Sharepoint learning resources

This post contains links to download evaluation software, guides, demo virtual machines and lots more, for both Developers and IT Professionals.SharePoint 2010 - Top 10 Resources to get you started

For the most up-to-date information about SharePoint Learning Resources, visit the Microsoft Learning Training Portal for certification exams, instructor-led training, e-learning, and books.

Five videos on SharePoint 2010 development made easy, creating a SharePoint 2010 solution, deploying a solution, Silverlight applications and the client object model, LINQ to SharePoint, and more.

Explore the SharePoint 2010 UI, use the Central Administration Console, and learn more about the shared application architecture in these short videos.

Learn about the powerful performance improvement in SharePoint 2010, large list resource throttling, unattached content database recovery options, and how to use the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer.

Use these five tips for guidance in solving problems related to using and configuring claims.

I've always used some kind of ORM to fetch data,  LinqToSQL or NHibernate so i guess im spoiled - but now i have a prospective job where they primarily use stored procs.  Not my first choice as i'm not all too comfortable with DBs in general - but i like to brush up on stored procs - almost a Stored Procs for Dummies kind of thingWhats a good resource you guys use for this? I just wanna show that i some initiative and more or less hit the ground running when it comes to stored procs - assuming im selected.Thanks!

I have set up a group calendar in SharePoint and added 10 items to the associated Resources list.  By default resource bookings will not appear on the group calendar unless you manually select the resources through the interface.  I would like the calendar's default view to display all bookings (or all available resources) by default.  Anyone have recommendations on the best way to do this?

Eric

Hi

I am posting thisqestion inSharePoint2010 because I could not found forums for ShareIPoint2007.

I want to install SharePoint learningkit on sharepoint2007 with SharePoint centralAdministrator3 .

For configuring SLK , I opened SharePoint CentralAdministration. Bt nder Application MAnagement ,I cannot find the link for SharePoint learning kit Configration.

Kindly help me in resolving this problem.............

Learn five tips that are related to claims-based authentication in SharePoint 2010, including information about packaging, retrieving REST data, adding policy, managing trusted root authorities, and resolving logon page issues.

When you create a site in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services by using the default Team Site template, the home page includes two default graphics. A Windows SharePoint Services graphic appears in the body of the page, and a picture of a house in a circle appears near the site title. You can change these graphics to customize your site. Changing the smaller graphic requires a Windows SharePoint Services compatible Web page editor

When you create a built-in or custom list in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Windows SharePoint Services creates a Web Part, a basic building block of a SharePoint site, to display that list. These Web Parts are called List View Web Parts. Windows SharePoint Services stores List View Web Parts in the site collection Web Part gallery. (The site collection Web Part gallery is the most central gallery of Web Parts for a work group. By default, the gallery name is the name of the site, such as "Our Team Site Web Part Gallery." )

What is a SharePoint site for?
A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. A SharePoint site is a tool for collaboration, just like a telephone is a tool for communication, or a meeting is a tool for decision making. A SharePoint site helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. For example, a SharePoint site can help you:

Coordinate projects, calendars, and schedules.
Discuss ideas and review documents or proposals.
Share information and keep in touch with other people.

Becoming familiar with Web Part customization techniques gives you a range of page-customization choices. For example, you can customize your site's home page so that it displays the specific information that your team needs. You can rearrange the list items on the home page, add lists, and even change the images on the home page. As you become more familiar with Web Part Page customization techniques, you can build interactive Web Part Pages that makes the data in lists more dynamic and useful, and you can add new Web Parts that provide access to external data and Web services.

Document libraries are collections of files that you can share with team members on a Web based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. For example, you can create a library of common documents for a project, and team members can use their Web browsers to find the files, read them, and make comments. Users with Microsoft Office 2003 can check out and edit the files as if they resided on a local or network drive.

By default, your team Web site comes with a built-in document library named Shared Documents, which is listed on the Quick Launch bar as well as on the Documents and Lists page.

I described how a new open source tool called sporm significantly simplifies unit testing SharePoint. Making SharePoint unit testable is my absolute favorite feature of sporm because SharePoint is notoriously hard to unit test. But sporm provides other benefits as well and its ability to pull us out of the depths of verbose loosely typed XML hell and into LINQ excellence is next on my list of favorite features. So in this post I'll describe the pre-sporm technique of querying with CAML, how to query data using sporm, and finally how sporm supports SharePoint's unique architecture of allowing multiple content types per list and what that means to you.

As I described in SharePoint: The Wild West of Software Development there is a serious problem when you develop for SharePoint: ensuring quality through unit testing is really, really hard. And that's where a new open source tool just released today called sporm (SharePoint Object Relational Mapper) comes in. While sporm provides many benefits besides simplified unit testing I wanted to focus on this topic first, because sporm's approach, which models the entity framework in the way it supports POCO's, is a unique feature not available with other SharePoint tools like LINQ to SharePoint.