SharePoint is a web product from Microsoft which is used in the Companies to manage their data which is in the form of documents, emails, contacts, etc. It is a repository for all users in the Enterprise to retrieve required information they need. The below example will clear what is the main purpose of SharePoint.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a rich server application for the enterprise that facilitates collaboration, provides full content management features, implements business processes, and provides access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. It provides an integrated platform to plan, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across and beyond the enterprise.
This With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has shifted the developer experience toward a new paradigm—the paradigm of high-level development. This allows developers to extend Microsoft’s software and adapt the parts to behave exactly as you would have designed them. However, things are not that clear on a closer look. SharePoint is multifaceted—it’s an application, a platform, a server, a framework, and a database.
Prerequisites
As a basic platform, we use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate running on 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. When a client is involved, and when we run SharePoint in a client environment for development purposes, we use 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate. (64-bit Windows is a requirement; you cannot even run the installer on 32-bit Windows anymore). A similar platform is required for getting all the samples running. Nevertheless, we encourage you to look to the future and work with the most current tools and platforms you can obtain. If you travel a lot and need to take your development environment with you, we suggest using a laptop with at least 4GB memory (8GB will be best if you can afford it) and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 with Hyper-V installed. You can run several different development environments in virtual machines on such a computer. If you need external hard disk space, it’s strongly recommended to use eSATA instead of USB. Connect to this machine using your regular laptop via remote desktop.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a rich server application for the enterprise that facilitates collaboration, provides full content management features, implements business processes, and provides access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. It provides an integrated platform to plan, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across and beyond the enterprise.
This With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has shifted the developer experience toward a new paradigm—the paradigm of high-level development. This allows developers to extend Microsoft’s software and adapt the parts to behave exactly as you would have designed them. However, things are not that clear on a closer look. SharePoint is multifaceted—it’s an application, a platform, a server, a framework, and a database.
Prerequisites
As a basic platform, we use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate running on 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. When a client is involved, and when we run SharePoint in a client environment for development purposes, we use 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate. (64-bit Windows is a requirement; you cannot even run the installer on 32-bit Windows anymore). A similar platform is required for getting all the samples running. Nevertheless, we encourage you to look to the future and work with the most current tools and platforms you can obtain. If you travel a lot and need to take your development environment with you, we suggest using a laptop with at least 4GB memory (8GB will be best if you can afford it) and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 with Hyper-V installed. You can run several different development environments in virtual machines on such a computer. If you need external hard disk space, it’s strongly recommended to use eSATA instead of USB. Connect to this machine using your regular laptop via remote desktop.
Versions of SharePoint:
2010 – SharePoint 2010
2007 – Windows SharePoint services 3.0 + MOSS 2007
2003 – Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
2001 – SharePoint Team Services
