Book Giveaway: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer)

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Celebrating our first year anniversary, figured its time to do another book giveaway. After reading, Great new SharePoint book by Ted and Dan, see you at TechEd by Tony Bierman where he gives his approval for Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) written by Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson.

Book Giveaway: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer)

Here’s an excerpt of what the book has to offer:

With this book, you will learn 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

Rules

Learning from my last giveaway, entering in for the raffle will be very easy. All you have to do is comment below on what SharePoint 2007 topics you would like to see covered more. I will pick a random comment and they will get the book shipped.

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    46 Responses to “Book Giveaway: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer)”

    1. Richard Koneval said on Thursday, June 7, 2007, 16:13

      I would like to see more information on extranet’s and how to architect them.

    2. Dave said on Thursday, June 7, 2007, 16:28

      Portals!

    3. David Morse said on Thursday, June 7, 2007, 21:42

      I would like to see more on features & solutions and how they can be used to replace the custom site def we used to build in WSSv2

    4. Eleri Morgan said on Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:42

      I would like to see information on reverse engineering SharePoint masterpages (completley customising portal and team sites)

    5. John Ferringer said on Friday, June 8, 2007, 9:10

      How about more information on securing a WSS or MOSS installation?

    6. Dattard said on Friday, June 8, 2007, 10:11

      Out of the box Sharepoint customization using SharePoint Designer or otherwise.

    7. Vijay Shanker said on Friday, June 8, 2007, 10:30

      Need more information about how to build web parts.
      How we can customize presentation. How to customize based on user profile.

    8. Gene Magerr said on Sunday, June 10, 2007, 9:06

      Hi all

      I’d like to see an article detailing all the steps necessary to install and configure MOSS 2007. Something that would give an admin setting up SP for the first time a solid foundation. You could start with Pre installation tasks like creating the service accounts, where they go, what they will be used for. Next SSP creation and what exactly an SSP will provide, then move on to the Application pool…. Etc. You get the idea. The information is out there, but it would be nice to have one place that covered the setup in great detail. Better to do it right the first time.

    9. Ben Davis said on Monday, June 11, 2007, 14:18

      My company is attempting a side-by-side installation of WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0 on a VM. I’d like to hear from others who may be playing with SharePoint on VM. I’m also keen to reading anything relating to InfoPath as it relates to SharePoint.

    10. Step van Schalkwyk said on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 11:49

      Things I’d like to see covered in depth:
      Code:
      1. Incorporating AJAX into web parts;
      2. Web Part communications (between web parts);
      3. Globalizing AJAX-based web parts;
      4. Parts interacting with WCF services.

      Deployment:
      1. Deployment of server farms outside Active Directory or Domains;
      2. Securing public facing server farms.

      Thanks!
      Step.

    11. Christy Satterfield said on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 12:39

      I work in Higher Education and an advantage of Sharepoint is that it is all ready included in our agreement. With this said, we are planning on taking SharePoint/MOSS and developing a public facing internet site. More information published over the set-up and deployment of internet facing websites on a single server and server farm setup would be great.

    12. splogic said on Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 15:53

      Topics needed to cover in more detail:
      - Deployment in general with real life examples and scenarios.
      - Deployment specifically of custom applications on top of SharePoint
      - Depoloyment of indivudal components of SharePoint (features, masterpages, etc.)
      - User Control integration in SharePoint WebPartPages
      - Automating / styling and customization of user interface components in web parts
      - Custom Search including custom search webparts and xslt customizations
      - Busines Data Catalog with real life examples and scenarios addressing following issues:
      > Many to many relationships in Data models
      > unique identifiers
      > composite keys
      - A whole section on crawl management and optimization
      - more information on ECM and WCM with step by step walkthroughs
      - some practical examples on records management
      - a lot of examples on workflows

    13. BK said on Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 23:32

      I would like to see more articles on advanced list features/customizations

    14. Chris said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 0:53

      It would be great to have a good guide on how to choose between creating / customing SharePoint with the Web Interface, SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.

    15. Sujath said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 1:08

      I would lke to add some tutorials on SiteDefinitions, BDC and AJAX Sharepoint Webparts

    16. Domagoj Kova? said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 3:22

      CMS style usage of MOSS in extranet and internet scenarios.

    17. Dragan Panjkov said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 4:05

      Most of previous responses were quite good.
      But, what is needed can be complex filtering of items in SharePoint List Views using dropdown lists, creating complex lookup fields, more details on customizing and localization of web parts and web part decvelopment in general. Also, I think that overall development process - from planning to implementation based on some rules should be covered in more detail

    18. Nelson Santos said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 5:39

      Hi!

      I would like to see information about:

      1. Running AJAX on Web Parts
      2. Personalization and customatization of portals - Ways to make the deploy
      3. A whole section about integration between intranet and internet portals
      3. Step-by-step migration from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 using the Database Migration method

      And that all!

    19. Maarten van Stam said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 8:59

      - Do and don’ts in Production installations
      - Backup Scenarios
      - Custom Content Types in conjunction with Workflow Scenarios
      - Versioning in Workflows
      - Source Control for SharePoint customizations
      - Localization
      - Implementing SilverLight in SharePoint
      - Can you use Expression Blend/Suite/Web with SharePoint

      -= Maarten =-

    20. Becky Isserman said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 9:27

      In general a lot of places are lacking how to write webparts for MOSS 2007. Maybe add an intro to webparts section that has a tutorial on how to write a “hello world” webpart and then some that add controls. I would like to see a lot more dealings with webparts and the object model. Maybe how to manipulate and create custom lists from the object model.
      I am also noticing a lack in good tutorials related to writing an application definition for the business data catalog.
      I would also like to see more about writing custom websites for Sharepoint in Asp .Net 2.0 and something about MOSS 2007 running at an institution only using Office 2003 (talk about the ntages and advantages to running Office 2003 and Office 2007 alongside MOSS 2007).
      This is a really good idea to shove a post out there like this one. You should put out a post like this every once in a while. It is great for topic ideas and project ideas.

    21. masta-smooky said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 11:05

      More about creating and using Connectable SharePoint Web Parts

    22. Kyla said on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 16:37

      I’d really like to see more about master pages, themes, grouping sites and organization from a top down level to reflect our companies corporate standards.

    23. Leung said on Thursday, June 21, 2007, 2:36

      I would like to know more on the internal working model so as to develop better web parts on MOSS 2007

    24. Marco said on Friday, June 22, 2007, 1:41

      Publishing list items on other portals.
      How to pre-configure the my sites so users get a head start.

    25. Marco said on Friday, June 22, 2007, 1:43

      Just came up with another one. :)
      Installing MOSS 2k7 with (dba) prepared databases.

    26. H said on Friday, June 22, 2007, 5:46

      Forms server
      Webparts
      Deoployment of webfarms

    27. Gyan said on Friday, June 22, 2007, 14:04

      * Records Management within a regulated industry (e.g. FDA).
      * Accessing user profile information in workflows.
      * Workflows with VS
      * Adding servers that will take over dominant roles.
      * External facing MOSS sites.
      * Many of the Workflow tutorials I’ve come across either are using MOSS Designer which is too limited for complicated workflows because of a lack of access to information, or they use VS and expect a very high degree of programming ability. So, VS workflow dev. from start to finish with all the little steps well explained, detailed, and with screen shots.

    28. Prasanna said on Friday, June 22, 2007, 21:26

      I would like to see the most COMMON features on Share Point used across industry & would love to see case-studies on each of those.

    29. vishal said on Sunday, June 24, 2007, 17:15

      One of the challenges that I have with Shahrepoint is the difficulty in customizing the WSS implementation for an intranet for a small business. The default setup isn’t optimal for most intranets. I couldn’t find any good book anywhere on best practices for creating an Intranet with minimal custom programming.

    30. Vrishali said on Monday, June 25, 2007, 10:27

      Our company is implementing a huge sharepoint portal with WSS 3.0 which will be consumed by more than 10,000 users.

      We are looking at sharepoint to exploit the following features -

      1. Collaboration
      2. Workflows

    31. Paul J. said on Monday, June 25, 2007, 16:29

      Using SPS 3.0 with SQL Server BI features

    32. Marius Constantinescu said on Monday, June 25, 2007, 22:48

      Hi guys,
      We would be interested in configuring extranet SharePoint and understanding for real the settings of AAM, zones and related.

      Thank you!

    33. Reka Kovacs said on Monday, June 25, 2007, 23:05

      Hello!

      Me and one of my colleague started 1 year ago to develop our company’s portal with the ‘fresh’ SharePoint product, mostly to automate the business processes. Since then, we had several SharePoint projects, facing different types of problems :).(eg. from internet facing sites to records management)
      We are mostly interested on how ‘far’ we can go also with the development capabilities of SharePoint 2007.
      My personal interest is for my PhD diploma, where I want to extend SharePoint’s Search to be more a semantic one.

      PS: I will keep my fingers crossed..to get this book;)

    34. Michael S. said on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 8:56

      I am a project manager for my company and we have just received the approval of our executive committee to implement SPS 3.0 initially, as a guinea pig, in the Program Management Office with the eventual outcome of our intranet running off of SPS 3.0. On this project, I will be the PM as well as the local admin for the PMO. We are a relatively small consumer electronics firm, and are looking to create a portal for project teams to collaborate globally as well as manage project communication flows.

    35. Donna Shaver said on Monday, July 2, 2007, 18:02

      I’d like to see what you can get outta Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for free…. plus free WebParts. (Okay, the company I work for is pretty cheap!)

    36. Dave Parker said on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 17:56

      Hi,
      I’d like to see more on customising Sharepoint (master pages,etc). More on using workflows and more on integrating external data sources into a sharepoint site.

      Oh, also, more on personalisation for users and how to overcome security concerns (data protection, sox, etc) so that you can guarantee the user gets only their data.

    37. Reuben said on Friday, July 6, 2007, 8:45

      more of Workflow Foundation

    38. Bonnie White said on Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 14:29

      A walk-through on updating, adding, deleting back-end datasources through the BDC. I’ve read suggestions that this could be done by linking an entity action to an InfoPath form, but have not found examples.

      Thanks,
      Bonnie

    39. Mohamad said on Saturday, July 14, 2007, 11:22

      Hi,

      How about building advanced human workflows for WSS using ASPX forms?

    40. Vikas Sah said on Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 5:06

      I would like to see a case study on how to go about using Sharepoint Services to implement a social networking site.

      thanks,
      Vikas.

    41. boopalan said on Sunday, July 29, 2007, 10:16

      I would like to see topics covering on the following areas..
      > Configuring search MOSS 2007
      > Having webparts in Master Pages
      > Switching between Master pages programmatically
      > Possibility of implementing ATLAS 2.0 or AJAX framework in webparts
      > Internals of Wiki and Blog sites architecture
      > Forms authentication and single sign on with forms authentication
      > BDC - crawling of contents of other sharepoint applications

      These things will, perhaps, need a hard work-out ;-)

    42. Sharmaine said on Friday, August 3, 2007, 0:33

      I would like to see more info on building applications with the basic wss tools and possibley using Sharepoint Designer

    43. Sharepoint BUZZ said on Monday, August 6, 2007, 12:37

      34 Entries, but only 1 Winner!

      In the first week of June 2007, I tackled with the idea on how to celebrate SharePoint Buzz’s first year of blogging. The simplest thing I could come up with was a SharePoint book giveaway.
      After reading, Great new SharePoint book by Ted and Dan…

    44. SharePoint for Business - Learn Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Sharepoint BUZZ said on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 0:44

      [...] it possible for everyone. So I’m going to include one copy of this report to the winner of my Book Giveaway: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer).

    45. whitemagna said on Sunday, March 30, 2008, 21:52

      more bdc with xml example

    46. preyashdesai@gmail.com said on Thursday, September 25, 2008, 6:23

      I would like to see in depth detail in WSS, specially in following areas,
      - Webparts ..front end etc.
      - AJAX and other scripting in SP
      - RDBMS in MSSQL
      - More design topics then technical ones!!
      - Some examples senarios.
      Thanks you

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