A comprehensive, practical, and hands-on guide to SharePoint 2010 development * Start to finish coverage from top SharePoint expert, Rob Foster (Microsoft MVP and co-host, SharePoint Pod Show) * Real-world scenarios: setting up development teams, creating workflows, automating deployments, upgrading from SharePoint 2007, feature upgrades, and more * Extensive advanced coverage: social features, search, Business Connectivity Services, LINQ, Silverlight, and more SharePoint 2010 offers developers more power and flexibility than any previous version of SharePoint. In this book, one of the world's most experienceded SharePoint developers covers everything programmers need to know to create robust, dynamic, scalable, and manageable solutions for any organization, no matter how large or complex. Thoroughly hands-on and packed with code examples, SharePoint 2010 Development Unleashed covers the entire development process, as well as all development tools, coding approaches, and key APIs. SharePoint MVP Rob Foster thoroughly discusses Microsoft's newest and most powerful SharePoint enhancements, and presents a full section on its powerful new social features and API.
Coverage includes: " Developing SharePoint 2010 solutions with Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer, and PowerShell " Setting up projects and teams, creating web parts and features, and deploying solutions " Using LINQ, Silverlight, events, and event receivers " Working with SharePoint 2010's server-side, client-side, and web services APIs " Using Social Tagging, bookmarking, organization, and the new Social and Organization APIs " Configuring search and programming with the Search API " Using Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to access line-of-business data and enterprise content " Creating workflows in SharePoint Designer and managing them in Visual Studio 2010 " Upgrading projects from SharePoint 2010
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is SharePoint? 1. SharePoint 2010 Architecture Part II. The Development Tools 2. Visual Studio 2010 3. SharePoint Designer 4. PowerShell Part III. Using Visual Studio for SharePoint Development 5. Setting up a Development Project 6. Creating a Simple Web Part 7. Creating a Master Page 8. Creating a Feature 9. Deployment Part IV. Coding Approaches 10. Using LINQ 11. Silverlight 12. Using Events and Event Receivers 13. Creating Workflows 14. Feature Upgrades Part V. The APIs 15. Server-side API 16. Client-side API 17. Web Services Part VI. Social Computing 18. SharePoint 2010 Social Features 19. Social Tagging and Bookmarking and the Social API 20. Organization and the Organization API Part VII. Search 21. Introduction to Search Features 22. Configuring Search 23. The Search API Part VIII. Business Connectivity Services 24. Introduction to the BCS 25. Using the BCS to Access LOB Data and Enterprise Content Types 26. Offline Access to Data 27. External Lists Part IX. Real-World Scenarios 28. Setting up a Development Team 29. Creating Workflows in SPD, Managing Them in Visual Studio 30. Source Control 31. Feature Upgrades 32. Automated Deployments 33. Upgrading Projects from SharePoint 2007
Author Biography
Rob Foster is a lead architect and SharePoint MVP with nearly eight years of experience implementing enterprise SharePoint Solutions. He co-hosts the SharePoint Pod Show (http://www.sharepointpodshow.com), a podcast focused on SharePoint that has had more than 250,000 show downloads in just over a year since its first episode. Foster co-authored the successful SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed and ASP.NET 3.5 Ajax Unleashed.
