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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook

By : Balaji Kithiganahalli
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook

By: Balaji Kithiganahalli

Overview of this book

Microsoft SharePoint 2010, is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With the combined capabilities of Sharepoint and Visual Studio, developers have an end-to-end business solutions development IDE. To leverage this powerful combination of tools it is necessary to understand the different building blocks. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook With Visual Studio 2010 is an instructional guide for developing and debugging applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you, you can also read it from cover to cover if you want to get hands on with the complete application development cycle.With this book you will learn to develop event handlers, workflows, content types, web parts, client object model applications, and web services for SharePoint 2010 in an instructional manner. You will discover the less known facts behind debugging feature receivers, deployment of web parts, utilizing free toolkits to enhance the development and debugging experience. You will learn the newer development approach called Visual Web Parts, how to develop and deploy Silverlight applications that can be used with Silverlight web part. You will also explore SandBoxed deployment model and its usage. You will create your own web services for SharePoint and the Client Object Model introduced in SharePoint 2010. All in all, you will develop Sharepoint solutions in an instructional manner that eases the learning process.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook
Balaji Kithiganahalli
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010: Expert Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010: Expert Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Lists and Event Receivers
Lists and Event Receivers
Introduction
Validating data when an item is added to a list
Adding a custom error message to the Event Receiver
Adding an Application Page to an Event Receiver
Working with List Event Receiver
Deploying Event Receivers
Creating a Feature Receiver
Debugging a Feature Receiver
Debugging Feature Installed Events
2
Workflows
Workflows
Introduction
Creating a sequential workflow
Creating a site workflow with an initiation form
Deploying an InfoPath form with the workflow
Creating a task from the workflow
Creating a custom task form
3
Advanced Workflows
Advanced Workflows
Introduction
Creating a custom activity
Creating a custom activity for a sandboxed solution
Creating a state machine workflow
Adding a custom workflow status
Creating a pluggable workflow service
4
List Definitions and Content Types
List Definitions and Content Types
Introduction
Creating a site column
Extending an existing content type
Creating custom content type using an object model
Associating a document template with the content type
Associating a workflow to a content type
Creating an external content type
Creating a list definition
5
Web Parts
Web Parts
Introduction
Creating a visual web part
Creating a code-only web part (sandboxed solution)
Creating AJAX enabled web parts
Adding configuration properties to web parts
Creating connectable web parts
Creating a Silverlight web part
6
Web Services and REST
Web Services and REST
Introduction
Getting data through REST
Filtering list data
Fiddling with Fiddler
Creating a REST consumer
Inserting new contacts through REST
Creating a custom SharePoint WCF service
7
Working with Client Object Model
Working with Client Object Model
Introduction
Creating a list using a Managed OM
Handling exceptions
Calling Object Model asynchronously
Using JavaScript Object Model
Using a Silverlight Object Model
Index
Index

Creating a list definition

In all the previous recipes, when we deployed the content type, we had to manually create a list based on the content type using the SharePoint UI. We can create list instances based on the content type using Visual Studio without going through the SharePoint UI.

In this recipe, we will create a custom content type called an Expense content type and based on that content type, we will create a list Definition and list Instance.

Our Expense content type will be based on an Item content type and will have three fields named Title, Amount, and Expense category which is a choice field.

Getting ready

You should have completed the previous recipes successfully.

How to do it...

  1. Launch your Visual Studio 2010 IDE as an administrator (right-click the shortcut and select Run as administrator).

  2. Select File | New | Project. The new project wizard dialog box will be displayed. (Make sure to select .NET Framework 3.5 in the top drop-down box).

  3. Select List Definition project under Visual...

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