What you need for this book

As this Packt Compendium is a mash-up of published Packt content, the prerequisites may vary between each chapter. Everything you need for this book is detailed here respectively according to each original title.

Chapters taken from SharePoint 2010 Business Application Development Blueprints require only that you have SharePoint 2010 Server installed.

Chapters taken from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook require that you have a system with SharePoint 2010 Server Standard installed. You may also need to have installed and configured FAST Search. We recommend downloading and installing 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Virtual Machine environment if you do not have a compatible system set up. The most current link to download the virtual environment can be retrieved by searching for the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM). By downloading the preceding environment, you will ensure all of the configurations and setups have been performed and your system is ready for using PowerShell with SharePoint.

Chapter taken from Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration require that you have:

Chapters taken from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 require that you have a Windows Phone 7 device, as well as:

It is worth noting that the Windows Phone 7 Emulator will not run on a machine running other virtualization software and as such, the Windows 7 machine can neither run on a virtual machine nor on other virtual machines while the emulator is running.

Chapters taken from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook require that you have a 64-bit Windows development machine with lots of memory.