Who this book is for

This book is for Solution Architects, intermediate and senior .NET Developers, and intermediate SharePoint developers. You won't need prior experience building solutions for SharePoint but it would be a great asset.
What to expect from this book

This book goes beyond just technicalities and how-to you can typically find online; it'll start with the perspective where collaboration solutions are now and how they will evolve. With that perspective in mind, you will learn what out-of-the-box capabilities of SharePoint are out there and how to create customizations to fill gaps.
You will learn about: Site templates used for building collaboration solutions, including: Publishing Portal, Team Site, Community Site, Project Site, Enterprise WIKI, Enterprise Search Center, Personal Site Applying branding to the collaboration components, including: working with master pages, page layouts, creating custom look, applying your custom branding to various site template types, packaging your branding solution Customizing core features of your collaboration solution, including: extending site templates, provisioning content types, provisioning web parts, views and other components, handling list events, debugging your customizations, customizing navigation, working with user profiles, getting started with building SharePoint apps Automating the deployment and configuration of your SharePoint solution

Master SharePoint 2010 branding and interface development with deep and to-the-point How To's. Get task-specific guidance and detailed code samples to help you get started right away. This book is meant for web developers and user interface developers and will bridge anything else you will need to successfully apply your existing branding skills to the SharePoint 2010. Here are top things you will learn with this book: 1.Setting up your development virtual machine and overview of SharePoint 2010 branding; What's Where and Why? 2.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Sites. At the end of this chapter, we'll actually transfer branding of a traditionally cut site (HTML, CSS etc) to SharePoint 2010 3.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites. Here you will learn all about branding large enterprise sites 4.Customizing SharePoint 2010 Specialized Sites. All about customizing user profile sites, blog site, and other specialized sites 5.Extending Search Look and Feel. Learn about particulars of branding SharePoint 2010 Search and its components 6.Integrating Third-Party UI Components into SharePoint. Here, we look at integrating controls from Telerik and your own custom controls 7.Branding SharePoint Publishing and Custom Pages 8.Changing the Look of SharePoint Forms. Forms are heavily used in SharePoint 2010 and rarely explained how to brand, here we'll learn all about branding list and item forms 9.Client-Side Interaction with External and Local Web Services. Particulars of integrating external services with SharePoint 2010 10. Creating SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Components and Managing Existing Ribbon Elements. Get all the samples and tips on how to extend SharePoint 2010 ribbon Download book source code here: www.sharemuch.com/download Code examples in this book as well as downloadable source code have been thoroughly tested. With the source code provided, you will be able to jump right into the example and build on the top of it to apply your specific scenario.

Master SharePoint 2010 solution development with deep and to-the-point How To's. Get task-specific guidance and detailed code samples to help you get started right away. With this book - you will get a collection of many of the most valuable, and proven approaches to build your solutions fast and with sound architecture, translating your solution into more competitive and reliable. Here are top things you discover with this book: 1.Setting up your Visual Studio solution and automated solution deployment 2.Working with custom lists and roll-ups, managing list security, and custom events 3.Customizing list item forms and form fields 4.Bringing in external data into SharePoint 5.Process and task automation and scheduling with timer jobs 6.Working with SharePoint 2010 metadata, tags, and other social computing features 7.Extending SharePoint 2010 ribbon with custom actions and events 8.Deep dive into SharePoint pages, templates, and navigation 9.Accelerating SharePoint solution development in your team with custom Visual Studio extensions. Read the first chapter or download the source code of the book here: www.sharemuch.com/download The best of all, you will get a real code with all of the steps you need to do to run it. Most code examples in this book come with references to downloadable solution files that have been compiled and tested. With the source code provided, you will be able to jump right into the example and build on the top of it to test your specific scenario.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook is a concise and above all advanced cookbook, with practical expert recipes for SharePoint and PowerShell automation. If you are a SharePoint administrator or IT Pro who wants to extend your knowledge of PowerShell automation, this book is a must have. You should have a solid grasp of working with SharePoint and PowerShell respectively.