Part 2. Developing SharePoint 2010 Web Parts

Part 2 covers 11 full chapters of Web Part development topics. In part 1, you learned what Web Parts are, how you can use them, and how you can configure applications with them. But, you’ll eventually end up with a scenario requiring you to build your own custom Web Part—and that’s why you’re reading this book.

We’ll start from the ground up by introducing you to Visual Studio 2010 and the SharePoint Development Tools. You’ll learn how to build Web Parts using best practices to avoid falling into traps, in many cases, using standard ASP.NET techniques. So if you’ve been building ASP.NET applications and controls, you’ll find quite a lot of common tasks and I’ll show you the differences.

The longest chapter of this book, chapter 5, will walk you through the various ways that you can make your Web Parts customizable. Next, in chapter 6 you’ll learn how to localize your Web Parts and use resources such as JavaScripts and images. An essential part of SharePoint development is how you package and deploy your solutions, and, in chapter 7, I’ll show you just that.