SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010

4. SharePoint Lists

Introduction to SharePoint Lists

SharePoint 2010 has a variety of functionalities, including enterprise content management and search, but at its core, SharePoint is about collaboration and document management. These types of solutions require a flexible model that allows users to store, manage, and share all kinds of data. In SharePoint you can have tasks or issues assigned to members in a team, documents, or any other kind of structured data shared across groups of users. SharePoint uses lists and content types that define the data in the lists to implement these collaboration scenarios. Out of the box, SharePoint provides a huge variety of list templates but there are scenarios that require extending existing lists or ...