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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

Creating custom Web Part properties


Web Parts are not really Web Parts, in my opinion, unless they are customizable! So far, they are just convenient user interface components. It is the Properties that turn it into a true Web Part! Customizable means that the Designer can change the appearance or behavior of the Web Part through its settings. Trivially, we did this with the Title property in the first recipe of this chapter.

If you have not done so already, refresh your memory by going back to the last recipe and access the Web Part menu and Edit Web Part. On the right-hand side of the Editor Zone, you will see the following three categories: Appearance, Layout, and Advanced, as shown in the following screenshot:

Our goal in this recipe will be displaying text in the Web Part in a chosen custom color. In order to do that, we need to provide a choice of colors as a property in the Editor Zone.

Getting ready

We will be continuing from the previous recipe, Creating Visual Web Parts. Please open...