Product Description

Focus in on the internals of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 platform with this in-depth, straightforward reference. You get expert insights, task-oriented guidance, and extensive code samples to help you master the intricacies of building robust, enterprise content management applications. Discover how to: •Build application pages and site pages •Develop and deploy reusable Web parts to enable customization and personalization •Exploit Windows SharePoint APIs to deploy Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX components •Use XML and Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) to create provisioning components •Design and implement custom document libraries •Use Windows Workflow Foundation to create applications that automate business process •Create Site Definitions to aggregate components and package them for deployment •Implement Code Access Security, Trust Levels, authentication, and authorization PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual C# and XML code samples on the Web 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87762 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 398 pages

About the Author
Ted Pattison is a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine with a column
titled "Basic Instincts." His company, the Ted Pattison Group, specializes
in Windows SharePoint Services training and development. Ted wrote the
Windows SharePoint Services 3 pre-release courseware for Microsoft and
taught the class around the world. His previous books include Programming
Distributed Applications with COM+ and Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0
(Microsoft Press, 2000).

Customer Reviews

A genuinely good book
Recently I've started to lean towards using the Internet when I have a technical problem that I can't get past.

I bought this book to help with studying for my MCTS certification and found the answer to a problem I hadn't been able to resolve for days.

Microsoft Press books can be awful and too high level, but this one is very good in my opinion. I'd feel happy recommending it.

A great intro to SharePoint coding for .Net developers
If you are a .Net programmer and are begining to do work with SharePoint then this book is a great place to start.
All the exercises and code in this book work on both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 versions of SharePoint technologies.

I like the way that within a couple of chapters you get going with some great Features with examples and code provided for you. Then you start learning in more detail about how all the pieces (of SharePoint, IIS and SQL) fit together, so giving you the confidence to start experimenting.
Best practices are emphasised throughout, and each chapter gives you a chunk of knowledge you can use right away.

Although this book was published 2 years ago, it is a great way to learn the key knowledge for SharePoint development. Once finished, just add 3 extra tools to make your life easier: VSEWSS from Microsoft, and WSPBuilder and maybe STSDev from Codeplex.

I have owned my well thumbed copy for ages, and I have lost count of the people I have recommended this book to.

Excellent coverage of SharePoint
This is an excellent book for the person new to SharePoint. It covers SharePoint from the ground up, how WSS builds on ASP.NET / IIS, the inner working of SharePoint, etc.

And it also "reads well" ... I hate tech books that have the details, but are a pain to read

Well recommended