This book provides the basic introduction about Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 for the beginners, who are new to the SharePoint development. The book assumes no pre-requisite for the developers to start the SharePoint Foundation 2010 development with the help of materials covered in this book. We discuss all the basic concepts about SharePoint Foundation 2010 which lays the strong foundation and the topics needed to start the SharePoint Foundation 2010 development.

This book shows how SharePoint seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft technologies to provide competitive edge for the business. We explore best options available for integrating SharePoint with the other Microsoft products which help developers to provide wide range of solutions for the business critical problems. All the concepts described in this book are amply supported with the code examples to help the developers to learn new concepts easily.

The main stress of the book has been on the coding so that the developers has the confidence to take up the enterprise solutions development based on SharePoint technology. Book also describes the best options for migrating from older version of SharePoint to newer version and backup and management of the SharePoint applications. Tips for the important concepts have been provided throughout the book to make the developers life simple. This book is packed with all the ingredients to act as the launch pad for the beginners to the world of Microsoft SharePoint development.

Vivek Thangaswamy is highly committed towards the technology support and service to the global community and work place. Looking at this community support activity Microsoft awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three consecutive years – 2007 for ASP.NET, 2008 and 2009 for SharePoint. Also he was awarded Professional Excellence and Innovation Award – 2011 from www.npa.org. In dotnetspider.com Vivek has been awarded with Bronze, Silver and Gold medals for his contribution to community. In www.experts-exchange.com Vivek has been awarded Master status in XML, ASP.NET and SharePoint.

Apart from these recognitions Vivek has contributed more in MSDN forums, and www.codeproject.com. In www.redpipit.com Vivek is administrator for all technology discussion activity. Vivek has been creator for two projects in www.codeplex.com an open source community for Microsoft Technologies. He is the author for a book “VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming, Packt Publishing”, Co-Authored for book System Analysis and Design, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing and Technical reviewer for three books “Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner’s Guide, Packt Publishing”, “Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Packt Publishing” and “BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 Implementation Guide, Packt Publishing”.

Shailaja Kumar is a software developer with the development experience of 8 years in the software industry, currently engaged as a Senior Consultant with one of the world’s best known companies in the Solutions and services industry. She has been associated with Microsoft SharePoint products for the past 6 years and was awarded Microsoft MVP in SharePoint Server 2007 for the years 2008 and 2009. Her expertise in SharePoint involves designing and developing applications revolving around the features offered by the different versions of SharePoint. She also holds MCTS, and MCPD Microsoft Certifications.