Professional SharePoint 2010 Development

Updated guidance on how to take advantage of the newest features of SharePoint programmability

More than simply a portal, SharePoint is Microsoft's popular content management solution for building intranets and websites or hosting wikis and blogs. Offering broad coverage on all aspects of development for the SharePoint platform, this comprehensive book shows you exactly what SharePoint does, how to build solutions, and what features are accessible within SharePoint.

Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this new edition offers an extensive selection of field-tested best practices that shows you how to leverage the vast power of this multi-faceted tool to build custom workflow and content management applications. Plus, you'll discover how to take advantage of the new features to roll out new SharePoint sites or upgrade existing sites.
* Keeps you thoroughly up to date on all the most recent changes to SharePoint 2010
* Reveals broad and deep coverage of social media features, content management applications, enterprise search, business connectivity services, user experience development, and custom workflow
* Examines SharePoint Server 2010 vs. SharePoint Foundation Server
* Highlights ways you can take advantage of improvements to offline and mobile client capabilities, improvements to SQL Server table support, Cloud-based offerings with Azure integration, social networking additions, and more

Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, Second Edition presents you with authoritative coverage on all aspects of development for the SharePoint platform.

This is the broad and deep book for SharePoint developers that covers all aspects of development for the SharePoint platform. Featuring new content on key areas for this second edition book. From what SharePoint does and how developers build solutions, to building custom workflow and content management applications, this book has field-tested best-practices on it all. Some of the topics covered include: User experience development Platform services: site definitions, custom field types The object model and event handling Social media features Enterprise search Extended business connectivity services Building content management solutions for records management, document management, and web content management Forms and workflow Business Intelligence (BI) Some of the new features of SharePoint 2010 that developers will take advantage of include: ASP.NET Ajax, LINQ, and Silverlight support Improvements to offline and mobile client capabilities (new content) Groove client support extensibility Search improvements with FAST (additional coverage) SQL Server table support improvements More BI (Business Intelligence) features (additional content) Social networking additions (completely revised) Cloud based offerings with "Azure" integration (completely revised) SharePoint Cloud development with sandboxed solutions

Updated guidance on how to take advantage of the newest features of SharePoint programmability More than simply a portal, SharePoint is Microsoft's popular content management solution for building intranets and websites or hosting wikis and blogs. Offering broad coverage on all aspects of development for the SharePoint platform, this comprehensive book shows you exactly what SharePoint does, how to build solutions, and what features are accessible within SharePoint. Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this new edition offers an extensive selection of field-tested best practices that shows you how to leverage the vast power of this multi-faceted tool to build custom workflow and content management applications. Plus, you'll discover how to take advantage of the new features to roll out new SharePoint sites or upgrade existing sites. Keeps you thoroughly up to date on all the most recent changes to SharePoint 2010 Reveals broad and deep coverage of social media features, content management applications, enterprise search, business connectivity services, user experience development, and custom workflow Examines SharePoint Server 2010 vs. SharePoint Foundation Server Highlights ways you can take advantage of improvements to offline and mobile client capabilities, improvements to SQL Server table support, Cloud-based offerings with Azure integration, social networking additions, and more Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, Second Edition presents you with authoritative coverage on all aspects of development for the SharePoint platform.