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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint

Overview of this book

The SharePoint platform is ideal for developers looking to build exciting solutions, and SharePoint 2010 is more equipped than ever for the task. While plenty of SharePoint titles will help you understand general SharePoint development techniques or spend time focusing on one method or tool, "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" offers you the option of using four different tools and platforms to achieve exceptional end user experience. This book fills the gap for a comprehensive SharePoint title which describes the end goal of a SharePoint developer. So often books focus on development techniques for one tool; this will get you on your way to developing a good business website with a great user experience, however, you choose to get there, be it using PowerShell, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows 7 Phone, or a combination of all four. "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" draws from five separate titles from Packt's existing collection of excellent SharePoint titles: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Development Blueprints "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint" is an exciting mash-up of five existing Packt SharePoint titles for extending development techniques. It begins with two never before seen Packt chapters from an exciting new title, giving you a quick overview of the options available for extending SharePoint. It then moves on quickly to building a community site and discusses PowerShell scripting, as well as integrating Silverlight animations and helping you get to grips with SharePoint development on Windows Phone. With this book in hand you won't just find techniques for one development tool, you'll learn how to reach your end goal of developing a site with great user experience using a number of options at your fingertips.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer's Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint
Credits
About the Contributors
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Preface

Understanding the benefits of integrating Silverlight with SharePoint


The following list shows many benefits of integrating Silverlight with SharePoint 2010:

  • Rich UX: Silverlight RIAs can offer a rich user experience. You can take full advantage of the rich visual capabilities offered by Silverlight and include them in a SharePoint site. The rich and interactive content offers an incredible new world of possibilities in SharePoint. For example, you can offer an interactive balanced scorecard with animated graphs, rich navigation capabilities, and context menus.

  • Code runs on the client: You can take advantage of the power of the client computers accessing the SharePoint server. You can use threading and asynchronous calls to offer responsive user interfaces and to take advantage of modern multi-core microprocessors found in client computers. You can offer great response times without the need to wait for the server to load another page. You can take advantage of rich controls...