Summary

This chapter starts with some cautionary information about taking time to understand what SharePoint 2010 can do out-of-the-box before deciding to use SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 to develop windows SharePoint 2010 applications, web parts, event handlers, and workflows. In addition, developers should have experience with the .NET platform and preferably C# or VB.NET before delving into Visual Studio 2010 development.

An example of creating a workflow-based application in Designer 2010 is provided that showed how to create a workflow that interacts with several SharePoint lists. The workflow, while demonstrating basic functionality, shows how a power user can quickly develop SharePoint workflows supporting basic needs ...

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