Question: In sharepoint 2007, when you were looking at a list there was already a default drop down box to change the list view.

![Sharepoint 2007 View Selection](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4Osm.png)

Now that we have upgraded to Sharepoint 2010, we have noticed that this drop down box is hidden in the ribbon control "List" tab which you have to click then you can select the drop down box value.

![Sharepoint 2010 First Click to View Selection](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mjlIB.png)
![Sharepoint 2010 Second Click to View Selection](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BLMnn.png)

Is there a way to add the drop down box to the default view in Sharepoint 2010?

Answer: 
It is important that you get an understanding of how the SharePoint platform fits together. Have a look at the architecture and understand how different components relate to each other. This is a link to an architectural overview:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg552610.aspx>

Setup a sandpit and play around with the environment. Gain an understanding of the different elements (lists, libraries, security, sites, central administration, services).

This link has some ideas for some courses/exams:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pandrew/archive/2008/05/01/getting-started-with-sharepoint-development.aspx>

This link has some other detailed learning material such as videos and labs:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/aa905692>

<http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/10/30/sharepoint-2010-development-tutorial-videos-2/>

<http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/2010/05/free-sharepoint-2010-developer-tutorial.html>

The MSDN site is a great reference for SharePoint API information.

Setup a development environment for SharePoint and run through some tutorials - you need a local instance of SharePoint installed on your development environment.
Here are some tutorial links:
<http://dotnetguts.blogspot.com/2008/06/sharepoint-development-tutorial.html>
Welcome to the SharePoint world :)

When you're learning something new, it is important to get familiar with the new language and terms used in SharePoint environment. 

Please spent some time Googling these terms to figure out what they mean. There are tons of [great resources available online](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262880.aspx) for anything and everything SharePoint. For example:

**Site:** In SharePoint, sites are the building blocks, where users can share data in lists and libraries or view and edit Web Part pages. They're created for a specific purpose, so for example, a company may create an HR site, an Accounting site and a Project Management site.

**Site Collection:** A site collection is a group of sites that are related. These sites have the same owner and administration settings. Site collections have a hierarchy; there's always at least one top-level site in a site collection, with subsites underneath. Every Web application contains at least one site collection.

**Web applications:** They provide services, as opposed to Web sites, which typically just display information. Web applications are Web sites that run on IIS. They help create a company's information environment. They are hosted on the Web server.

**Assembly**: a partially compiled code library used in deployment, versioning and security within the .NET framework Uh, what? What's a code library? What is versioning? What's a .NET framework?

**APIs, or Application programming interfaces**: APIs are what let you do everything that you can do in the SharePoint user interface, like creating new sites or workspaces, uploading photos or documents, and creating tasks and alerts.

**Child**: This term helps show hierarchy within SharePoint, specifically within sites. A child site is a subsite of the top-level, or parent, site.

**Farm, or server farm:** A group of servers that share the same administrative tools and are part of the same organization or group.

**IIS, or Internet Information Services:** The Web server that Microsoft uses to host SharePoint. It runs on Windows Server 2003.
Edited to add: IIS doesn't necessarily run on Windows Server 2003. There are different versions of IIS depending on the operating system you have, such as Windows XP or Windows 2008. So for example, IIS 7.0 runs on Windows Server 2008, and IIS 6.0 runs on Windows 2003.

**Library:** Sites have libraries, which store data. The most common library in SharePoint is the document library, but you can use libraries to store any kind of files or data.

**List:** A table of data that is stored in a site. Lists help provide data like tasks, discussions and links.

**.NET Framework:** Versions 2 and 3 of this set of software installs ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

**Parent:** This term helps show hierarchy within SharePoint, specifically within sites. A parent site is the site located one level higher in site hierarchy; it can also have one parent, and one or several children (subsites).

**Root Site** Is the top-level site in site collection. There can be only one root site in the single site collection.

**Root Site Collection** Is the top-level site collection in web application. 

Learn to step-up the SharePoint Development environments and start development!

happy SharePointing :)