Beginning SharePoint Development

In this course, you’ll get an introduction to SharePoint development and explore various development scenarios. You’ll learn how to set up your lab environment, how to build SharePoint solutions, how to structure and develop data models in SharePoint, how to make your content behave, and how to work with visual elements such as web parts and custom actions. After taking this course, you will have a good understanding of basic SharePoint development and an excellent foundation for further studies. The course targets core SharePoint functionality that is common to both SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Examples and videos use SharePoint 2007, but are equally applicable to SharePoint 2010.

Developing SharePoint Content Types

Welcome to Developing SharePoint Content Types! Throughout this course, you’ll learn about all the inner workings of SharePoint content types, and how to master the four major features of content types: Taxonomy, Behavior, Layout, and Custom XML Documents. You will gain practical insights into how content types are used, both in core SharePoint functionality, in MOSS/SharePoint Server, and in real-life applications. And you will also build a complete SharePoint solution that utilizes all of these aspects. After completing this course, you will know how to utilize content types as part of your SharePoint solutions, and will have learned of new ways you can utilize SharePoint content types.

Enhancing the SharePoint User Experience with jQuery

After taking this course, you will be able to improve the user experience in your SharePoint solutions, improving data quality and user adoption rates. You will learn how to get jQuery set up for use with SharePoint and how to work with the client-side Document Object Model (DOM). Specific examples using the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (also called SPServices) will be included and may be of the most interest to business users.

Introduction to the SharePoint Web Services

SharePoint’s Web Services expose a wide range of methods you can use to interact with various containers, collections, and objects. This course introduces you to the Web Services that are available in WSS, MOSS, and their SharePoint 2010 counterparts. The Web Services in newer versions of SharePoint are additive, so understanding the prior version’s capabilities is always useful.

Although you can call Web Services from almost any programming language, this course focuses on using jQuery to interact with the Web Services client side to build useful functionality into your SharePoint forms and pages.

It is strongly recommended that you take Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery prior to this course.

SharePoint Data View Web Part Basics

In this course, you will learn about one of the most powerful Web Parts in SharePoint, the Data View Web Part (DVWP). You can use the DVWP to create customized content displays as well as custom forms. The course covers the main components of the DVWP: XSL basics, using scripting with DVWPs, and applying styling to DVWP output. While most of the course examples are for the DVWP in SharePoint 2007 with SharePoint Designer 2007, the techniques apply directly to DVWPs in SharePoint 2010 as well as the XLV Web Part.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

One of the most powerful features of SharePoint Designer is the ability for non-programmers to easily create business-tailored workflows to improve their business process management. In this course, you will learn both about the technical aspects of building SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows, but also on the non-technical challenges faced by SharePoint workflow developers.