What is SharePoint?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a Microsoft technology using which we can setup sites
in various networks, share information easily, manage content and do many more....
The latest version released by Microsoft is 'Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010'
(further referred as SP 2010 in this website). SP 2010 comes with many new
features like Social Networking, FAST Search etc., Without any coding
(or with minimum code) you can allow the site users to tag the pages,
save bookmarks and post comments. SPS 2010 search provides intranet search,
people search and visual search experience. It provides tools and components
to generate business reports from data spread across various locations.
The UI for SPS 2010 is enhanced by using Silverlight and it looks flashy now
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SharePoint Developer's Hub
Apart from all Out Of the Box features available in SharePoint Server, there are lot of
development areas. Everything in a SharePoint portal can be customized, we can add new buttons
and links to the SharePoint UI, create new webparts with some business logic, develop event receivers
, create custom branding solutions and the list goes on. Like in any other Microsoft Technology,
Visual Studio plays a major role in all the development needed for SharePoint Site
SharePoint Developer's Hub has articles published on various customizations and featuers
of SharePoint Server (both 2007 and 2010). The articles are written from a developer's point
of view. Code snippets and commands are included where ever needed in the articles.
A seperate section named 'Tips N Tricks' is included in the site which focus on the customization areas
of SharePoint which can be done using tools like Power Shell, stsadm, SharePoint Designer etc.,
All the articles in this section will be handy for the administrators.
-Ram