Chapter 2: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development
What You'll Learn in This Chapter:
- Getting to know the core developer pillars in SharePoint 2010 (including tools, platform services, and deployment options)
- Becoming familiar with the primary tools to develop and deploy SharePoint solutions
- Performing a number of installation, configuration, and simple development tasks
- Understanding site-level security settings within SharePoint
In Chapter 1, you learned about some of the basics of SharePoint 2010, including what it is and some of the high-level features for developers. You also became familiar with some of the basic architectural concepts, as well as the overall look and feel of a SharePoint site — both the SharePoint site you would interact with on a daily basis and the Central Administration site.
This chapter dives deeper into the developer features of SharePoint 2010, building on the discussion from Chapter 1. This chapter also walks you through some how-to examples that show you some basic Web-based actions, and then progresses into some more in-depth development samples. This chapter addresses some of the technical skills that you can expect to learn and hone as you get more involved with SharePoint development.
Thus, the goals of this chapter are twofold:
- To get you more familiar and comfortable with some of the core developer features of SharePoint
- To begin to show how you can programmatically interact with SharePoint
So, let’s jump in and get started ...
