SharePoint 2010 Development

Getting Started

You will need Visual Studio 2010 with a local instance of SharePoint 2010. You will also need to install Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Powertools to get additional templates for SharePoint.

Getting Started

You will need Visual Studio 2010 with a local instance of SharePoint 2010. You will also need to install Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Powertools to get additional templates for SharePoint.

If you want to develop on Windows 7/Vista, read this post to install SharePoint.

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Articles

Link	Description
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development	Introduction to SharePoint tools in VS 2010
Site Definition Walkthrough	Step by step article to creating a site definition

Ted Patterson Videos

Getting Started


How to create project and deploy


Adding SharePoint Project Items

Creating Site Definitions

MSDN Videos

Introduction to Developing Applications with SharePoint 2010




SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 1 of 3: Introduction



SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 2 of 3: Related Lists


SharePoint Server-side Data Access – Part 3 of 3: Analyzing Generated CAML

Resources

Link	Description
Starter Master Pages	Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010 are a clean, commented starting point for creating your own SharePoint 2010 branding.
Patterns and Practices Guidance for SharePoint 2010(PDF) or Direct Home Page	SharePoint 2010 introduces new ways of developing applications for the SharePoint platform. With SharePoint 2010, you can build multi-tenant, hosted applications on an infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and stable. You can create powerful, data-driven solutions using SharePoint lists or external data. You can create client-side functionality that takes advantage of modern browser capabilities and Silverlight to provide a rich user experience. These new features, operational models, and development tools make SharePoint a more complete application platform, and it also introduces new design and development decisions for customers. This guidance helps customers understand the decision points, tradeoffs, and performance implications that the new functionality introduces; it also helps customers learn how to take best advantage of the new capabilities that SharePoint 2010 provides. It includes a written guide, eight reference implementations, source code for a resuable library, and 25 How-to topics
SharePoint Manager 2010	The SharePoint Manager 2010 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. It also enables you to change the properties.
Starter code samples	Microsoft Project Server 2010 Solution Starters demonstrate the power and extensibility of SharePoint 2010 and Project 2010 and help you getting started qucikly! Both installable binaries and source code are available.

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