Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

Appendix A. Joining the Dots—Creating Composite Applications

Taken individually, the recipes in this book can help you solve everyday SharePoint problems. However, by learning how to combine their tools and techniques you will be able to create powerful "no code" composite applications to automate and control business processes and functions. This chapter is designed to illustrate how to achieve this.

Introduction

Before we start, it is important to understand what is and isn't a composite application. The first few sections in this chapter introduce you to composite applications, explaining their background and the key underlying concepts. Studying these sections will allow you to determine if your particular problem should be solved by creating ...