Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer’s Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Understanding SharePoint Development Choices
• Server-side development
• Farm solutions
• Sandboxed solutions
• Connecting to SharePoint through web services
• Client-side development
• Client Object Model
• Using jQuery
• Deploying and managing client-side customizations
• SharePoint development tools
• Visual Studio
• SharePoint Designer
• InfoPath Designer
• Choosing a development path
• Environment considerations
• Cloud Environments
• Governance, change management policies, and server access
• Solution reuse
• Scalability of solutions
• Application lifecycle management
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Building an Engaging Community Site
• Creating the community site
• Activating supporting features
• Site collection features
• Site features
• Create and configure the Community Landing Page
• Site permissions
• Community members
• Create Communities User Profile Property
• Communities Property Attributes
• Map Communities as a Managed Property
• Configure the Member page
• Create the Member page
• Add the People Search Core Results Web Part
• Configure members search query
• Configuring social Web Parts
• Note Board
• Tagging and Tag Clouds
• Configuring Rollup Web Parts
• Web Analytics Web Part – frequently accessed content
• Content Query Web Part – new content
• Content Query Web Part – highly rated content
• Creating an Enterprise Wiki
• Configure Enterprise Wiki sub-site
• Use of categories
• Metadata Navigation
• Activating the feature
• Configuring Metadata Navigation for Enterprise Wiki library
• Using the feature
• Site Navigation
• Summary

• Chapter 3: PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
• Introduction
• Setting up your Virtual Machine and running a test script
• Authoring, debugging, and executing script accessing farm settings with PowerGUI and PowerShell ISE
• Accessing advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality with external libraries
• Creating a custom PowerShell command (CmdLet)
• Creating a custom PowerShell Snap-In

• Chapter 4: Integrating Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010
• Understanding the benefits of integrating Silverlight with SharePoint
• Creating a SharePoint solution
• Preparing the development environment
• Setting up the development environment
• Discovering the rich controls offered by the Silverlight Toolkit
• Browsing themes with sample controls
• Preparing the server
• Browsing SharePoint Site collections
• Creating a Silverlight LOB (Line-of-Business) RIA
• Creating rich User eXperiences (UX)
• Building a Silverlight 4 RIA
• Adding a Silverlight Web Part
• Adding a Silverlight RIA as a shared document
• Adding a Silverlight Web Part to display a Silverlight RIA
• Working with many Silverlight Web Parts in a single page
• Understanding client and server code
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Interacting with Rich Media and Animations
• Bringing life to business applications and complex workflows
• Creating asset libraries in SharePoint 2010
• Adding content to an assets library
• Browsing the structure for SharePoint Asset Libraries
• Controlling the rich media library by using controls in a Visual Web Part
• Creating a Silverlight RIA rendered in a SharePoint Visual Web Part
• Linking a SharePoint Visual Web Part to a Silverlight RIA
• Adding a SharePoint Visual Web Part in a Web Page
• Organizing controls in a containing box
• Reading files from an assets library
• Working with interactive animations and effects
• Adding and controlling videos
• Video formats supported in Silverlight 4
• Adding and controlling sounds and music
• Audio formats supported in Silverlight 4
• Changing themes in Silverlight and SharePoint
• Summary

• Chapter 6: List Definitions and Content Types
• Introduction
• Creating a site column
• Extending an existing content type
• Creating custom content type using an object model
• Associating a document template with the content type
• Associating a workflow to a content type
• Creating an external content type
• Creating a list definition

• Chapter 7: Workflows
• Introduction
• Creating a sequential workflow
• Creating a site workflow with an initiation form
• Deploying an InfoPath form with the workflow
• Creating a task from the workflow
• Creating a custom task form

• Chapter 8: Introduction to Programming Windows Phone 7 with the SharePoint Client Services
• Security in SharePoint 2010
• Central Administration
• Site Permissions
• Using WebClient to get data from the Web
• Creating the base project
• Displaying WebClient results by adding a text block
• Creating a WebClient
• Requesting the contents of our SharePoint home page
• Displaying the raw HTML that is returned
• RSS feeds available from SharePoint
• Parsing XML in Windows Phone 7
• Replacing the text block display with a listbox
• Creating a simple view model for an RSS Item
• Parsing the XML
• Creating a list of RSS Items
• Binding the list of RSS Items to the listbox
• Simple page navigation
• Building a details view page
• Setting up a new event handler
• Building the URI for navigation
• Navigating to the details view page
• Handling loaded events on the details page
• Using the WebBrowser control to display the post
• Adding a WebBrowser to the details view
• Navigating to the post's URL
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7
• The difference between lists and libraries
• Searching content with iFilters
• Adding columns to a list
• Customizing the list item output
• Creating a project for our custom template
• Adding a mapped folder for the custom control template
• Creating the custom template
• Customizing the template
• Replacing the mobile home page
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Building a Windows Phone 7 Dashboard Application with SharePoint Data
• Forms-based authentication
• Connecting with forms based authentication
• Accessing the RSS feeds securely
• Removing anonymous access
• Managed Client Object Model on the desktop
• ECMAScript interface
• Silverlight interface
• WCF Data Services to the rescue
• REST
• WCF Data Services and OData
• ASP.NET Web Services
• Creating a dashboard application
• Creating the calendar
• Reading the calendar data
• Authentication
• Calendar data service
• Displaying the calendar data
• Organizing the calendar data
• Creating the task status site
• Reading the task status site data
• Displaying the task status overview chart
• Summary

• Index