Product Description

Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 is the third edition of Scot Hilliers market-leading SharePoint book. This book features extensive updates to the previous edition, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It also features new approaches for using SharePoint to improve business efficiency as well as new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, plus a new chapter on building a SharePoint solution from start to finish.

With this book, youll gain intermediate-level guidance for designing and deploying business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 technologies. Hillier defines the business cases and scenarios for these technologies. He also reviews the installation, configuration, and administration of business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies, and provides programming instruction, guidance, and examples for custom web parts and solutions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #372615 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

About the Author
Scot Hillier is an independent consultant focused on SharePoint, the Microsoft Office System, and .NET technologies. Scot has authored eight books on Microsoft technologies over the last ten years, as well as numerous articles appearing in magazines and online. In addition to writing, Scot often presents nationally to analysts, decision makers, and developers. Scot is a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. When not working, Scot can be found at home with his family, playing games and taking walks. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com, and more information about his books is available at www.sharepointstuff.com.

Customer Reviews

An introductory book.
I'm not sure where the C# is in this book. As an experienced web developer, I bought it specifically to learn how to design, implement, and ultimately use the Content Management features of SharePoint .This book offered very little in that regard. All the examples required the use of SharePoint designer when most (if not all) C# developers are going to want to use Visual Studio. In the end, there was very little C# and lots of overview. Very disappointed.

Great intro and mid-level work on SharePoint
This book's a critical resource if you're doing development on the SharePoint 2007 platform. The book hits a solid overview of the many features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and also gives you good dives into many of those same features. The book also deals with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and lays out differences between WSS and MOSS.

Hillier does a great job of covering the gory details of MOSS and hits the pros and cons of each feature. One example would be the hideous XML you have to hand-generate for working with the Business Data Catalog. He also does a great job discussing one of my recent pain points: workflow. Hillier lays out the strengths of the feature (workflow's power of process automation), then talks about the warts of the feature (design difficulties, numerous issues surrounding SharePoint Designer, etc.). Hillier is also honest about where MOSS features fall short, such as the note laying Hillier's preference for the K2 workflow engine over that of native Windows Workflow Foundation on MOSS.

The book is structured in a concise, highly usable fashion. Hillier discusses topics, then uses clearly written examples to walk you through the topic. All the examples are implemented in an environment that Hillier focuses an entire chapter on setting up. That chapter (#2) is one of the book's gems since it shows you how to get an entire development infrastructure set up and configured using Virtual Server to host three separate machines.

If you've already had exposure to MOSS then the book may not have a lot of extras for you. The dives into each feature aren't necessarily extremely deep dives, but they are good enough to get you well-versed with the concepts.

Hillier's book is an absolute must-have if you're looking to move in to any sort of work on the MOSS platform.

Microsoft should ship this book with MOSS
I have been trying to get ramped up on SharePoint 2007 ever since before the Beta 2 Tech Refresh a few months ago. To say that the landscape of good information on SharePoint 2007 is slim would be an understatement. The SDK that Microsoft ships is barely usable.

Scott Hillier's book really took things to the next level in my opinion. If you are going to be customizing the out of the box SharePoint setup, then I can't recommend this book highly enough. It was easy to read and well edited, I was able to make it through most of the book on a 6 hour trip I just went on. Excellent book... if you can afford only one, I'd go for this one.