download the 30-day trial from the Microsoft site.

Note

Note that there is an option on the start page of Visual Studio to register the software and extend this trial for a further 60 days.

Either way, you will be provided with an ISO image that you can attach to the virtual machine as a CD Drive. Run Autorun.EXE.

How to do it...

Here is the recipe for installing Visual Studio 2010:

  1. On the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Setup screen, click on Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

  2. Under the Help Improve Setup section, de-select Yes, send information about my setup experiences to Microsoft Corporation.

  3. Click the Next button when it is available.

  4. Click I have read and accept the license terms and click Next.

  5. Under Select features to install, select the Custom option and click Next.

  6. Deselect options for Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual F#, Dofuscator, and SQL Server 2008 Express. Finally, click Install.

  7. It's probably been long enough now, so have another coffee break and enjoy!

  8. Click Finish when the installation completes and restart the server when prompted.

  9. When rebooted, you can exit the wizard.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Visual Studio 2010.

How it works...

You may now realize the point which we are at. I will put forward to you that by my experience, the most effective development platform for the SharePoint 2010 developer is a standalone virtual machine, where Visual Studio is installed within a full server-based installation of SharePoint 2010. Only time will tell whether you agree with me!

There's more...

Start up Visual Studio 2010 and select your preferred environment settings (I choose the settings for Visual C# developer).

Note

Note the startup screen has the option of Extending Visual Studio (for an additional 60 days), in case you are using a trial version.