Hour 5. Working with Web Parts and Web Pages
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Overview of SharePoint controls
• Developing delegate controls
• SharePoint 2010 safeguard against XSS
• Web part pages and wiki pages
Due to the complexity of the topics discussed, some figures in this book are very detailed and are intended only to provide a high-level view of concepts. Those figures are representational and not intended to be read in detail.
SharePoint development is often thought of as synonymous with web part development. This is because web parts are the most commonly developed SharePoint control. However you will develop many other types of controls as a SharePoint developer. This hour explores various types of controls that you can develop to extend SharePoint. First user controls and custom controls are discussed, followed by a quick look at delegate controls. And finally the discussion focuses on web parts, editor parts, visual web parts, and web pages.