Chapter 8. Application Techniques

Regarding SharePoint as both a platform and a framework presumes that you can create any kind of application on top of it. In this chapter we cover some advanced techniques you can use when you create such applications. These include

  • Using application pages to create SharePoint applications

  • Localization techniques for globalized applications

  • Using the event model at a feature and site level to create interactive solutions

  • Sending e-mail from custom code

  • Creating managed extensions for SharePoint applications and using LINQ

Creating SharePoint applications, and particularly application pages, combines almost everything you know from ASP.NET, and adds the SharePoint API together with some special features and controls. ...

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