Chapter 2. SharePoint Basics

Reading Key: If you're familiar with SharePoint 2007, in this chapter you might find the various UI improvements, the new central administration layout, and web.config changes in SharePoint 2010 interesting. I suggest that you skim the chapter even if you are familiar with SharePoint 2007.

In the previous chapter, you configured your basic SharePoint development machine. Before you move any further, ensure that you take a snapshot of that machine so you can get back to that position at any point in this book. In this chapter I will walk you through the basics of SharePoint. When I say basics, I mean user level features that end users will use through the browser. I will also talk a little bit about what you the developer ...

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