Chapter 2. Architecture
SharePoint 2010 is built on a comprehensive object model, supplying powerful features to access and manipulate internal data. This chapter introduces the SharePoint object model. The remaining chapters contain many useful scenarios and examples of what can be achieved via the object model—principally by extending, or customizing, the default behavior to suit your needs.
There are several quite diverse approaches to programming SharePoint, depending on your project's requirements, which we will explore.
Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint 2010 has greatly improved the support for testing and debugging. We introduce the new features and show how to handle basic and more advanced everyday tasks.
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