Lab 2 - SharePoint Foundation Development

Lab Time: 30 Minutes
Lab Overview: In this lab you will begin to write and test c# code using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 object model.

Exercise 1: SharePoint 2010 Object Model Programming

Pre-Requisites: SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio.

Solution Framework 

• Launch Visual Studio from windows start menu. Start > All Programs > Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 >Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
• Create a new console application based on .NET Framework 3.5

• Once the new project has been created check the follwoing

• Target Framework

• Platform Target

• Add a reference to the assembly Microsoft.SharePoint.dll

• Add a reference to the assembly System.Web.

Activating Developer Dashboard 

• Modify Program.cs to look like this.
• Make sure to structure your code inside a using construct so that your code makes an implicit call to the Dispose() method to prevent memory leakage.

• Run the program (CTRL + F5)
• Open the site in Internet Explorer. You should see the SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard at the bottom of the page.

Note: You can use the site created in Lab 1.

Note: If your content variable turns out to be null, you have to check your project properties. Good chance you haven't selected the x64 platform.

De-Activating Developer Dashboard 

• Modify the program.cs look like this

• Run the program (CTRL + F5)
• Open the site in Internet Explorer. You should see the SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard is gone now. 

Creating Lists Programatically - Announcements

• Modify the program.cs look like this.

• Run the Program (CTRL + F5)
• Click on Lists or view all site content on the left hand side navigation.
• You should see the Announcements list.

In the next post, I will write about introduction to development tools in Visual Studio 2010.