Professional SharePoint® 2007 Development

3.9. Summary

This chapter introduced you to the out-of-the-box features SharePoint provides. You looked at how to use these features to "develop" a site from within the user interface as well as how to add to code like CAML to the other user interface elements.

You learned to create web applications and modify them according to the needs of your organization by:

• Creating the standard web applications and site collections

• Storing data on the server with SharePoint predefined lists and libraries

• Modifying the look of the site by adding user interface elements

• Creating new content types to store data

• Implementing your own set of mobile controls or using the predefined ones

As you can see, there are many changes that you make to SharePoint using the existing framework. Some of these options only require you to add code to the user interface elements without updating or using compiled code.

Now you should be ready to open up your development environment and create the components that make up SharePoint, such as WebParts. In the following chapters, you will see how all of the elements that you have seen through the user interface can also be created, added, and removed through code.