SharePoint Dragons

We were technical reviewers of the book “SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action” and found it to be one of the best books about SharePoint 2010: http://www.amazon.com/SharePoint-2010-Web-Parts-Action/dp/1935182773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339146301&sr=8-1

It discusses the following topics:

• Using web parts in the SharePoint UI
• Working with web parts via SPD
• Building web parts in VS.NET 2010
• Using controls, validators, CSS, web part verbs
• Web part properties, custom editor parts, type converters and runtime filters
• Web part resources and localization
• Packaging, deployment, sandboxed solutions, and upgrading
• Troubleshooting
• Performance and caching
• Ajax in web parts
• Notification messages, the status bar, and the dialog framework
• Adding controls to the ribbon
• The client object model
• Silverlight web parts
• Mobile web parts
• MVP pattern
• Service Locator pattern
• Testing web parts
• Creating connectable web parts
• Building web part pages and dashboards