1.7. Summary

This chapter was a brief introduction to the world of Web Parts in SharePoint, and you should now have the basic knowledge to begin building your own Web Parts. SharePoint is a platform that can be used to develop and deploy your custom applications. We walked through the basics of Web Parts in SharePoint 2010, and we introduced the building blocks of pages. Here’s a summary of what you’ve learned so far:

• Web Parts are one of the building blocks in SharePoint.

• Web Parts can act alone or together with other Web Parts.

• The Web Part infrastructure is defined in ASP.NET 2.

• Web Parts are managed through a Web Part Manager object.

• Web Parts exist inside or outside of Web Part zones.

• Pages in SharePoint host the Web Part zones.