Chapter 7: Creating Your First SharePoint 2010 Application
What You’ll Learn In This Chapter:
- Creating a solution that reads and writes data to and from a list using the server-side object model and Visual Web parts
- Building and deploying the solution using Visual Studio 2010
- Using the Chart Web part to render list data
- Integrating the different Visual Web parts in the solution on a Web part page
In this chapter, you’ll work through the software design lifecycle with the end goal of building a SharePoint application. You’ve already built a number of smaller applications over the past few chapters, so you should think of this chapter as bringing some of this learning together into one application. However, in this chapter, what you will do is use a subset of the things you’ve learned over the past few chapters and apply them to the software design process. That is, you’ll start out with a relatively simple set of requirements and, from there, design and deploy an application that will satisfy those requirements. For the most part, you’ll be sticking to things you’ve learned thus far.
You’ll first get a sense for the set of requirements for what will eventually be a simple sales reporting solution. Next, you’ll create an architecture that will satisfy the design of the application. You’ll use lists as the data source, and Web parts as the point of entry for the user. And finally, you’ll traverse the major design components of your application. There will be three parts to the ...
