Lesson 1:
SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap
Description:
Learn what's new for developers in SharePoint 2010. This module provides a good introduction to SharePoint 2010 for those with and without prior SharePoint experience. You'll learn the basics of SharePoint and how to get around including the administration story and leveraging the new PowerShell interface.
Fundamental SharePoint 2010 Architecture and Terminology
SharePoint Developer’s PowerShell Primer
New Features of SharePoint Designer 2010
Developing with Features and Solutions
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Lesson 2:
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools (SPTools)
Description:
Visual Studio 2010 introduces SharePoint development tools without any additional installers! In this module you’ll learn how to use the new tools effectively as well how to extend them.
Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint Development Tools
Packaging and Deployment
Designing projects in terms of SharePoint Project Items
Visual Studio 2010 [and SPTools] Extensibility
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Lesson 3:
Creating Sandboxed Solutions
Description:
Microsoft introduced the concept of sandboxed solutions which empower site collection owners to deploy custom code without access to the servers or involvement by the IT group. In this module you’ll learn how to create sandboxed solutions, the limitations that come along with them as well as how to break out of the sandbox.
Sandbox Architecture
Sandbox Solution Gallery
Creating and Testing a Sandboxed Solution
Limitations with Sandboxed Solutions
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Lesson 4:
Pages and Navigation
Description:
In this module you will learn how to create custom application pages as well as content pages and the details around customizing pages.
Application Pages
Adding Custom Actions for Navigation
Pages Templates and Customization (Ghosting)
Master Pages and Branding
Provisioning Site Pages
Designing Web Part Pages
Wiki Pages
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Lesson 5:
Developing Web Parts
Description:
In this module you will learn how to create custom Web Parts as well as address the complex scenarios such as creating custom verbs menus, custom editor parts and connecting two or more Web Parts together.
Persistent Properties
Custom Editor Parts
Web Parts Verbs
Web Parts Connections
Asynchronous Processing
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Lesson 6:
Creating Fields, Site Columns and Content Types
Description:
In this module you’ll learn how to create custom field types, field controls, site columns and content types as well as how to leverage them in custom solutions. In addition, you’ll also learn how to implement them in a repeatable fashion with the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010.
Custom Field Types
Creating custom Field Controls
Site Columns & Content Types
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Lesson 7:
Creating Lists & Event Handlers
Description:
In this module you will learn how to create lists and event handlers using the SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2010. This module will also learn about the new events and event handler options introduced in SharePoint 2010.
Creating a list instance with code
Creating a List Definition with SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating a List Definition with SPTools
Events and event receivers
Document Libraries and Document Templates
Site Definitions
Multilingual User Interface
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Lesson 8:
Accessing Data in Lists
Description:
Microsoft invested a considerable amount in SharePoint 2010 on ways to get data out of SharePoint lists. New to SharePoint is SPLinq, LINQ specifically used for querying and joining lists. In this module you will learn how to setup SPLinq and query lists as well as how to leverage ADO.NET Data Services to read and write to SharePoint lists via a REST-ful API.
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 Developers (SPLinq)
Reading & Writing Documents
OpenXML teaser to create Word doc
ADO.NET Data Services
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Lesson 9:
Client-side Programming
Description:
Another big investment area in SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft is the introduction of the client object model. This object model extends to .NET, Silverlight and JavaScript enabling developers an easier way to work with SharePoint than the included Web services. In this module you will learn how to leverage each of these three client object models as well as how to utilize ASP.NET AJAX in SharePoint projects.
.NET Client Object Model
Silverlight Client Object Model
JavaScript Client Object Model
ASP.NET AJAX Integration
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Lesson 10:
Developing Workflows
Description:
In this module you will learn how to create custom workflows for SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. In addition, you will learn how to incorporate custom forms into your workflow solutions.
SharePoint Integration with Workflow Foundation
Starting and monitoring WF instances
Creating reusable workflow templates with SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating workflow templates with Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools
Incorporating ASP.NET and InfoPath Forms to Workflows
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Lesson 11:
SharePoint Security
Description:
Every developer needs to have a firm grasp on how security (authentication & authorization) works in SharePoint as with any application. Microsoft has added a new security model to SharePoint 2010: claims based authentication. In this module you will learn how claims based authentication works, how to set it up and interact with it programmatically as well as how to create a custom claims provider.
Understanding SharePoint Security
Claims Based Authentication
Programming with Claims Based Security
Creating a custom claims provider
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Lesson 12:
Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
Description:
Microsoft first introduced the concept of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint 2007 to consume data from external sources. In SharePoint 2010 Microsoft improved on this platform by adding the ability to read/write data to these external systems as well as expand on the available data sources by adding a new concept: the .NET Connector. In this module you’ll learn how to consume and interact with external data sources as well as how to create a custom .NET Connector.
Overview and Architecture
Using the BCS Server API
Creating External Content Types
Creating External Lists
Creating .NET Connectors
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Lesson 13:
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Description:
Microsoft’s approach to ECM is to encourage more people to participate in ECM solutions as well as provide the tools for records managers to manage and analyze the large quantities of content. In this module you will learn about Microsoft’s ECM strategy within SharePoint Server 2010. You will also see how you can leverage SharePoint Server 2010 to create robust content-centric solutions using Web Content Management.
Web Content Management
Enterprise Metadata & Taxonomies
In-Place Records Management
Document Sets
Unique Document IDs
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Lesson 14:
Business Intelligence (BI)
Description:
Similar to ECM, Microsoft took the approach in SharePoint 2010 to enable users to create business intelligence solutions throughout sites. In this module you will learn how to leverage the included charting Web Parts, Excel Services and the BI Center template. In addition, you will also learn how to how to create custom KPI’s, scorecards and dashboards using PerformancePoint services, now included in SharePoint Server 2010.
The Chart Web Part
Excel Services
BI Center
SQL Server Reporting Services integration
SQL Server Analysis Services integration
Performance Point Services
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