I am a .NET developer with a few years of experience in Winforms, WPF and some ASP.NET with C#. What would be the best way for me to go about learning sharepoint, as a developer? I would be Learning on my spare time, My work currently has nothing to do with sharepoint, but I have seen a bit of what sharepoint can do and I felt that It is a technology worth investing my time in.
I am interested In books, videos, possible training, webcasts, videos, blogs, forums, communities and any advice you may have.
I made a pretty detailed list here that I have accumulated over the past 5 years trying to learn SharePoint - I hope it helps:
Best way to learn SharePoint
I always receive the emails about SharePoint training. But it needs to pay $100+.
Here is the one.
http://elearning.left-brain.com/event/preparing-for-sharepoint-v15?code=EP3328D1
One of the ways to get started learning about SharePoint is to use Sharepoint Hands Labs. You can read about it here SharePoint 2010 Hands on Labs. Also interesting tutorials are Sharepoint Labs on Codeplex and
SharePoint Server Virtual Labs on MSDN.
Good luck!
I took the official Microsoft SharePoint 2010 developer course and that was very useful. Several different companies offer it but it isn't cheap. Also SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 was a big help as well. Also find out if your city has a SharePoint user group in it. Mine does and it is a great way to network with other SharePoint users and developers.
Here are a couple resources that may help you get started.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sp2010devtrainingcourse.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557253.aspx (Download for the examples is near the top)
And I would likely start with either a custom event receiver or a visual web part and just work on accessing data in a list.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728093.aspx (Custom event receiver that prevents deletes on a list).
For books I like
Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development
Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs
Also as a first step you should install SharePoint and get a feel for it, once you do that look at SharePoint designer as it can accomplish a lot of tasks that users normally want.
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I want to study Sharepoint. But if I create a project in VS 2010 it will shows an error message like "Sharepoint server is not installed in this machine". So is there any free Sharepoint server or service available? Is there any other way to start learning sharepoint 2010.
SharePoint is a very demanding platform to work with, ensure you have hardware matching the specifications, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx.
Working with crappy hw, virtual drives and so on will cause a lot of pain and consume loads of time. Think of learning SharePoint and SharePoint development as an investment.
However, if you just want to play with it for a bit follow this guide for installing SP on Windows 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx
It do require x64
Download SharePoint 2010 Foundation since it's free. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263910.aspx#tab=1
Cheers
Cloudshare (www.cloudshare.com) is the easiest and fastest way to get setup using SharePoint. It's about $60/month, but you get a machine pre-installed with SharePoint, SQL Server, and Windows Server. All you need, and you don't have to do a thing!
Also, if you're looking for something a bit cheaper, try Office365 w/SharePoint. It won't give you every feature, but it's less than $10/month per user, so it might be what you're looking for?
Two avenues to try:
Free sharepoint service: http://www.freesharepoint.com/
Trial Sharepoint 2010: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/Try-It.aspx
Have a look here. There are VHDs available for download to have a play with.
[edit] If you can't find your way around VHDs best place to start would be getting your hands on WSS4 (Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation). WSS is a free version of sharepoint as opposed to full whack MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) and a good place to start playing.
I highly recommend SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course from Microsoft.
A SharePoint development rig can be pricey. Check out the free trial at cloudshare.com. money well spent...currently 49 a month.. Removes the headaches of maintaining the environment so u can focus on Dev work.
As mentioned in the other posts you should have a look at MSDN to get started with the SharePoint Framework itself.
Cloudshare.com is offering SharePoint developer systems hosted in the cloud. There is a 14 day trialversion.
Cloudshare is great, it's fast and it's offering a lot of templates for SharePoint developer Farms.
One of the best books for SharePoint development is "Inside Microsoft SharePoint" from Microsoft Press.
NothingButSharePoint.com is also a great point to get started with SharePoint regardless to your profession. There is a lot of content for Users/IT-Pros/Developers
Thorsten
There is a really useful script which helps to setup all the environment you need to start development for SP (SP2010 trial, VS, SPD, Office and so on). So, you can just start it, enter some input details and right after it finishes you can start development.
It is absolutely free (if my memory serves me well, it is 180 days trial).
I highly recommend it for quick start.
SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script
I'm a developer with 5 years of MCMS development and without a single know how with SharePoint.
I want to use the CMS capabilities of Sharepoint to migrate my applications but I DONT KNOW HOW TO START!!!!!!
In my actual projects i have a Visual Studio solution with all my code, my templates and my usercontrols...
I cannot see how can i do the same thing with Sharepoint :(
I want to customise my site like i did before, i want to create pages based on templates like i did before.
Anyone knows where i can find a walkthrough that explains me that?
Thank U All.
Unfortunately I think you are going to have to learn SharePoint. Even the WCM features are a big topic, and probably the best book is Andrew Connell's "SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development" - I don't think a 2010 version is available yet. The good news is that I think the MCMS product had a big influence on how the SharePoint WCM features were architected, so the underlying principles will be similar.
SharePoint 2010 has a Visual Web Part that will encapsulate a user control which might make the transition easier. Also see my answer to this question about converting an ASP.NET site to SharePoint which might have some relevant information.
Most of the information about converting from MCMS to SharePoint is for the 2007 version of the product. This two-part article on MSDN seems to be the best starting point.
I cannot see how can i do the same thing with Sharepoint :( I want to customise my site like i did before, i want to create pages based on templates like i did before.
Problem is, SharePoint is not MCMS, no matter how Microsoft tries to brand it as its successor.
Creating sites in SharePoint is almost opposite of how things we were done in MCMS were you build from the ground up using ASPX templates, user controls and placeholders. In SharePoint, you'll have to strip out most of the OOB stuff you don't need. The recommended approach to custom development is through web parts, CAML, and the SharePoint APIs.
I recently started at a new job where I'll be working with Sharepoint 2010 to set up (or actually upgrade) an intranet. Unfortunately, I have no experience with SP2010, and the last time I touched SP2007 (or a virtual server for that matter) was four years ago.
I'll be attending a course soon, but until then I have to make myself useful. I've already managed to install a working Sp2010 server and have played around with some web applications and site collections, and trying to find out how Sharepoint Designer works, but I don't really have an idea what I'm doing or what goals I should set for myself to actually learn useful stuff.
I've also watched some tutorials, but most are really problem-specific (problems I don't have yet) or dive into the code (which I won't, probably).
So.. where to start?
There are a lot of great training videos on Channel9.
Sahil Malik's book is organized as what are the basic things all SharePoint 2010 developers need to know. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-SharePoint-2010-Solutions-Professionals/dp/1430228652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283973447&sr=8-1
It is a good place to start.
I would suggest video tutorials because:
They are FREE!
They give you more context than just reading what to do.
A quick search will get you specific topics.
Check out Bing videos on SharePoint 2010. There's lots of great content out there to get you going fast.
when i started with SP2010, i began by searching:
New features in Lists and Document
Libraries New search capabilities
DocumentSets (they are very interesting!)
Office Web Apps (Excel and Word web access)
A little bit of FAST Search Engine
Integration with silverlight
Changes in the object model
Workflows
New tools in VS2010
(MSDN, codeplex, codeproject, stackoverflow, and several blogs from Sharepoint MVPs are good places to look for)
I don't know if this would help but that's where I started.. if you need specific help you can find several groups in linkedin.. there are a lots of MVPs helping..
Good luck!
I would recommend you to check out the SharePoint guidance on codeplex. It comes with at sample portal application that is explained and with best practices and guidance for creating a SharePoint site. I am sure that this will provider vital information and knowledge for your project.
Kr., Bernd.
Follow the below link to learn sharepoint. It contains sharepoint tutorial videos and all.
http://www.fastsharepoint.com/
Basically i started my sharepoint learning with the following examples:
Create a feature to change site title
Create a feature to change site theme
Create a feature with feature stapling
Create a feature that activates another feature
Create a site through code
Create a list through code
Populate a list with data through code
Create a lookup column in list through code
These are the basic examples that you can understand what is Sharepoint as a beginner.
Please see the below link for more beginner programs:
http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/SharePoint-Tutorials.aspx
Litso install a dev box on you machine and get started.
Try doing some migration from one server to the other.
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I would like to learn SharePoint. Are there any jobs for SharePoint professionals in this recession time? I have .NET knowledge.
To say there is a demand for SharePoint would be an understatement. Because prior to 2007 SP developers were very few and far between, there are precious few people out there that as of now have enough SP experience to work on the really complex projects.
However, SharePoint is not going away, and will be growing even further with the release of MSSPS 2010 next year. If you're a good ASP.Net developer looking to find a niche, then SharePoint would be a good way to go.
My #1 tip for new SharePoint developers: Download the WSPBuilder Visual Studio add-on, and install it before you start any custom SharePoint work. By seeing how the add-on structures your projects and adds SharePoint capital-F Features to SP Solution Packages, it will make it a LOT easier for those concepts to click in your head.
My #2 tip: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - the best book, hands down, to really explain how SharePoint works, top to bottom. Read this cover to cover, and you'll know more than at least 30% of the SharePoint people out there.
I'd say two sites are worth checking:
MS SharePoint Developer: http://mssharepointdeveloper.com
My RampUp: http://myrampup.com/
These sites contain a lot of information on SharePoint development including the labs and a Virtual PC with SharePoint and Visual Studio.
SharePoint is Microsoft's fastest growing product. It's complex to administer and develop for, and SharePoint expertise gets a pretty nice premium (at least, in the three markets I'm familiar with: Dallas, Seattle, and central Midwest). I get a few calls a week from recruiters who want my SharePoint knowledge.
If you want to be a SharePoint developer, you will need to be familiar with .NET and either C# or VB.NET, so it looks like you're covered there.
The first thing you should do is spend some quality time reading the SharePoint questions here to see what kinds of issues SharePoint developers face. There are some excellent SharePoint folks on SO.
There is still plenty of SharePoint work around. However, most companies hiring SharePoint developers are looking for someone who is already an expert and will be able to help the existing .NET team learn SharePoint.
There is enough demand that you don't need a huge amount of experience to be considered an expert. However, you'll need at least some time on a real SharePoint project before you can get a job as a specialist. Your best option is probably to be working as a .NET developer for a company starting to use SharePoint or a consultancy that has both .NET and SharePoint projects.
You can go to job sites such as http://www.indeed.com/ to gauge the demand for different products/technologies in your area.
A few places I have worked customized SharePoint pretty extensively.
Personally I see quite a bit of SharePoint use locally. I have gotten a few head hunting calls about SharePoint jobs recently, so there does seem to be demand here.
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I'm starting a new job involving Sharepoint design/development. While the job will involve training courses on Sharepoint and other technologies I haven't used, I am interested to get a headstart and learn a little more about Sharepoint.
Are there any good articles explaining Sharepoint development and what I need to know (being a beginner in the technology)? I am strong with C# and ASP.NET as I use it everyday (job or no job), it's just the Sharepoint specific stuff I wonder. I am checking out MSDN. I did check out some other threads on this, but I am not really looking for a book.
A better question would be what blogs are there which focus on code snippets and best practises?
Thanks
There are lots of SharePoint virtual labs. They are good b/c they let you get your hands on the technology without too much of the setup hassle. :)
http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/html/Default.html
This site has the information I started with when learning SharePoint: webcasts from TechEd by Andrew Connell and Rob Bogue and the hands-on-labs that go along with them.
There are very many SharePoint MVPs that have blogs that are easy to find and many of them hang around on twitter so it's easy to get help.
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/11/25/Free-MSDN-Webcasts-amp-HOLs-for-MOSS-2007-WCM-Development.aspx has info on some newer webcasts
http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/ and http://www.methings.com/podcast/70342/MOSS-Gone-Wild.php
are 2 excellent SharePoint Podcasts.
A few months ago I was looking for decent SharePoint articles just to get an introduction to the technology. I found an entire section on CodeProject dedicated to it. Check it out if you haven't already, I found a number of good articles there.
Also, check out the SharePoint dev wiki
In addition to all the links provided by others:
Microsoft has a Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 on Technet
The official SharePoint Team Blog has some good info.
Sharepoint Joel has a list of Top 100 SharePoint blogs, though a year old provides a good starting point of blogs to look at.
Several MSDN articles such as:
Disposal Best Practices
Common Coding Issues using the SharePoint Object Model
Edit: Also just noticed that the Patterns & Practices team has a SharePoint Guidance project on codeplex.
Sharepoint was a disaster for me (as I've said before), but I'd be willing to give it another try once .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 are released.
I would definitely download the VS 2010 beta and give the new Sharepoint integration a spin. I hear that it is a big improvement over what we have now.
As for documentation, msdn was the best learning resource I could find. It was more concise than what you will get with most books, although books usually provide a storyline and cohesive progression of learning.
Hope that helps, Good luck.
Codeplex is good for examples of developement. Given the rate of change with "best practices" I have seen some books that have become out of date quite rapidly.
I personally have gained a lot of valuable knowledge from looking at questions on forums like this one, trying to replicate the issue on a developement VM. I would recommend having a VM for "play" as hands on will run you up against many of the strengths and weaknesses with different approaches.
If you can get a backup of an existing content database you are using, having lots of documents and document libraries is good for hitting real data and trying out different search configurations etc.
One additional site you shouldn't forget is myrampup.com. It's a community-based training site which will help you get the knowledge you need to develop solutions on the SharePoint platform.
Before learning SharePoint development, learn what SharePoint can do. Use it and become familiar with its features. Many people's first thought is to develop new features when much of what they want to do can be done with existing SharePoint features. It's a huge, complex product.
I've found some very good videos for learning Sharepoint at Point8020
Very good reference for SharePoint Object Model:
http://www.etechplanet.com/post/2009/08/28/Overview-of-SharePoint-Object-Model.aspx
A good starting resource is the Microsoft RampUp Site it's a free resource that has 2 tracks for SharePoint for developers. Each track consists of articles, slide casts and virtual labs to help you gain an understanding of what goes into developing for SharePoint. They are not all inclusive but it should give you a good starting point.
There is also a user centric overview on the Microsoft Office Site for SharePoint 2007 that can help get you an understanding of some of the features in SharePoint.
I don't know if any of the resources have been update yet for SharePoint 2010, but hopefully those will follow soon.
Also check Microsoft Learning with SharePoint 2010 around the corner you might find free courses. Microsoft usually releases free online courseware for new products around the time of release.
For uo to date announcements check out the SharePoint Team blog, usually there's lots of good information around there.
Good Luck.