This 2-day course explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint. It is a compressed lecture & demo only format of our popular Great SharePoint Adventure 2010 hands-on, classroom oriented class. This roadshow format is great for those people who are limited in the time they can spend out of the office or are working within a limited budget.

The first day of the roadshow focuses on Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (SPF2010, formerly known as Windows SharePoint Services or WSS 3.0) where you will learn how to develop fundamental SPF2010 building blocks such as Features, application pages, site pages, master pages, Web Part pages as well as how to customize the ribbon and develop a custom user experience. Microsoft made significant improvements in the ways developers access data in SharePoint both on and off the server. In this course developers will learn how to access data in SharePoint using LINQ for SharePoint when on the server. When connecting to SharePoint from off the server developers will also learn how and when to use the WCF Data Services (aka: OData / REST) and the Client Object Model (.NET, Silverlight and ECMAScript).

The second day of the class moves on to automating business process with workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 as well as developing with Enterprise Content Management, managed metadata and leverage the SharePoint Search platform to create custom search results pages and program against the search API. In addition, developers will also learn how to read, write and surface data in many ways from external systems using the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint Server 2007).

Throughout the course students will not only learn how to create robust SharePoint projects and solutions using the new SharePoint Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010, but they will also learn how to customize and extend these tools. In addition developers will learn about the new Sandbox Solution paradigm and best practices around when and how to create robust solutions in this new way of thinking.

Attendees should have professional development experience with Visual Studio, the .NET Framework and ASP.NET as well as familiarity with Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. It is also recommended (but not required) that attendees have a background with the previous version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 / Office SharePoint Server 2007 and have experience working directly with XML files in Visual Studio 2008.