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This book is for every SharePoint developer who wants to build state-of-the-art solutions with Silverlight—within the enterprise, for consulting clients, or for commercial sale.

Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the SharePoint 2010 browser user interface while offering a far more compelling and engaging experience than conventional web pages. One proven technology gives them all the tools and resources they need to achieve these goals: Silverlight®. Using Silverlight and SharePoint together, developers can create state-of-the-art applications that utilize Silverlight’s outstanding user experience, and fully leverage the vast collections of business data already stored in corporate SharePoint deployments. In SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight, two SharePoint gurus collaborate to teach all the concepts and techniques needed to create robust Silverlight solutions for delivery through SharePoint 2010, and present fully documented code that demonstrates superior design and programming.

Bob German and Paul Stubbs draw on their extensive experience developing custom SharePoint business solutions with Silverlight and presenting on these technologies at leading Microsoft developer events. Writing for both experienced and new SharePoint developers, they quickly review the fundamentals of both SharePoint and Silverlight development, and then demonstrate how to use both platforms together to build uniquely powerful solutions. These include:

• Simple and connected Silverlight Web Parts (Chapter 5) Download Now »

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Pro SharePoint with jQuery is all about how to work seamlessly with the two popular technologies to create rich and interactive web parts, application pages, and more. In this book, author Phill Duffy provides complete, meaningful and realistic examples to really help you understand the key concepts and their integration points. Inside, you’ll find all the tools and resources you need to use jQuery to provide the next level of SharePoint functionality.

Learn what it takes to get ready to use jQuery, how to create rich, responsive, and highly functional user interfaces, how to call the SharePoint web services and work with HTML elements, and much more with Pro SharePoint with jQuery.

• Takes you through the different ways of integrating jQuery into your SharePoint environment
• Provides various levels of projects to show off the extensive capabilities of jQuery within SharePoint
• Teaches you how to provide rich, fluent and interactive jQuery-enabled user interfaces

What you’ll learn

• The basics of jQuery effects, including styling elements, generating HTML markup on the fly, and creating modal dialogs
• How to debug your jQuery
• How to create a task management application page that allows users to easily create, edit and move tasks across statuses Download Now »

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Build custom business applications for SharePoint with Visual Studio LightSwitch—including intuitive apps that don’t require a single line of code. This example-driven guide takes non-programmers step-by-step through the process of creating simple apps and utilities, and shows programmers familiar with C# or Visual Basic how to build customized applications with more functionality.

Discover how to build and test your applications quickly without a lot of expensive server hardware. Once you get up to speed with LightSwitch, you’ll create quality line-of-business applications tailored to specific customer needs in no time, whether you work in-house or for a vendor.

• Learn how the LightSwitch Presentation, Logic, and Storage layers work behind the scenes
• Configure your SharePoint server and workstation to work with this development environment
• Navigate the graphical environment and its various user screens
• Use examples to build simple single-function applications for search and data entry
• Expand your app’s capabilities by using LightSwitch extensions and Silverlight controls
• Connect your LightSwitch app to external data sources, such as Excel, SQL Server, SQLite, and cloud-based applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction Download Now »

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Get quickly up to speed on SharePoint Server 2010!

Covering all aspects of the SharePoint technology, this unique book-and-DVD combination provides expert guidance within each lesson in the book, which is then supplemented on the instructional DVD. The authors expose you to a variety of SharePoint Server 2010 topics, from organization concerns to training plans to programmer best practices, all aimed at helping you effortlessly find your way around SharePoint without a deep knowledge of the technology. You’ll quickly learn to configure and administer a site or site collection using this book-and-DVD package.

• Features informative SharePoint Server 2010 lessons in a book, each of which is reviewed on the accompanying DVD
• Puts you on your way to managing lists, sites, and page galleries and setting up Portal site connections and Site analytics
• Demonstrates how to provide offline availability, work with features and content types, and use galleries

SharePoint Server 2010 Administration 24-Hour Trainer contains a helpful DVD that reinforces the content of the book and also adds additional explanation and tips as well as showing exactly how the lesson goals can be achieved.

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Tips and techniques for becoming a successful SharePoint architect

If you’re eager to design and architect a successful deployment of SharePoint 2010, then this is the book for you. Packed with real-world experiences and solid processes, this guidebook provides you with everything you need to perform for designing and architecting enterprise portal services. Helpful examples examine the common design issues affecting SharePoint 2010 environments that can cause deployments to fail so you can learn what to avoid. Plus, key development and deployment issues are covered from an architecture perspective and backup and disaster recovery planning are described at length.

• Details the skills and attributes necessary in order to design and architect successful SharePoint 2010 deployments
• Provides real-world scenarios and helpful examples of various types of enterprise portal services
• Discusses corporate Intranet service, enterprise content management, team collaboration services, enterprise search service, and more
• Addresses marketing your SharePoint 2010 solution to users to ensure they are aware of the services you provide

With SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Architect’s Guidebook, you’ll quickly discover the requirements for designing a successful SharePoint 2010 deployment. Download Now »

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Hands-on solutions for common SharePoint 2010 challenges

Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions. A team of authors encourages you to customize SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box functionality so that you can build more complex solutions to these challenges. You ll discover intricate details and specific full-scale solutions that you can then implement to your own SharePoint 2010 solutions.

• Tackles a variety of SharePoint 2010 problems ranging from simple to complex, and offers sound solutions
• Details the SharePoint object model, reviews site provisioning solutions, and explores scalable applications
• Looks at UI design and branding, visual web parts, and PowerShell
• Discusses custom global navigation, field types, content types, and list templates

SharePoint 2010 Field Guide provides you with the right direction for building solutions to SharePoint 2010 problems.

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Hands-on solutions to common SharePoint problems

Although there are more than 100 million SharePoint users worldwide, there has been no reliable resource that provides detailed, full-scale solutions to a variety of SharePoint 2010 problems Download Now »