Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010

Chapter 4. WebParts and SharePoint Pages

Reading Key: If you are familiar with SharePoint 2007, you may find the topics of SharePoint Designer, editing an XSLTListViewWebPart, and the new tooling along with Visual WebParts interesting. The rest of the chapter, you can skim over.

In Chapters 1 and 2 of this book, you learned some SharePoint basics. In Chapter 3, you learned what every SharePoint developer needs to know—writing features and solutions.

As I mentioned in Chapter 3, features and solutions are what you would use to package almost any new functionality into SharePoint. Every SharePoint developer must know how to write features and solutions. This is especially important when you are moving code between different environments such as moving ...