Chapter 4: Common Developer Tasks in SharePoint 2010
What You’ll Learn In This Chapter:
- Creating different types of Web parts, including standard, Visual, and Data View Web parts
- Understanding site columns and content types, and how you can use them when creating lists
- Understanding how to interact with SharePoint and data in SharePoint using the native APIs
- Creating and editing site pages and master pages using SharePoint Designer
So far, you’ve become familiar with SharePoint and learned how to get started with installation and setting up your development environment. Now that you have a sense of what SharePoint is all about, you’re no doubt hungrily awaiting some coding exercises.
This chapter discusses a set of common development tasks for beginning SharePoint developers. Although this examination will not be comprehensive, it will get you started and introduce you to a set of key tasks that you will likely do over and over again in your SharePoint development career.
The discussions in this chapter have been included as the result of first thinking about common developer tasks and then culling information from community conversations with SharePoint MVP friends. This has resulted in the following set of developer tasks that will be addressed in this chapter:
- Creating Web parts
- Creating site columns, content types, and lists
- Accessing and managing data
- Creating Event receivers
- Creating aspx pages
- Creating master pages
This chapter explores each of these developer tasks ...
