Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer*

Module 1

Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Development Platform
This module describes the SharePoint 2010 development platform and the benefits and features that it offers to developers.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform
• Lesson 2: SharePoint 2010 Object Hierarchy
• Lesson 3: Working with SharePoint 2010 Objects

Lab : Developing with the SharePoint 2010 Object Hierarchy

• Exercise 1: Creating SharePoint 2010 Application Pages by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Exercise 2: Enumerating SharePoint 2010 Farm Hierarchies
• Exercise 3:  Manipulating Properties of Objects in the SharePoint Farm

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe SharePoint 2010 as a development platform.
• Describe the SharePoint 2010 object hierarchy from the perspective of a developer.

Work with SharePoint 2010 objects programmatically.

Module 2

Using SharePoint 2010 Developer Tools
This module describes how to use development tools that are integrated with the SharePoint 2010 development platform, such as Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Developing SharePoint Sites by Using SharePoint Designer 2010
• Lesson 2: Developing SharePoint Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Lesson 3: Packaging and Deploying SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Lab : Using SharePoint 2010 Developer Tools

• Exercise 1: Creating Document Libraries by Using SharePoint Designer 2010
• Exercise 2: Creating SharePoint List Definitions and Instances by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Exercise 3:Packaging Features and Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Develop SharePoint sites by using SharePoint Designer 2010.
• Develop SharePoint solutions by using Visual Studio 2010.
• Package and deploy SharePoint 2010 solutions.

Module 3

Developing SharePoint 2010 Web Parts
This module describes how to develop Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 solutions.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Developing Standard Web Parts
• Lesson 2: Developing Connected Web Parts
• Lesson 3: Developing Visual Web Parts

Lab : Creating SharePoint 2010 Web Parts by Using Visual Studio 2010

• Exercise 1: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging a Simple Web Part by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Exercise 2: Using SharePoint Components in a Web Part
• Exercise 3: Creating a Visual Web Part by Using Visual Studio 2010

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Develop standard Web Parts.
• Develop connected Web Parts.
• Develop Visual Web Parts.

Module 4

Working with SharePoint Objects on the Server
This module describes how to develop code that uses the server-side objects provided by the SharePoint 2010 development platform.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Working with SharePoint Sites Programmatically               
• Lesson 2: Working with SharePoint Lists Programmatically
• Lesson 3: Working with List Data Programmatically

Lab : Creating and Manipulating Server-Side Objects

• Exercise 1: Creating and Securing Sites Programmatically
• Exercise 2: Creating Lists Programmatically
• Exercise 3: Retrieving Secured Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create and manipulate SharePoint sites.
• Create and manipulate SharePoint lists.

Retrieve, add, update, and delete SharePoint list data

Module 5
Creating Event Receivers and Application Settings
This module describes how to develop event receivers and manipulate application settings for SharePoint 2010 solutions.
Lessons

• Lesson 1: Creating Event Receivers
• Lesson 2: Working with Web.Config Programmatically

Lab : Creating Event Receivers and Web.Config Modifications

• Exercise 1: Creating List Event Receivers
• Exercise 2: Creating Feature Receivers to Modify Web.Config
• Exercise 3: Creating Web Event Receivers

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create event receivers for SharePoint 2010 solutions.
• Add, modify, and retrieve Web.config settings programmatically for use in your SharePoint solutions.

Module 6

Developing Solutions by Using Business Connectivity Services
This module describes how to develop solutions that access external data by using Business Connectivity Services.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Business Connectivity Services Overview
• Lesson 2: Developing External Content Types and Lists by Using SharePoint Designer
• Lesson 3: Developing Business Connectivity Services Solutions by Using Visual Studio 2010

Lab : Building Business Connectivity Services Solutions

• Exercise 1: Creating External Content Types and Lists by Using SharePoint Designer 2010
• Exercise 2: Creating Business Data Catalog Models by Using Visual Studio 2010

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe Business Connectivity Services.
• Develop external content types and lists by using SharePoint Designer 2010.
• Develop Business Connectivity Services solutions by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Module 7

Developing SharePoint 2010 Workflows
This module describes how to develop workflows as part of SharePoint 2010 solutions.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer
• Lesson 2: Creating Workflows with Visual Studio 2010

Lab : Creating Workflows for SharePoint 2010

• Exercise 1: Creating Workflows by Using SharePoint Designer
• Exercise 2: Creating a Sequential Workflow by Using Visual Studio 2010

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create workflows for SharePoint by using SharePoint Designer 2010.
• Create workflows for SharePoint by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Module 8

Working with Client-Based APIs for SharePoint 2010
This module describes how to develop code that uses the client-side objects provided by the SharePoint 2010 development platform.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model
• Lesson 2: Working with the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model in .NET Applications

Lab : Developing .NET Applications by Using the SharePoint Client Object Model

• Exercise 1: Creating a SharePoint 2010 Site, List, and List Items Using the Client Object Model
• Exercise 2: Building and Using the Console Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model.
• Work with the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model in Microsoft .NET Framework applications.

Module 9

Developing Interactive User Interfaces
This module describes how to develop server ribbon controls and client dialogs for the new user interface platform of SharePoint 2010.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Creating Menu Items and Ribbon Controls
• Lesson 2: Creating Client-Side Dialogs

Lab : Developing User Interface Components for SharePoint 2010 Solutions

• Exercise 1: Creating a Site Actions Menu Item
• Exercise 2: Creating a Ribbon Item
• Exercise 3: Creating a Client-Side Dialog

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create menu items and ribbon controls.
• Create client-side dialogs.

Module 10

Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint
This module describes how to develop Silverlight applications that are integrated with SharePoint 2010 data and solutions.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Creating Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010
• Lesson 2: Deploying and Debugging Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010

Lab : Developing Silverlight Applications by using the SharePoint Client Object Model

• Exercise 1: Creating a Silverlight Application
• Exercise 2: Developing the Silverlight Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Develop Silverlight applications for SharePoint 2010.
• Deploy and debug Silverlight applications for SharePoint 2010.

Module 11

Developing Sandboxed Solutions
This module describes how to develop sandboxed solutions for SharePoint 2010.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Sandboxing and User Solutions
• Lesson 2: Restrictions for Sandboxed Solutions

Lab : Creating Sandboxed Solutions for SharePoint 2010

• Exercise 1: Creating a Sandboxed Solution by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Exercise 2: Investigating Allowed and Disallowed Operations in Sandboxed Solutions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Develop sandboxed solutions.
• Describe what is allowed and what is not allowed in sandboxed solutions.

Module 12

Working with SharePoint Server Profiles and Taxonomy APIs
This module describes how to develop code that uses the taxonomic and user profile services of the SharePoint 2010 development platform.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: User Profiles
• Lesson 2: Taxonomies

Lab : Working with User Profiles and Taxonomies Programmatically

• Working with User Profiles and Taxonomies Programmatically
• Exercise 1: Managing User Profiles
• Exercise 2: Working with User Profiles Programmatically

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create, retrieve, and manipulate user profiles and user profile properties.
• Create and retrieve taxonomic terms.

Module 13

Developing Content Management Solutions
This module describes how to develop code that uses the content management services of the SharePoint 2010 development platform.

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Developing Enterprise Content Management Solutions
• Lesson 2: Developing Web Content Management Solutions

Lab : Branding SharePoint Sites

• Exercise 1: Customizing Master Pages
• Exercise 2: Applying a Theme to a SharePoint Site

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe how to develop enterprise content management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
• Describe how to develop Web content management features Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Module 14

Advanced ASP.NET Concepts for SharePoint
This module helps you to review the essential information regarding ASP.NET including how to improve performance for high-scale sites like SharePoint. This module covers concepts around view state, caching, and session state and provides an opportunity to learn to make appropriate choices.

Lessons

• Server Memory
• Server CPU
• Transfer and Client

Lab : Page Size and View State

• Using Fiddler to Observe Page Loading
• Using Fiddler to Examine Page Size
• Reducing Page Size

Lab : Memory and Performance

• Capturing a Memory Profile
• Reviewing the Report
• Resolving Memory Issues and Retest

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review the fundamentals of memory management.
• Identify the key things to drive high CPU utilization.
• Identify factors impacting client performance.

Module 15

Designing for User Experience
This module provides the key criteria and structure necessary to make appropriate decisions about what kind of user interface component to use based on the needs of the solution.

Lessons

• SharePoint Background
• Page Parts
• Pages
• Globalization and Localization
• Designing for Accessibility

Lab : Selecting Page Parts

• Plant Summary Page
• Plant Configuration Page
• Employee List
• Line Status

Lab : Selecting Page Types

• Line Dashboard
• Manager’s Dashboard
• Alert Notification

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review the fundamentals of SharePoint architecture and how it impacts the page design experience.
• Determine the appropriate page part in SharePoint for a given situation.
• Determine the appropriate page in SharePoint for a given situation.
• Identify the considerations for globalizing and localizing your applications.
• Determine the design impact of WCAG standards for projects requiring accessibility compliance.

Module 16

Designing for Data
This module explains defining what storage will look like. This module discusses the information about data design critical to the performance and accessibility of the solution. The module also covers scalability issues related to data as well as the structural components such as the use of lists, list definitions, content types, and fields.

Lessons

• List and Library Fundamentals
• Large Data Strategies
• SharePoint Data Management

Lab : Time Tracking

• Creating List Views
• Indexing Key Columns

Lab : Invoice Management

• Establishing an Invoice Content Type
• Creating a Solution for Storing Invoices
• Testing the Solution for Storing Invoices

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review the fundamentals of foundation for operating with data in SharePoint.
• Evaluate data size to arrive at potential solutions for large data storage needs.
• Manage data to arrive at an appropriate data access strategy.

Module 17

Designing Data Capture and Integration
This module discusses strategies on how to get the data into the system. This module covers the techniques for capturing data – including office integration and integrating to other systems with BCS.

Lessons

• Designing for Data Capture
• Designing for Integration

Lab : Creating External Lists

• Connecting to the Data Source
• Defining the External Content Types
• Defining the External Lists
• Setting Security for the Content Types
• Defining an Association

Lab : Creating an InfoPath Form

• Deciding the kind of form to create
• Creating the Header fields
• Creating the Lines
• Publishing the Form to a SharePoint Library

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Apply the appropriate approach to data capture in SharePoint.
• Identify the integration options and technologies that are built into the SharePoint platform including the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

Module 18

Designing Artefacts
This module discusses items that will need to be implemented in SharePoint to tie the user interface and the data structure together. The module covers information about artifacts to begin the transformation of the abstract design into a specific set of deliverables that need to be created through SharePoint.

Lessons

• Customer Requirements
• Creating Sites

Lab : Incident Response Site

• Evaluating the Requirements
• Designing the Solution

Lab : Expense Reports

• Evaluating the Requirements
• Designing the Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement the techniques for evaluating and refining customer requirements.
• Determine an approach for matching customer requirements to SharePoint artefacts.

Module 19

Designing Processing Solutions
This module covers the details of options for developing solutions. The module provides decision criteria for the determination of sandbox versus full trust (or a hybrid of the two) deployments. The module also provides details for making decisions about processing including how to address long running operations and how to decide the appropriate processing solutions.

Lessons

• Multi-Server Configurations
• In and Out of the Sandbox
• Getting Work Done
• Working with Workflows

Lab : Engineering System

• Evaluating Client Capabilities and Requirements
• Evaluating Sandbox Capabilities and Requirements
• Evaluating Farm Deployment Capabilities and Requirements

Lab : Sensor Report

• Designing Data Access for Sensor Data
• Designing a Processing Solution for the Report
• Designing a Processing Solution for Approval

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the processing solutions and approaches that must be created when working in a multi-server environment.
• Identify the benefits and limitations of the SharePoint Sandbox features.
• Determine the choices available for in-page, client, event receiver, workflow, and timer execution models.
• Evaluate how SharePoint workflows are executed and the factors impacting design.

Module 20

Designing Packaging
This module addresses the first order problem of factoring the solution into features and packages so that it can be upgraded. This module covers the baseline skills of determining the number, scope, and dependency of features and determining the right number of packages.

Lessons

• Understanding the Packaging Lifecycle
• Establish Design Principles

Lab : Building a Business Document Solution

• Designing a Solution
• Create the Final Solution

Lab : Working with Dependencies

• Creating a Common Assembly
• Creating a dependent Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain how packages are created and delivered.
• Determine the size of features to be able to effectively maintain the given solution.

Module 21

Designing a Development Strategy
This module focuses on two key items necessary to deploy larger solutions, configuration and logging. This module provides the students a platform to expand the scope of the solution and focus on issues related to dozens of projects on a server, each with its own approach to configuration and logging.

Lessons

• Developing for the Enterprise
• The Role of Logging
• Application Flexibility and Configuration

Lab : Team-based Logging and Configuration

• List based configuration appraisal
• SharePoint List based configuration
• SharePoint List based logging
• Configure logging level

Lab : Operational Logging

• Add Logging to SharePoint ULS

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify the team development needs for SharePoint.
• Explain operational and diagnostic logging including the differences and the options for recording.
• Determine the options for storing configuration in a SharePoint environment.

Module 22

Developing Versioning and Deployment
This module delves into the challenges of versioning in a SharePoint environment. The module also addresses deployment issues because most deployment issues are related to the versioning process.

Lessons

• Application Lifecycle
• Versioning Strategy
• Upgrading

Lab : Versioning Assemblies

• Defining Base Version
• Upgrading the Assembly

Lab : Feature Upgrade

• Creating Upgrade Manage Page
• Adding Feature to Upgrade
• Upgrade Feature

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review the fundamentals of the software development lifecycle and its relation to configuration management.
• Determine the approach for versioning a given application.
• Address specific concerns for upgrading a given application that has been deployed to production.

Module 23

Designing Information Architecture and Navigation
This module helps to draw the distinction between information architecture and branding topics. The module helps to separate taxonomy (organization) from navigation (user interface).

Lessons

• Designing an Information Architecture
• Planning for Software Boundaries
• Designing Content Navigation

Lab : Categorizing Information

• Card Sort
• Design Content Types and Site Columns

Lab : Implementing Farm Level Navigation

• Deploying a custom SiteMap
• Adding an ASP Menu to the Master Page

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Determine the technique necessary to develop an information architecture based on SharePoint.
• Explain the scalability concerns for individual items in SharePoint in the context of information architecture.
• Determine the appropriate navigation solution for a given application.

Module 24

Designing Branding and Customization
This module covers branding options, including what tools can be used to customize the appearance. The module moves us to including the users and power users of the ultimate solution.

Lessons

• Introduction to Branding
• Themes
• Master Pages
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Tools Overview
• Implementing SharePoint Branding

Lab : Deploying Custom Branding

• Deploying a Custom Site Column and Content Type
• Using custom CSS
• Deploying a custom master page

Lab : Deploying a Custom Content Type

• Deploying a Custom Site Column and Content Type

Module 25

Designing SecurityThis module describes how to design security for performance and provide a holistic view so to evaluate security implications and tradeoffs.  This module also outlines the new Claims based authentication in SharePoint 2010 and how Forms Based Authentication fits into this model.

Lessons

• Security within SharePoint
• Using an Alternate Identity Store
• Forms-Based Authentication
• Deeper look at SharePoint Claims

Lab : Setting Up a Customer Service Site

• Setting Up the Authentication Provider
• Creating an FBA-Claims Site
• Optional Exercise: Viewing Claims for an FBA User

Lab : Solving a Security Issue

• Understanding the Scope and Relating it to Configuration
• Designing a Security Strategy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the role of security in SharePoint.
• Evaluate the impact of alternate identity stores on a given security approach.
• Discuss the challenges and impact of forms-based authentication toward solving security concerns.

Module 26

Designing for Page and Data Access Performance
This module discusses page and data access performance and how to plan for a high performance site.

Lessons

• Optimizing SharePoint Page Performance
• Analyzing Performance with the SharePoint Developer Dashboard
• Optimizing SharePoint Data Access Performance

Lab : Using Developer Dashboard

• Using the SharePoint Server 2010 Developer Dashboard to Capture Performance Metrics
• Leveraging the SharePoint Server 2010 Search API for Large Data Queries

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain how SharePoint pages are built for optimized performance.
• Evaluate pages with performance issues in terms of elapsed time as well as database impact by using the SharePoint Developer Dashboard.
• Determine an appropriate SharePoint data access technique to deliver SharePoint data quickly and efficiently for a given scenario.

Module 27

Designing Testing Strategy
This module discusses what we do at the end of the development process, testing. The module also covers functional testing and scale/performance testing.

Lessons

• Testing Concepts
• Unit, Integration, Regression Testing
• Performance Testing

Lab : Designing a Testing Strategy

• Unit Testing
• Performance Testing
• Load Testing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Evaluate the core testing concepts and their impact on quality.
• Evaluate the core concepts of unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
• Test the performance of a given solution.