You need to learn CAML, the language used to describe SharePoint artifacts, to query SharePoint data, and render visual appearance of objects such as lists and views. You need to learn web part development if you want to create resuable visual components for your solution. You need to understand the event model so you can capture important events and react accordingly. You may need custom actions to modify the user interface or delegate controls to add plugin functionality to pages.

In Beginning SharePoint Development, you’ll learn all of these skills and many more. After reading and watching the videos you will be able to start creating solutions that utilize the power of SharePoint.

You can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

In Beginning SharePoint Development, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Visual Studio and freely available extensions such as WSPBuilder to create compelling and effective SharePoint solutions. I’ll show you how to build individual features, how to create web parts, how to create SharePoint lists and list definitions, as well as how you can wrap all of these artefacts into SharePoint WSP solution packages.

Everything you learn is applicable both to Visual Studio 2005 and to Visual Studio 2008, and you can use both the free Express editions or the other editions of Visual Studio. Whether you are an experienced .NET developer or a complete newbie, you’ll be up and running as a SharePoint developer by the end of the issue.

You can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

In Beginning SharePoint Development, I’ll show you how to build these solution files from scratch. This is important because your automatic tools may not fulfill your requirements in some cases.

I’ll show you how to build the DDF file used in WSP file creation, how to use makecab.exe to create the WSP file, how to build the solution manifest file (manifest.xml), and of course, how to install and deploy your solution to your SharePoint farm.

Finally, I’ll show you how you can use WSPBuilder to automate these tasks so that your every day SharePoint solution development is as simple as a few clicks of the mouse.

You can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

In Beginning SharePoint Journal, I’ll introduce you to several very important tools for the SharePoint developer, including Visual Studio, SharePoint Manager 2007, and the all-time favorite tool of every SharePoint developer, WSPBuilder.

I will also show you tips and tricks to speed up your development time so you can focus more on delivering great content and less on trivial and meaningless tasks. Here is a sample of two quick tips from the USP Journal YouTube channel:

You can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

If you have already used SharePoint, you have also used web parts. For example, the announcement list on the front page of a Team Site is a web part, as is the SharePoint logo on the right side of the front page.

In Chapter 5 of Beginning SharePoint Development, I’ll walk you through creating a web part, using WSPBuilder, and explain the basics of how web part development works. One of the videos included in the issue shows you the creation process as well.

You can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

In the first chapter of Beginning SharePoint Development, you will learn how to build your development environment. This will help you get quickly into the actual SharePoint developer training tutorials and exercises provided in later chapters.

You can download the first chapter free of charge, and view most of the SharePoint lab setup videos from the USP Journal YouTube channel.

Here is one sample video, covering setting up IIS on your development machine:

In addition, you can read the entire Beginning SharePoint Development issue, including more than three hours of video tutorials and demonstrations for just $14.95.

You can also look at sample content from the issue on the Understanding SharePoint Journal YouTube channel where you will find most of the videos for Chapter 1.

You will also find several bonus videos such as this overview of WSPBuilder, one of the SharePoint Development tools you will learn to use in this issue: