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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By : Ed Musters
Book Image

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

Introduction


The most common development task that I have encountered is the creation of Web Parts. Web Parts are widgets or gadgets or otherwise small components of user interface functionality that you can flexibly incorporate into your web pages. As of SharePoint 2007, Web Parts are not unique to SharePoint—in fact, they are directly from ASP.NET's WebControls namespace.

SharePoint 2010 has numerous out-of-the-box Web Parts that you can immediately incorporate on your page. So, please first familiarize yourself with all of these Web Parts and their capabilities! I am continually surprised by the number of times I have seen new SharePoint developers create a Web Part from scratch that effectively recreates out-of-the-box Web Part functionality. This chapter will be relevant for you if you have made the decision that you must create your own Web Part using Visual Studio 2010.