I recently sat and passed the MCTS SharePoint 2010 Application Development 70-573 exam. I thought I’d share the list of resources that helped me with my revision.

There are several study guides about now for example: http://blog.beckybertram.com/Lists/Exam%2070573%20Study%20Guide/AllItems.aspx and http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/05/sharepoint-2010-part-1-preparing-for-70.html, but I wanted to record the articles and blogs etc I’d used.

To help I’ve copied in the Microsoft learning content from http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-573&locale=en-us#tab2 

Working with the SharePoint User Interface (19%)

• Manage SPSite and SPWeb programmatically by using Visual Studio 2010
  • Read Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Windows-SharePoint-Services-Developer/dp/0735623201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282250087&sr=8-1
• Implement a dialog by using the Dialog Framework
  • Tobias Zimmergren’s article on the status bar: http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2010/03/17/sp-2010-dynamically-displaying-messages-to-your-users-with-the-notification-and-status-bar-areas-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx 
  • MSDN tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513157.aspx
  • EndUserSharePoint: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/05/27/client-side-ajax-applications-in-sharepoint-2010-%E2%80%93-part-5-modal-dialogs/
• Create a custom ribbon object
  • Chris O’Brien’s ribbon customisation series: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2010/01/customizing-ribbon-part-1-creating-tabs.html
• Customize navigation programmatically
  • SPWeb.Navigation property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.navigation.aspx 
  • Customising the navigation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897739.aspx
  • Custom actions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms465980.aspx
• Create and apply branding to a SharePoint site
  • Working with the theme engine: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/archive/2010/04/09/working-with-the-sharepoint-theming-engine.aspx
  • SPWeb theme property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.themedcssfolderurl.aspx
  • Theme class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.utilities.thmxtheme.aspx
  • Explanation of masterpages MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms443795.aspx
  • Masterpage tokens: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms476046%28office.12%29.aspx
  • CSSLink class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.csslink.aspx

Developing Web Parts and Controls (21%)

• Create Web Parts
  • Basic web part walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms415817.aspx 
  • Wictor Wilen’s web part event diagram: http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/SharePoint-Web-Part-Event-Flow-in-detail.aspx
• Create connectable Web Parts
  • Create connected web parts in SP2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff597538.aspx
• Debug Web Parts
  • Waldek Mastykarz’s article on dev dashboard: http://blog.mastykarz.nl/developer-dashboard-monitoring-performance-solutions/ 
  • Waldek Mastykarz’s article on ULS logging: http://blog.mastykarz.nl/logging-uls-sharepoint-2010/
  • Using SPMonitoredScope: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512758.aspx
• Create and implement delegate controls
  • MSDN delegate control: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms463169.aspx 
  • How to customise a delegate control: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms470880.aspx

Developing Business Logic (19%)

• Implement a custom workflow in Visual Studio 2010
  • MSDN workflows in SP2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms549489.aspx 
  • Implement custom workflow walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231573.aspx
  • Association and initiation form walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231590.aspx
  • Add an application page to a workflow walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231598.aspx
  • Correlation tokens: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms475438.aspx
  • Deploying using a feature: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms414556.aspx
• Create a custom workflow action
  • Expose a custom action in SPD: http://www.chaholl.com/archive/2010/03/13/make-a-custom-activity-available-to-sharepoint-designer-2010.aspx 
  • Create a custom activity walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231574.aspx
  • Workflow actions schema: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897626.aspx
• Create and implement event receivers
  • How to create event receivers in VS2010 video: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff623003.aspx 
  • Walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231563.aspx
• Customize Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
  • Create a custom field control: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa981226(office.12).aspx 
  • Content type hierarchy: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms452896.aspx
• Create, implement and debug a Timer Job
  • Andrew Connell’s article about custom timer jobs: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx 
  • Creating custom timer jobs how to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686(office.12).aspx
  • Debug a timer job P&P: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798310.aspx
• Create and modify Business Connectivity Service model in Visual Studio 2010
  • Creating a BDC model in VS2010 video: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff623022.aspx 
  • Creating a business model walkthrough: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231530.aspx
• Manage Users, Groups, Permissions
  • SPGroup class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spgroup.aspx 
  • SPUser class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spuser.aspx
  • SPRoleDefinition class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.sproledefinition.aspx
  • SPRole class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.sprole.aspx
  • SPRoleAssignment class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.sproleassignment.aspx

Working With SharePoint Data (22%)

• Access list data by using the Server object model
  • SPDevWiki accessing data in SharePoint: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Accessing+list+items+using+the+object+model 
  • Tobias Zimmergren’s article about the CAML behind SPLINQ: http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2010/02/19/sps-2010-linq-to-sharepoint-what-caml-lies-behind-my-query.aspx
  • SharePoint magazine: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/writing-caml-queries-for-retrieving-list-items-from-a-sharepoint-list
  • SPLinq blog article: http://www.makingyourbusinessbetter.com/blog/blog-moss/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=119
  • SPMetal and Entities: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798329.aspx
• Access SharePoint Data by using WCF Data Services
  • Corey Roth’s article on the listdata.svc: http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/01/21/introduction-to-querying-lists-with-rest-and-listdata-svc-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx 
  • WCF Data Services Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2009/10/21/using-data-services-over-sharepoint-2010-part-1-getting-started.aspx
• Access (CRUD) data by using the Client Object Model
  • Tobias Zimmergren’s getting started with client OM: http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2009/11/30/sp-2010-getting-started-with-the-client-object-model-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx 
  • MSDN Client Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857094.aspx
  • Channel 9 video about Silverlight object model: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/SilverlightClientObjectModel/
• Work with documents programmatically
  • SPFile: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.aspx 
  • SPFolder: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfolder.aspx
  • SPFileVersion: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfileversion.aspx
• Work with the meta data
  • User profile manager class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.userprofiles.userprofilemanager.aspx
  • Taxonomy namespace: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.taxonomy.aspx
  • Chris O’Brien’s article series: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2009/12/managed-metadata-in-sharepoint-2010-key.html
• Extending SharePoint Search
  • Customise search results how to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896018(office.12).aspx 
  • Search query object model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms455094(office.12).aspx
  • Query class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.search.query.query.aspx
  • FullTextQuery: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.search.query.fulltextsqlquery.aspx
  • KeywordQuery: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.search.query.keywordquery.aspx
• Implement and debug code that executes in an alternative security context
  • Waldek Mastykarz’s article on CAS: http://blog.mastykarz.nl/code-access-security-policy-template-visual-studio-2010-sharepoint-developer-tools/
  • MSDN RunWithElevatedPrivieges: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spsecurity.runwithelevatedprivileges.aspx
  • Elevating using a UserToken: http://solutionizing.net/2009/01/06/elegant-spsite-elevation/ or http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms469253.aspx
• Create and modify a custom content type
  • Walkthrough which upgrades a content type: http://qwertconsulting.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/versioning-and-upgrading-your-features-with-sharepoint-2010-application-lifecycle-management/
  • MSDN creating content types with VS2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff623016.aspx
  • Deploying content types: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479975.aspx

Stabilizing and Deploying SharePoint Components (19%)

• Manage a solution in Visual Studio 2010
  • MS VS2010 blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vssharepointtoolsblog/archive/2009/11/02/getting-started-with-the-sharepoint-packaging-designers.aspx
• Manage a feature by using Visual Studio 2010
  • Chris O’Brien’s upgrading series: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2010/06/feature-upgrade-part-1-fundamentals.html
• Store and retrieve configuration data
  • Web modification class on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebconfigmodification.aspx
  • Web modification known issues: http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=459
  • SPPersistedObject tutorial: http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/1554-sppersistedobject-class-sharepoint-tutorial.aspx
  • Wictor Wilen’s 6 ways article: http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Six-ways-to-store-settings-in-SharePoint.aspx
• Create a site definition by using Visual Studio 2010
  • MSDN walkthrough for basic site definition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231583.aspx
  • MSDN walkthrough for content in site definition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff189392.aspx
• Manage SharePoint object life cycle by using the Dispose API
  • SPDisposeCheck homepage: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
  • Dispose patterns: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rogerla/archive/2008/02/12/sharepoint-2007-and-wss-3-0-dispose-patterns-by-example.aspx
• Develop, debug, and deploy sandboxed solutions
  • MSDN magazine article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335711.aspx 
  • Blog explaining how to create a sandbox solution in VS2010: http://blogs.salmanghani.info/?p=349
  • Blog covering most Sandbox topics including API restrictions and Full Trust Proxies: http://blah.winsmarts.com/2009-12-SharePoint_2010_Sandboxed_Solutions__The_Definitive_Guide.aspx
  • Sandbox on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539417.aspx

I hope you find this information useful 😀