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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 and Using Page Layouts


When you created the Q1 Results page in the Press Releases site, you filled in the Title and Page Content on what is known as a Publishing Page Layout called the Article Page. This is the most generic type of page layout for SharePoint 2010 WCM.

However, just like a web form, you can extend the Article Page Layout by adding additional fields! This task is accomplished by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

In this recipe, we want to add a Proposals section to our website, where we can provide a web page that gives an overview and more information about a particular proposal, and then a link to the proposal itself. When filling out the web page, similar metadata should be specified, such as the proposal type, client, and amount. In order to accomplish this, we will be creating a custom Publishing Page Layout for our proposals.

Since everything in SharePoint is based on a content type, you should perhaps not be surprised that, when we go to create our own custom page...