The Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 General Reference describes the technologies that SharePoint Foundation 2010 provides for developers. It contains overview information and step-by-step, how-to procedures for programming with SharePoint Foundation 2010 that can help you get started writing applications.

• What's New in SharePoint Foundation 2010 provides an easy way to learn about new features, feature enhancements, and general improvements to feature behaviors.

• Getting Started with Development for SharePoint Foundation provides an introduction to SharePoint Foundation. This section provides a conceptual overview, a programming model overview, information on leveraging development tools, and quick access to frequent programming questions.

• SharePoint Foundation Building Blocks provides an introduction to the features of SharePoint Foundation. Each building block contains overview information to help you get started with an area quickly. This section also contains key programming tasks such as converting date and time values, getting references to objects, and registering namespaces.

• SharePoint Foundation Development In Depth provides in-depth programming information on the features of SharePoint Foundation. This section includes the server object model, client object model, packaging and deployment, user interface and Ribbon, and queries and data retrieval.

• SharePoint Foundation Security provides information on how to use the object model for security and administration of SharePoint Foundation. This section includes logging, Windows PowerShell, upgrade, authentication, and claims-based identity.

• SharePoint Foundation Services provides information on the services inside SharePoint Foundation. The services included are search, document management, workflow, and Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

• SharePoint Foundation Services References provides information on the unmanaged APIs in SharePoint Foundation. This section includes schemas, protocols, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), ActiveX control APIs, and Web Parts Page Services Components.

• ECMAScript Object Model Reference provides information on the ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript) object model in SharePoint Foundation. This section includes all of the APIs that are publicly available for use in your code.

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