Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Opening SharePoint Sites in SharePoint Designer

Before we launch into analyzing the SharePoint Designer 2010 interface and features, the first thing we need to do is to open SharePoint Designer, which goes hand-in-hand with opening SharePoint 2010 sites. This section demonstrates how you can open existing SharePoint 2010 sites in SharePoint Designer 2010 and looks at how to work within the context of SharePoint sites and access site content in SharePoint Designer.

There are several ways to open SharePoint sites in SharePoint Designer 2010, as outlined in this section.