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The best book on the market for SharePoint 2003 Developers, 14 Jan 2005
This review is from: Sharepoint Products & Technologies Resource Kit Book/CD Package (Pro-Resource Kit) (Paperback)
This book provides the best text resource currently on the market for SharePoint 2003 developers and other such technical savvy users who need to know not just the basics, but about the nuts and bolts of the SharePoint products and technologies. The book covers both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services and covers all aspects of design, development, deployment, through to customisation and troubleshooting.
On the cover, it claims that Bill English, the author has worked with the Microsoft SharePoint teams in producing this Resource Kit. I have used this book for over six months and it is obvious that Bill has in-fact worked along with them. Throughout, the author is able to provide vast in-depth information into SharePoint 2003, while still presenting the information in a clear, well-formatted and understandable manner.
The book is divided into eleven sections covering the introduction of SharePoint products and technologies, Architecture, Planning and Deployment, Administration, Information Management, Security through to Office Integrations and Maintenance. It covers all the areas of SharePoint from basic to advanced functionality and although the book hasn't answered all my questions thrown at it, I have found time and time again, it is the only one with a chance of doing so, or at least putting me on the right track.
Some of the material in the book is repeated on the MSDN web site in various articles, though the book is a lot easier to use than the Microsoft MSDN search facility.
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This book is out of date, 23 Feb 2010
This review is from: Sharepoint Products & Technologies Resource Kit Book/CD Package (Pro-Resource Kit) (Paperback)
On page 1001 we get to the meat. using Visual Studio .Net to Create Web Parts. Except that it doesn't say which Visual Studio. My assumption has to be that this is VS2005 (superseeded by 2008 and soon 2010). There is no mention of Ajax because the book was written so long ago. The process for VS2008 is completely different.
The penultimate web part example in this book shows you how to create a button that can be clicked and echo back what you typed in a text box (usefull or what?).
Did I say meat? Well the Creation of Web Parts chapter finishes on page 1023.
If you pulled all the code together from this book, it might fill two side of one sheet of paper.
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