SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform

Chapter 11. Using Web Controls

While Web Parts and ASP.NET application pages are easy to create and deploy, experienced SharePoint developers agree that building professional SharePoint applications is anything but trivial.

To address this incongruity, in this chapter we will walk through the most important SharePoint web controls that are needed to build individual custom applications or SharePoint Web Parts.

The main part of this chapter describes the most common SharePoint user interface (UI) controls. They include such powerful controls as the SPGridView control and the new SPRibbon control—both are highly useful when creating applications with a great user experience.

This chapter covers

• Field controls

• Input form controls

• Picker and selector controls ...