SharePoint 2010 book - Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 written by 3 MVPs

September 2010

This is my most awaited SharePoint 2010 book in 2010 since this one is written by 3 well known MVPs: Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell, both authors, instructors and co-founder of Critical Path Training, and Scot Hillier, an independent consultant. The release is scheduled December, 15th 2010 and includes about 700 pages.

The book is dedicated to SharePoint 2010 development as you can see from the following description (This isn’t the final table of contents as you can see later...):

  • Use Visual Studio® 2010 SharePoint® Tools
  • Create Sandboxed Solutions
  • Handle Pages and Navigation
  • Develop Web Parts
  • Create Fields, Site Columns and Content Types
  • Create Lists and Event Handlers
  • Access Data in Lists
  • Perform Client-side Programming
  • Develop Workflows
  • Implement SharePoint® Security
  • Work with Service Applications
  • Perform Business Intelligence (BI)

[Source: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010]

And here is the cool thing: The first 4 chapters have been published on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) for free:

This (not yet published) book comes right to the point and talks about the history of SharePoint so here you should be familiar with things like lists, items, content types or Web Parts. If not then it’s better to take a step back and try to understand the basic concepts and the underlying business requirements of SharePoint in general. Later on you get an overview of a SharePoint 2010 farm, the new Service Applications, Central Administration, the concepts about customizing and PowerShell.

As the title of the chapter indicates this chapter is a kind of roadmap to get an overview which leads to specific details of SharePoint 2010 development in the following chapters. One thing I like from the beginning is a fictitious company which accompanies the content for a better understanding.

While writing this article the yet published content leads an ASP.NET or SharePoint 2007 developer to SharePoint 2010. It has a lot of images, code and xml. And as you may have seen during the launch of SharePoint 2010 in a few tutorial videos with Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell, the content itself is great. I learned a lot from these videos and because of that I’m looking forward for the release.

So what is the difference between this book and some other SharePoint 2010 book about development? I don’t know since this is on my to do list. As soon as I know I will write another article.

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