Chapter 19. Beginning Web Part Development

With the flexibility of powerful prewritten Web Parts, Web Part pages, custom lists and libraries, browser-based editing, SharePoint Designer-based editing, data sources, Web Part connections, and connectivity to Microsoft Office applications, it’s amazing how much you can do with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) without programming. Inevitably, however, no tool—or set of tools—can do everything. And with software, that’s the time to think about writing your own code.

In a SharePoint environment, writing your own code usually means writing solutions such as Web Parts, custom workflows, and master ...

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