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: #318293 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

Disappointing overall.
When I get a book, especially a technical one, I generally go through the table of contents to get a high-level overview. When I did that with this book, it seemed comprehensive and well laid out. Unfortunately, as I actually began to read the book, two things made the going very rough. First, there are a huge number of annoying typos. And second, the author makes reference to things before explaining what they are. As a result, you find yourself flipping pages looking for explanatory material about what you have just read. Very quickly I just gave up. I passed this along to another fellow at work, a network technician, who will probably be able to make good use of it as a reference book. But for someone like myself, a developer looking for an introduction to WSS v3, this volume was disappointing. At the same time I bought this book, I also purchase Scot Hillier's book, "Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005". Scot's book starts with the business case, then proceeds nicely to the technical issues. I highly recommend Hillier's book to any developer looking for a good foundation in WSS v3.

Not impressed
I have read more than half of the book and am very disappointed with the content. He spends far too much time explaining how things were done in SharePoint Services v2 and then how they are different in v3. I was hoping for more information about how to do things in SharePoint v3 but there is not enough meat to actually get in and do anything.

Good To Be First On The Market
I agree with the other reviews here... this is a well thought out book and Todd definitely explains the technology well.

This book would have been perfect.. if I didnt get to the first big code example (page 205-209) and find so many bugs.. Work thru setting up this project and you will see what I mean. This has kind of scared me away from the rest of the coding examples in the book.. some other typos and such (isnt it a foreword????) that made me smile right off..

Bottom line - SPS 3.0 explained well, dont trust the coding examples.