9. SharePoint Web Parts

Introduction to Web Parts

Web parts are a great way to structure your SharePoint site to make different data or different applications accessible on the same page. Think about a SharePoint intranet site that is used by executives to get sales reports on their different products, headcount information for their different divisions, and the latest financial news. Because executives usually want to have all the important information in one place, web parts are a great solution to have all this data displayed on a single SharePoint web part page. The page could have a web part showing the reports from a reporting server or analysis server, another web part showing divisional headcount information, and a web part for reading ...

Get SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.