Book Image

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


SharePoint Designer 2010 is the website editing tool for SharePoint. And typically, as the name implies, it is certainly the tool a web designer would use by editing web pages, HTML, styling (CSS), and much more.

However, this chapter's focus is more on the use of SharePoint Designer 2010 for developers. This tool is a ground-up redesign from its 2007 predecessor, and it in fact ensures that the developer is a target audience for this tool.

SharePoint 2010 is, at its heart, a product that a developer should consider first for configuring the product to do what your users want, before resorting to a code (Visual Studio) solution. You have already performed some out-of-the-box configuration using "in browser" tools, and SharePoint Designer 2010 can take configuration to another level.

And, of course, SharePoint Designer 2010 requires a good exploration of its capabilities, so that you understand if some task would, in fact, require a Visual Studio customization.