Out of the Box SharePoint 2010 Development with JQuery, Access Services, and SharePoint Designer

Total Running Time: 188 min

Many SharePoint administrators and developers dive head first into a challenge without knowing all of their options. Many of us listen to the requirements then immediately crack open Visual Studio and start off on our development journey. Unfortunately, anyone who has ever developed for SharePoint using Visual Studio knows that there is no such thing as “quick and easy.” For example, the ambitious developer will need a development environment and possibly even a test and staging environment and there are often complications that arise from the deployment of the code.

So how does a “veteran” developer approach these challenges? It’s important to understand that you can use a variety of tools for development in SharePoint 2010. For example, SharePoint Designer 2010 offers a wide range of tools that can meet basic to intermediate requirements. JQuery provides additional selectors and custom formatting that can override events and that can be dropped directly into SharePoint webparts—such as the Content Editor Web Part. You also can use a lesser known service application in SharePoint (Access Services) to build powerful and flexible business applications.

While the sessions for this eLearning event will not necessarily steer you away from Visual Studio, you’ll learn about options that can give you “quick wins” without having to write complex back-end code. Furthermore, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of each approach and discuss the overall effort for each method. Veteran developer Ulysses Ludwig will present a series of sessions that help the SharePoint 2010 developer—whether novice, intermediate, or advanced—grasp the capabilities of these additional, and often misunderstood, tools. SharePoint 2010 Administrators can also benefit greatly from a better understanding of these tools to help manage and guide the developers working for them, and understand the options for enhancing SharePoint 2010 as a business platform.

Session 1: SharePoint Designer and ASPX Pages

Session 2: JQuery and SharePoint

Session 3: Access Services