Over the past few years, Microsoft SharePoint has experienced a rapid rate of adoption in the software industry. As more and more companies and organizations begin to use SharePoint technologies, there has also been a significant increase in the number of software development projects that targets SharePoint environment. The industry is currently witnessing scores of professional developers who are migrating to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 from other development platforms, such as Microsoft ASP.NET, Lotus Notes, and Enterprise JavaBeans.
Every deployment of SharePoint 2010 is based on the concept of a farm. In short, a SharePoint farm is a set of one or more server computers that work together to serve up SharePoint sites and to provide functionality to clients. For a development environment, you can set up a SharePoint 2010 farm by installing and configuring everything you need on a single server. In production scenarios, a SharePoint farm might include a dozen or more server computers.
Several different products are associated with SharePoint 2010. For example, one farm could be running SharePoint Foundation 2010, while another farm is running SharePoint Server 2010. There are also multiple versions of SharePoint Server 2010, including the Standard edition and the Enterprise edition. When you create a new SharePoint development project, you must make assumptions about the types of farms that you will target. For example, the SharePoint publishing features are included with all editions of SharePoint Server 2010, but they are not included in SharePoint Foundation. If you create a development project that builds on top of the SharePoint publishing features, you will not be able to deploy that project on SharePoint 2010 farms that are running only SharePoint Foundation.
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