Product Description

SharePoint Designer allows you to design your own collaborative systems and processes across your enterprises inside the SharePoint platform. This in-depth Bible takes you from the basics through advanced features of SharePoint Designer, from application development to ongoing management after the systems are in place. Written by a SharePoint Designer expert, this guide makes Designer accessible for newcomers but is also full of insight, tips, and techniques for veterans who want to improve their system designs and increase productivity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64811 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470386446
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Master SharePoint Designer with these information-packed pages

As SharePoint Server allows better Web-based collaboration, SharePoint Designer now gives developers better tools to design the many Web pages and sites necessary to support that widespread collaboration. With pages of step-by-step instructions from a Microsoft engineer, this essential guide shows you how to build effective, dynamic Web pages for the SharePoint Server platform, from the basics to advanced authoring and publishing. Topics include DHTML, the role of FrontPage legacy components, using ASP.NET controls, and much more.

• Work with SharePoint and non-SharePoint data sources, the Data Form Web Part, and Web part connections

• Use ASP.NET 2.0 to provide Web controls for many of the common Web site operations

• Design style sheets, master pages, and page layouts

• Create hit counters, forms, and Web site search capabilities

• Master remote authoring technologies, including FrontPage® RPC and SOAP

• Design and troubleshoot declarative SharePoint workflows

• Manage and publish SharePoint and non-SharePoint Web sites

• Understand client-server communication protocols and technologies

About the Author
Vikram Kartik has been heavily engaged in providing support to Microsoft customers and partners by using FrontPage and SharePoint technologies through the Microsoft product support organization for the past six years. He began in FrontPage product support and now works as a support escalation engineer in the SharePoint escalation services at Microsoft.

Customer Reviews

Not worth the money
Sadly, this book tries to be all things to all people and fails at most. I suspect this is not the fault of the author but rather the publisher who probably dictated the content of the book. The book suffers from a lack of good examples and only a few sparse exercises. It has, however, mastered the art of giving high level statements with very little actual information.

If you are interested in learning the ins and outs of manipulating your SharePoint sites, master pages, templates etc. this book offers very little. Seeing as how that is what people actually want SP Designer to do, this is too bad.

About a quarter of the book is dedicated to work flows. There are at least three other books solely devoted to work flows. Someone running a Microsoft focus group must have took a note "people are interested in work flows" and boom - over kill! These are just not that complicated.

On the flips side, another quarter of the book focuses on hooking into data sources (provided they are on your site). No mention of the fact that the most powerful aspect - the external data linking - BDC-requires the enterprise license which is not standard and costs extra. The attempt to deal with data connections gets bogged down pretty quickly in jargon and assumptions that you have been working with data connections in the past. If you are veteran of hooking up DBs on websites, this section may be helpful.

Finally, the book also attempts to give a lip service for those poor fools who might attempt to use SP Designer for regular sites. Yikes! Don't bother. There are much better tools for that. You won't learn much from this book as it attempts to give you an html primer but falls flat on its face. Get a real book for that.

Not a lot of depth
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a reworking of Microsoft's older FrontPage product, customized to work with SharePoint.

It is a difficult tool to describe because several disciplines must be learned to master it and, more importantly, there are so many different uses to which it can be put.

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007" is an attempt to put everything one needs to know in one place. It sort of succeeds and sort of doesn't.

It provides a somewhat superficial overview of designing for the web immediately after an even more superficial overview of server technologies. Quite honestly, if you don't have a background in both these subjects, this book will not help you. It is more a review tool than a teaching tool.

The rest of the book follows the same path: lots of subjects, with none of them covered in any real depth.

This might be useful as a lightweight reference, but for the SharePoint beginner and the experienced user, it simply doesn't cut the mustard. That is not so much the fault of the author, whose style is good, but of the too broad scope of the book.

Jerry

Unfortunately not helpful - just demonstrative
The content of the book attracted me to buy it. Unfortunately I was frustrated with the lack of explanation on almost every topic I was trying to research.
It is a 'demonstrative' book, not a learning one. they show you 'how to' click here and there and in which sequence to do what. Well, I could have figure out that myself by just going through the screens. But I could not find a single topic where they will explain how things glue together, how to apply a specific feature in different scenarios or ways, or how illustrate the extent of the power of any given feature.
I personally was specificaly interested on how the multiple data bound controls & sources work and found the text very useless.
Went into a couple more topics, like workflow implementation and customizing lists and found the same pattern.
I'll reccomend save the money on this one. I found Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) a much better book (to my surprise) as I generally have found multi-author books to be very bad. Bought both together, I'm keeping the wrox one and I'm re-selling this one here.