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.
