I present to you, my dear readers, this humble set of links that I’ve found helpful in my own learnings in the arcane (sometimes black) art of SharePoint development. Honestly I’ve had this list kicking around my desktop for a few months and have been meaning to blog about it. (I put them together for a course that I taught on SharePoint development and webparts awhile ago.) So hopefully you find them useful on your path to SharePoint greatness.


Let’s start with the basics on SPS architecture and webparts:




That’s fun, but is there a webpart template that you can use in Visual Studio 2003? I’m glad you asked:

That’s all great, but I hear that you can connect web parts together and do other funky things. Where can I get a more detailed discussion on creating advanced web parts?


What if my webpart needs some external resources like an image or client-side script. Where do I put it? And what’s the difference between wpresources and _wpresources anyway?


OK, all this webpart stuff is really cool, but I’m feeling lazy. How can I drag and drop my way to a webpart like I do with ASP.NET User Controls?


But I want to code a really cool webpart that might not be granted sufficient permissions by CAS. What should I do?



Now that I’ve finished developing my webpart, how can I easily install it on a production server?


I’ve got a bunch of content that I want to move from one server to another. Do I have to code up some gnarly T-SQL to make it happen? No, just learn your way around stsadm.exe and smigrate.exe:



I still need more information. Where should I start looking?


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And what, you might ask, does this have to do with System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts in ASP.NET 2.0? Not much, but that’s a post for another day…