Hour 10. Managing Data in SharePoint 2010
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Programming SharePoint lists and libraries
• Creating custom list definitions
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.
Data is central to software applications. Every software application ranging from simple text file editors such as Notepad to complex applications such as a big Customer Resource Management system or Enterprise Resource Planning system works on data. Similarly data is central to every SharePoint application. In fact, as you saw in Hour 1, “Introducing SharePoint 2010,” from simply acting as a repository for data to performing intelligent operations on data SharePoint can just about do everything in managing data. In this and the next few hours you learn about the features of SharePoint that make it a great application to store and manage all the data of an organization.