Course Description

Learning Goals

This 5-day workshop is targeting developers who have none or limited SharePoint development skills. It is also an interesting course for developers who have experience with SharePoint 2007 but are not yet exposed to the new features of SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.

Target audience

.NET development skills are required to follow this course since most of the topics have to do with writing code. You should know your way around within SharePoint 2010 from an end-user perspective. No SharePoint 2010 development skills are required for this course.

Course Outline

Introducing SharePoint 2010 Development

SharePoint Foundation 2010 versus SharePoint Server 2010. What is SharePoint development all about? What are the skills needed? Your development environment? A look at the SharePoint Foundation 2010 architecture. SharePoint 2010 Key Investment areas.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 Architecture

Farms and IIS Web Applications. Creating SharePoint Web applications. Site Collections, Sites, Lists and Document Site Collections and Sites. Site Templates and Site Definitions. Lists and Document Libraries.

Introducing the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Object Models

Introducing the SharePoint 2010 Server Object Model. SPSite and SPWeb. SPList and SPListItem. SPDocumentLibrary and SPFile. SharePoint 2010 SOAP/REST Services. Introducing the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model. Using the Client OM in .NET, Silverlight and Javascript.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 Features Framework

Introducing Features. Building a Feature Project using Visual Studio 2010. Light-Up SharePoint with Custom Actions. Installing, Activating, Deactivating and Uninstalling Features. Feature Receivers.

SharePoint Solutions

Introducing SharePoint Solutions. Creating a SharePoint Solution. Adding and Deploying SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2010. Retracting SharePoint Solutions. Building Sandboxed Solutions.

Application Pages and Site Pages

Application Pages. Site Pages. Extending SharePoint UI: Ribbons, Dialogs, Notifications and Status bar. Web Part Pages.

 Branding SharePoint Foundation 2010 Sites

Master Pages. Styling a SharePoint Site with css. Building Custom Themes.

Managing Content in SharePoint Foundation 2010

Document Management Features. Managed Metadata and Taxonomy. User Administration. Site Columns and Content Types. Working with Document sets.

More Programming with Lists and Document Libraries

Introduction in the Building of Custom Field Types. Basic CAML Queries. Querying SharePoint data with LINQ to SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 REST API's. Introducing Event Handlers.

Building Web Parts

Essential Steps of Building and Deploying a Web Part. Building Visual Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010. Building Web Parts for a Sandboxed Solution. Exposing Web Part Properties. Connectable Web Parts. Building Silverlight Web Parts.

Introducing the SharePoint Server 2010

Overview of SharePoint Server 2010 features and editions. Shared Application Services. Building Portals with SharePoint Server 2010.

Configuring and Branding Portals

Configuration of available Site Templates. Master Pages. Styling of Portals.

Web Content Management with SharePoint Server 2010 Page

Model in a Portal. Creating intranet and internet Portals with SharePoint Server 2010. Creating Custom Page Layouts. Configuring the Publishing Cycle. Working with the Content Query Web Part. Site Variations.

Building InfoPath Solutions

Introducing InfoPath 2010, Designing InfoPath 2010 Templates, Deploying InfoPath Templates, Hosting InfoPath Templates in SharePoint InfoPath Forms Services, Customizing List Forms with InfoPath.

Building Workflow Solutions

Introducing Workflows and the Windows Workflow Foundation. Workflow Terminology and the OOB Experience. The new SharePoint 2010 Site Workflow. Building a SharePoint Workflow with Visual Studio 2010.

Business Connectivity Services

Why Business Connectivity Services? BCS Architecture. Creating External Content Types in Visual Studio 2010. Reusing Visual Studio Components in the SharePoint Designer. Working with the BCS Web Parts. BCS connectors.

SharePoint Server 2010 Search

Search Topology and Architecture. Search Administration for Developers. Customizing the Search Center. Programmatically Executing Search Queries. FAST Search.

Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010

Introducing BI in SharePoint 2010, Working with PowerPivot, Working with Excel Services, Using the Excel Services REST API, Building Dashboards, Working with Visio, Publishing Visio Diagrams to Visio Services.

Information Management Policies and Records Management

Working with Information Management Policies. Creation and Deployment of Custom Policies.