Book description
Discover how to take advantage of the many new features in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 is a significant leap forward from the 2007 release,
and 'you will find that there are a ton of features built into the
platform for you to leverage in your solution development. Because
SharePoint is a broad platform that covers a lot, this book also
covers quite a bit of ground. As a Wrox Beginning book,
the goal of Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development is to get you
started with many of the fundamentals so that you can continue on to
advanced programming beyond this book.
In this book, you will see coverage of the following:
- Getting started with development for SharePoint 2010
- Becoming familiar with tools that you will use to develop for SharePoint
- Becoming familiar with common SharePoint development tasks
- Programming against lists and developing custom Web parts
- Integrating line-of-business (LOB) data with SharePoint and
Microsoft Office
- Integrating Silverlight and SharePoint
- Creating service-oriented solutions for SharePoint
- Integrating SharePoint and Microsoft Office
- Security fundamentals in SharePoint
This book will not cover SharePoint 2007, but will cover areas that
span SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.
The book's goal is to quickly take you from the basics of SharePoint,
to installing and configuring a development environment, and then into
how you can develop for SharePoint. The book is heavy on coding
exercises, but tries to stick to a common set of .NET patterns to
ensure you walk away with understanding the different ways in which
you can code for SharePoint. Moving from beginning to advanced means
that you can expect the walkthroughs and chapters to become
increasingly more complex within each chapter and throughout the book.
The walkthroughs have been created to be concise and to guide you
through all of the steps you must accomplish to complete a coding task.
The structure of the book mimics the development ramp-up cycle for
SharePoint. That is, you must first understand the breadth of the
SharePoint platform. You then install it and the development
environment; and then you begin to code - simple at first, but tasks
that grow increasingly more complex. You will find that when coding
against SharePoint, you may do certain things more (such as
programming against lists and creating custom Web Parts). As such,
these topics are covered in Part II of the book. Also, you may find
that, as you advance in your SharePoint development, you will need to
incorporate either Silverlight or Web services in your SharePoint
solutions. Because you would likely combine these types of tasks
inside of a custom Web Part, list-based application, or event
receiver, these were placed in Part III of the book.
Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development is aimed at the developer
who is new to SharePoint. The book assumes you have some programming
experience and a passion to learn how to develop for SharePoint. But
this book does not assume that you've programmed against SharePoint
before. With regard to your general development background, the two
assumptions in this book are that you have some familiarity with Web
development, and you have an understanding of .NET programming. With
regard to Web development, this book assumes that you understand HTML,
and may have an understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Stylesheet Language (XML/XSL),
and dynamic languages such as JavaScript. You may have a light
understanding of ASP. NET and are looking to apply this knowledge to
the SharePoint space. In any case, you have some understanding of the
fundamentals of Web and .NET development, and are looking to apply
those to the SharePoint space.
Steve Fox is a Technical Evangelist in the Developer Platform
Evangelism group at Microsoft. He's worked in the IT industry for over
15 years, in areas such as natural language, search, developer tools,
and more recently Office Business Application and SharePoint
development. Steve also presents at many conferences such as TechEd,
VSLive, DevConnections, SAP TechEd, among others, and has written a
number of articles for MSDN Magazine.
