Introduce yourself to SharePoint 2013 Development in this handy guide

This FREE eBook contains excerpts from Chapter 1 Introduction to SharePoint 2013 from the book ‘Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development‘.

In the chapter you will get a high level introduction to SharePoint 2013 development including:

• Understand what SharePoint is
• Learn about the high-level feature areas and functionality of SharePoint 2013
• Understand the relevance of these feature areas and the functionality to the developer

Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development is a complete revision to a popular SharePoint developer’s resource.

Fully updated for SharePoint 2013, this book is an ideal starting place for SharePoint development. Covering all the major topics that a new developer needs to know in order to get started, this resource contains 100 percent new content and addresses the major overhaul to the SharePoint 2013 platform. The team of authors, led by Microsoft’s Steve Fox, presents you with a detailed overview that helps you establish a starting point for development. They then walk you through ways to advance your knowledge so that you leverage the new SharePoint 2013 features to build custom solutions.

* Addresses developing managed or unmanaged applications
* Provides an overview of Windows Azure for SharePoint
* Looks at common developer tasks in SharePoint 2013
* Gets you started with building, packaging, and deploying SharePoint 2013 applications
* Highlights essential points of security in SharePoint 2013

Touching on everything from developing applications using Office services to development workflow applications, Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development covers everything you need to know to start confidently working with the platform today.

Authors: 

Steve Fox is a director in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) at Microsoft. He presents and keynotes at conferences globally and publishes regularly in MSDN Magazine.

Chris Johnson is a general manager at Provoke Solutions Seattle. Previously, he worked for Microsoft for nearly 10 years.

Donovan Follette is a senior technical evangelist with Microsoft. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that guides you through all the techniques involved.