Summary

This chapter presented the foundation of Web Parts. You learned to build and deploy Web Parts. There are several methods for building Web Parts. The manual approach involves a lot of legwork to create appropriate types and to sign the assembly. The deployment process is equally arduous. However, the manual process has a certain knack for imparting life-long lessons that pay dividends when automated processes go haywire.

To ease the task of writing and deploying Web Parts, Microsoft has released new SharePoint template add-ins. These templates help simplify the programming effort and bring the added advantage of the powerful Visual Studio debugger to SharePoint. Although there are many tools that can help you write Web Parts—such as the ...

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