Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Get Started as a SharePoint Developer

At http://tinyurl.com/wanna-sharepoint I found some good references on what to do to start becoming a master SharePoint developer that inspire this post:

(1) Do custom development for SharePoint on a Windows Server machine that has SharePoint and Visual Studio installed. You will regret trying it any other way this year. Download Virtual PC at http://tinyurl.com/virtual2007 and the VHD at http://tinyurl.com/share2007vhd.

(2) Free Online Training – There’s lots of online training out there. Some of it free, some of it quite costly. One of the newer offerings is a Ramp Up course from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd221355.aspx

(3) Read BLOGs and do Twitter searches on SharePoint. See http://alex-share.blogspot.com, http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog, http://www.sharepointcowboy.com, http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx, and http://search.twitter.com/search?q=SharePoint

(4) Find good sample code. See http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?ProjectSearchText=Sharepoint or http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?projectSearchText=SharePoint for plenty of SharePoint code samples.

(5) Stay current on SharePoint by going to http://alex-share.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default to subscribe to this BLOG. If you don't have a RSS Reader then I suggest using http://reader.google.com as your reader.

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