Steve Fox - Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development

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Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development

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For my wife.

Steve Fox

For the delights of my life, Heather, Courtenay, and Morgan.

Donovan Follette

For the loves of my life, Vicki, Sam, and Kate.

Chris Johnson

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

STEVE FOX is a Director in MCS for Microsoft with more than 17 years of IT experience ranging from natural language to Office and SharePoint and most recently to Windows Azure development. His current focus is enabling the cloud for enterprise organizations.

DONOVAN FOLLETTE is a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Microsoft with more than 25 years of experience designing and building enterprise business applications. His current focus is on developers and helping them wrap their mind around the all-new cloud app model for Office and SharePoint 2013.

CHRIS JOHNSON is an avid developer and a speaker. He is the General Manager of Provoke Solutions, Inc. and a Microsoft Gold Partner in Seattle, Washington, that is one of the worlds most renowned and sought-after online experience consultancies. Provoke Solutions specializes in software solutions for SharePoint and the Microsoft technology stack ( http://www.provokesolutions.com ). In November 2011, Chris left Microsoft Corporation after nine and a half years where he most recently was a Senior Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint product group in Redmond, Washington, managing SharePoints professional developer audience technical marketing programs. Chris moved to Redmond in 2007 to work on the software engineering team on the SharePoint 2010 release after working for Microsoft New Zealand. In New Zealand he consulted for customers across the Asia Pacific region on designing and implementing Content Management Server and SharePoint deployments. Chriss background is in Microsoft software development and he enjoys all things technical. He is a speaker at numerous conferences around the world such as Tech.Ed, SharePoint Best Practices Conference, SharePoint Connections, and the worldwide SharePoint Conference. Chris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and enjoys throwing himself out of perfectly good airplanes from time to time. Contact Chris on his blog at www.looselytyped.net .

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

ANDREW CONNELL is a developer, author, instructor, and co-founder of Critical Path Training, a SharePoint educationfocused company. He has a background in content management solutions and Web development that spans back to his time as a student at the University of Florida in the late 1990s managing class sites. He has consistently focused on the challenges facing business today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely constantly on Web developers or have a proficiency in Web technologies.

Andrew is an eight-time recipient of Microsofts Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (20052012) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years, including Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development (Wrox, 2008), Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (MSPress, 2011) and (Wrox, 2010), and Real World SharePoint 2010 (Wrox), among others, and is the author of numerous articles both for the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and for various magazines.

Andrew has presented at numerous conferences in the United States, Europe, and Australia. You can find Andrew on his blog ( www.andrewconnell.com/blog ) or follow him on Twitter @andrewconnell.