Preface

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With 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 of SharePoint. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook is an instructional guide for developing, debugging and deploying applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you or 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 and how to develop and deploy Silverlight applications that can be used with Silverlight web parts. You will also explore the SandBoxed deployment model and its usage. You will create your own web services for SharePoint and learn more about 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.