This chapter explained advanced techniques that you can use when designing your Share-Point sites and solutions. The techniques will assist your organization in developing Share-Point solutions in a best-practices manner that makes them more stable, more robust, and more easily governed.

The process of developing SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio 2010 has been greatly improved when compared to previous versions. This includes enhanced debugging, IntelliSense, statement completion, new built-in tools, and new project templates. Share-Point projects can also be written in Visual Basic or Visual C#.

This chapter explained also the basics of how Web Parts work and what tools you need to create Web Parts of your own as well as some of the best practices. In addition, it explained the basic programming techniques you need to successfully create and deploy custom Web Parts.