Rob Wilson from Keller Schroeder will give us an introduction to development for the SharePoint platform.

This session will introduce developers to the SharePoint 2010 development environment. Rob will provide guidance on when to develop on a platform and introduce you to the SharePoint 2010 platform. Topics covered include an overview of event handlers, workflows and the SharePoint Object Model.

Notice! - this meeting will be held at the Oaklyn Branch, 3001 Oaklyn Drive, Evansville, IN 47711.

Keller Schroeder will be providing food.

Rob Wilson is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, SharePoint MCTS and leader at the Evansville SharePoint User Group.  He is a senior consultant (16+ years) and Business Unit Director of Microsoft Applications at Keller Schroeder (www.kellerschroeder.com) – a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner serving Southwest Indiana and Western Kentucky.  Rob began working with SharePoint in 2005 and has focused on the platform since.  Rob also shares his enthusiasm for Microsoft technologies with his students and peers at Vincennes University where he is adjunct faculty and serves on the Tech Advisory Board.

We had about 33 people attend this meeting which is another good turnout.

And we had a functioning projector and the light low enough to be able to see the image on the screen!  If you were with us last month, you know how great that was.

Rob did a great job giving an overview of benefits of developing an application on a platform such as SharePoint.  He also showed a couple of simple apps to give us a taste for development.

If you are interested in digging in to it, you definitely want to spend some time learning the lingo of standard SharePoint stuff like lists, libraries, custom lists, views, packages, features and the built-in out-of-the-box functionality.  Once you have an idea of the playing field, then check out the tutorials and videos in the resource section of Rob's notes to see how to extend SP via custom development.

To see his presentation, check here.

Thanks to everyone that came out for the meeting.

We're still working on the next meeting in September.