Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development

Discover how to take advantage of the many new features inSharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 is a significant leap forward from the 2007release, and 'you will find that there are a ton of features builtinto the platform for you to leverage in your solution development. Because SharePoint is a broad platform that covers a lot, this bookalso covers quite a bit of ground. As a WroxBeginning book, the goal of Beginning SharePoint 2010Development is to get you started with many of the fundamentalsso that you can continue on to advanced programming beyond thisbook. The book's goal is to quickly take you from the basics ofSharePoint, to installing and configuring a developmentenvironment, and then into how you can develop for SharePoint. Thebook is heavy on coding exercises, but tries to stick to a commonset of . NET patterns to ensure you walk away with understanding thedifferent ways in which you can code for SharePoint. Moving frombeginning to advanced means that you can expect the walkthroughsand chapters to become increasingly more complex within eachchapter and throughout the book. The walkthroughs have been createdto be concise and to guide you through all of the steps you mustaccomplish to complete a coding task. Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development is aimed atthe developer who is new to SharePoint. The book assumes you havesome programming experience and a passion to learn how to developfor SharePoint. But this book does not assume that you'veprogrammed against SharePoint before. With regard to your generaldevelopment background, the two assumptions in this book are thatyou have some familiarity with Web development, and you have anunderstanding of . NET programming. With regard to Web development, this book assumes that you understand HTML, and may have anunderstanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible MarkupLanguage/Extensible Stylesheet Language (XML/XSL), and dynamiclanguages such as JavaScript. You may have a light understanding ofASP. NET and are looking to apply this knowledge to the SharePointspace. In any case, you have some understanding of the fundamentalsof Web and . NET development, and are looking to apply those to theSharePoint space.