Product Description

"The Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform" teaches developers how to build solutions that leverage the WSS v3 platform. Many developers are not yet familiar with this platform and its capabilities, so the first few chapters focus on the out-of-the-box experience and how to secure solutions built on top of it. From there, the book explores some of the key aspects of the WSS v3 platform and how to leverage them for building applications. Throughout the book, practical programming solutions using real-world examples are used to illustrate the possibilities of SharePoint and to teach developers how to build their own applications. Some application components covered include Features, Site Definitions, Web Services, Web Parts, Events, and Workflows. The book also teaches how to migrate from 2.0 to 3.0 and to work with the object model and built-in WSS Web Services in various settings. Developers who want to usurp the fundamental capabilities of WSS v3 rather than building those facilities themselves will find everything they need. The book doesn't attempt to cover the capabilities of Microsoft Office Server System 2007 (MOSS), but MOSS is based entirely on WSS v3 so all the examples found in this book can also be used in that environment too. In fact, everything covered in this book equally applies to WSS v3 and MOSS. While this book attempts to bring developers from the ground up, any Web-based .NET programming experience will prove helpful in understanding the concepts presented within. The C# language is used exclusively in the text but there are comparable VB.NET code listings on the CD-ROM.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158267 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

About the Author
Todd C. Bleeker, Ph.D. is an author,educator, speaker, and master technologist specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. He is an industry leader on this amazing product and was co-author of the Microsoft Press book, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step-by-Step. He also co-authored the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit. He regularly runs technical training
events for companies of all sizes, and is the co-owner of Mindsharp, a company that offers educational training on leading-edge Microsoft products.He holds an MBA and a BS in Management Information Systems.

Customer Reviews

First to market
The author is to be commended for getting this published as quickly as he did. For a time (first half '07) this was the best, most in-depth coverage of deep development of SharePoint features with .NET. However, these topics receive more current and relevant treatement in "Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pattison and Larson) and I would recommend that book instead. Hence the three star rating.

Not my kind of book
I would recommend "Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 " instead of this book. That book feels more upto date with the subject.

Great Development book from Bleeker
Todd Bleeker is enthusiastic about SharePoint, and it shows. This book is a great resource for people wanting to get up to speed with programming in SharePoint 2007. Todd gives a lot of examples and lots of background on the subject covered. I'm not a developer and I could understand the book and was able to follow along and even use some of the examples.

If you want to get your feet wet with SharePoint programming, you can't go wrong with this book.