Office 2010 Workflow: Developing Collaborative Solutions

Chapter 9. Exploring the SharePoint Object Model

In this chapter you'll use the SharePoint object model to access lists and list items from code. There are hundreds of classes in the object model, so I won't be able to cover all of them. However, I'll explain some of the more commonly used classes.

Creating a SharePoint Project in Visual Studio

To demonstrate the flexibility of Visual Studio, you'll create the project differently than you did in the previous chapter. Create an empty SharePoint project as shown in Figure 9-1. Enter the project name as WF_Chapter09.

Figure 9.1. Creating an empty SharePoint project

Tip

As I explained in the previous chapter, ...