Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development

COMMON DEVELOPER TASKS

Although everything is technically an “app” in SharePoint 2013, you will find yourself building different types of apps, and when doing so, you will run into several of the same tasks many times over. It is helpful to identify these familiar tasks so that you can hone the skills associated with them, as you’ll be using them often. Some of the more common tasks you’ll likely find yourself doing are as follows:

• Creating Web Parts
• Creating SharePoint-hosted apps
• Accessing and managing data
• Creating cloud-hosted apps
• Creating event receivers
• Creating ASPX pages
• Creating master pages

Let’s walk through each of these tasks and explore what they are and the skills required for your success in completing them.

Creating Web Parts

One of the most common developer tasks you’ll likely engage in is the creation and deployment of a Web Part. This historically has been the key artifact that a developer develops and deploys to SharePoint.

In SharePoint 2013, you work primarily with three different types of Web Parts: Standard, Visual, and Silverlight. Many other SharePoint artifacts might feel like a Web Part, but in many cases these are ASP.NET objects, containers, or IFRAMEs that provide dynamic client-side code rendering and pass-through capabilities to other Web Parts or applications, or views to list data. Because of the rich designer capabilities, the Visual and Silverlight Web Parts will likely be your first choice; however, this section covers all three.

Standard ...