Best Practices
• A developer should make sure that out-of-the-box SharePoint 2010 features do not provide capabilities that can meet end user requests before diving into Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010. This is no easy task because SharePoint 2010, as shown throughout this book, has many new and powerful features, such as calculated columns, lookup columns, external data, workflows, alerts, and other tools that might be good enough for end users to start with, rather than over-building a solution.
• When working with Designer 2010, it is recommended to not install Designer 2010 on production servers but to install it on a workstation or on a development or test SharePoint 2010 server.
• Always use a nonproduction server to develop and ...
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