Chapter 3. Building Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010
This chapter covers
- Using Visual Studio 2010
- Taking advantage of SharePoint Developer Tools
- Building Visual Web Parts
- Building traditional Web Parts
You should now have a fairly good understanding of what Web Parts are and how end users will work with them. It’s time to start building some of your own. Previous versions of SharePoint lacked the tools and applications to create a good development experience, which made it hard to be productive. You had to use tools provided by the community, create your own, or do a lot of manual editing of XML-based manifests and configuration files. The new SharePoint Developer Tools that ship with Visual Studio 2010 solve these problems and allow you to focus on the fun part: development.
Developing Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 isn’t just about wiring up components in a control that you can then use to build pages or applications in SharePoint as you might do when working in ASP.NET applications. Solutions built for SharePoint need a few extra steps before they can be invoked in the host environment. This chapter shows you how to build, package, and deploy SharePoint Web Part solutions using the new development tools for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. These tools allow you to focus on programming tasks rather than packaging the solution.