Hi
Guys i am having good experience in c#. But i want to plunge into share point. Is it easy? i dont want to write too much code and too much learning in my next role.
Can you please give your ideas?
I want to learn sharepoint 2007 and then learn share point 2010. Is it involving a lot of code work?
Thanks Robert
SharePoint builds on experience that you already have with ASP.NET and C#. The hardest part of learning SharePoint in my experience was learning the SharePoint API and knowing which is the best approach to accomplish a task and how to package up your features for deployment.
Microsoft did a great job on SharePoint 2010 and makes developing SharePoint apps a lot easier with VS 2010. In VS 2010 you basically have F5 compile and deployment like you would in a traditional ASP.NET application.
MOSS 2007 on the other hand requires some VS extensions to package and deploy your SharePoint features. Here is a link to VS 2008 extensions for WSS 3 / MOSS 2007
Hey Robert. I'm a Sharepoint Developer and must say, I find it very interesting.
Most of the time Sharepiont Dev involves writing web parts or Solutions and sometimes Sharepoint Workflow (hope you dont have to do custom workflow as its a bit of a nightmare). Luckily , if you know ASP.NET , you're halfway there as Sharepoint Web parts are built using ASP.net. The most important thing though is to understand the Sharepoint Product. There are some good books/courses out there which will guide you in getting to know the product.
The Sharepoint object model (apart from the wf object model) is pretty good and provides just about everything you need.
I use alot of Ajax,Jquery in my web part, so also read up on that. Anyways, there's some good articles and references on this MSDN Blog. Hope my answer helps.
Good luck.
Oh, and by the way. DONT use VseWSS (Visual Studio Extensions for Sharepoint). It's cr*p (sorry MS). Rather use WSP Builder