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ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner's guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort.

Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You'll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to write--and, in turn, to make your life easier.

What you will learn from this book

• Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C#
• How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content
• Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities
• How centralized site design can be easily achieved
• How to add e-commerce functionality to a site
• Methods for enhancing an application's performance

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

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SharePoint Office Pocket Guide is the quick path to sharing documents and building lists. Written specifically for users of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, it covers the ins and outs of SharePoint clearly and concisely. Within minutes, you'll understand how to:

• Create team sites, document libraries, and shared workspaces.
• Add web parts to create custom pages.
• Build searchable libraries of PDF files.
• Link local copies of Word and Excel files to SharePoint workspace copies.
• Reconcile changes from multiple authors.
• Review document history.
• Use the Explorer Views to drag-and-drop files into SharePoint quickly.
• Create data lists that look up values from other lists (look-up tables).
• Group, total, and filter list items using views.
• Use InfoPath form libraries to collect data.

You get the how and why of the top tasks without the tedious menu-by-menu walkthroughs that take hundreds of pages but add little value. SharePoint Office Pocket Guide also includes a guide to online resources that expand your knowledge of specific topics.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) is a built-in feature of Windows Server that allows for the development of collaborative business applications. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is an integrated server offering that leverages the WSS 3.0 features of Windows Server and adds an additional 100+ collaborative features. With WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 combined, you can create a variety of highly collaborative business applications. Using numerous practical, real-world examples, this book discusses implementing custom master pages, programming against site pages, implementing custom application pages, developing custom server controls, and extending existing controls.

The definitive guide to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

"This well-planned and well-written book offers a comprehensive reference for IT professionals, application developers and business analysts working with SharePoint applications." --James A. Robertson, MCSD.NET, Senior Software Engineer, Applied Information Sciences

Deploy and manage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the enterprise with help from this one-stop resource. Through detailed instructions, screenshots, and code samples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to use SharePoint Server and make the most of all its powerful tools and utilities.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: The Complete Reference explains how to develop a customized installation plan, configure the server for optimal performance, and administer users, documents, and content. You'll get full details on designing feature-rich portals and collaboration sites, creating user-friendly forms and workflows, using modular Web Parts, and incorporating business data.

• Install and configure SharePoint Server for the entire enterprise
• Manage the server from the Central Administration site
• Design SharePoint Server portals, websites, lists, and document libraries
• Work with SharePoint Web Parts or build your own
• Ensure cross-site consistency using site columns and content types
• Create site definitions and templates using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
• Build custom workflows using SharePoint Designer
• Extend SharePoint Server using the Object Model and Event Receivers
• Import and map enterprise information using the Business Data Catalog
• Use the advanced services of Office Search and Excel Web Services

Build Data-Driven Web Applications with SharePoint 2010

Leverage the revolutionary development capabilities in SharePoint 2010 to build web-based business applications. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Web Applications: The Complete Reference gets you up and running on the platform and explains how to integrate application services such as content management, business intelligence, offline synchronization, and workflow into your applications.

After reviewing the fundamentals of SharePoint 2010, this comprehensive resource covers the presentation, application services, and data access layers, and discusses the key tools and techniques that are most appropriate for delivering functionality within each layer. Packaging, deployment, and configuration are also covered in this hands-on guide. Real-world examples illustrate specific features, and the code samples contained throughout the book can be used in your own applications.

• Web Parts are reusable components that extract data from existing Microsoft or non-Microsoft applications for use in ASP.NET Web pages; they can also be used to build user controls
• Presents developers with an understanding of how Web Parts work and how they can be developed
• Examines how to secure and integrate Web Parts into other Windows systems (SQL Server, Office, ASP.NET, Content Manager)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has improved and changed dramatically over previous versions of the product. The capabilities of the platform have expanded greatly with the inclusion of an automated workflow engine, web content management capabilities, and a vast number of document management enhancements. However, the value of this tool to an enterprise will depend primarily on the ability of individuals in the organization to understand the features and capabilities of the platform and effectively map those to specific business requirements. This book is designed to mentor and coach business and technical leaders in an organization on the use of SharePoint to address critical information management problems. It gives detailed descriptions and illustrations of the product's functionality and also includes realistic usage scenarios to provide contextual relevance and a personalized learning experience to the reader.

The mission of this book is to provide extensive knowledge to information workers and site managers that will empower them to become SharePoint Application champions in the organization. This book should be the premiere handbook of any active or aspiring SharePoint expert.

To complete the exercises in this book, you should have a basic comfort level using Microsoft Office application to create content and a general understanding of how to interact with a web site through the browser. This book is intended as a starting point for any SharePoint 2007 user whether that user has never used SharePoint before or has some familiarity with a previous version and just wants to understand the differences with the new release.

Chapter 1: Getting Started with SharePoint Server: The first chapter of the book is targeted at users who have either never used SharePoint before or are already familiar with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Windows SharePoint Service v2 and are looking to gain an understanding of what has changed in SharePoint 2007. This chapter lays out the foundation for important terminology and concepts explored in the following chapters of the book.

Chapter 2: Working with SharePoint Lists: This chapter introduces one of the core mechanisms for sharing and organizing content in a SharePoint site. You will review what lists are, how they are used, and then explore the various templates that exist in SharePoint.

Chapter 3: Working with SharePoint Libraries: After reviewing some of the fundamental concepts relating to lists, the chapter introduces the other major storage mechanism in SharePoint known as libraries. This chapter discusses some of the various templates that exist for libraries as well as brand-new concepts in 2007, such as slide libraries and wiki page libraries.

Chapter 4: Managing and Customizing Lists and Libraries: SharePoint templates for lists and libraries provide a great starting point for collaboration and information sharing. This chapter introduces how you can extend these base templates to address an organization’s specific requirements for a collaborative site or information management tool.

Chapter 5: Working with Workflow: Workflow is a new feature available in SharePoint Server 2007. This chapter discusses the templates that SharePoint provides for workflow, as well as demonstrates how to create a custom workflow solution using the SharePoint Designer.

Chapter 6: Working with Content Types: Most organizations have information and documents, which often utilize consistent templates, processes and policies each time they are created. Therefore, SharePoint 2007 has introduced the concept of a Content Type to allow an organization to package templates and information to ensure that reusable components are rolled out in the organization to enforce consistency and ease of use. This chapter demonstrates what content types are and explores how they can be used through some hands-on examples.

Chapter 7: Working with Web Parts: Web Parts are an important element in SharePoint because they display information in sites to users. A variety of Web Parts exist in SharePoint 2007 to address the many ways that teams want to present information. This chapter explores the various groups of Web Parts in SharePoint, including examples on how specific types of Web Parts can be configured and used to present information in a desired manner.

Chapter 8: Working with Sites and Workspaces: The fundamental components of any SharePoint environment are the sites and workspaces that it contains. These collaborative work areas contain all the components discussed in previous sections and represent how each of those items come together to provide an effective environment for collaboration, communication, and document management. In this section of the book, topics such as site templates, features, and look and feel are covered.

Chapter 9: User Management, Audiences, and Profiles: Effective management of users is of ultimate importance to any information system. The two primary tiers of effective user management include securing content and personalizing information on the portal. This chapter explains in simple terms how to effectively secure a SharePoint environment at the site level, the list or library level, and down to the unique content items stored on a SharePoint site. In addition, an introduction to personalization is presented to ensure that readers understand how to effectively target information to users in a portal.

Chapter 10: Working with Forms Services: InfoPath is the ideal companion to SharePoint for many business solutions. This chapter introduces readers to creating simple business applications using InfoPath and SharePoint including new features in 2007, such as template parts and browser based forms.

Chapter 11: Working with Excel Services: SharePoint addresses the need that many organizations face for better visibility and accessibility to data that is often stored in Excel spreadsheets or external business applications. This chapter demonstrates how to improve the overall decision making of an organization by providing access to important information by utilizing browser based worksheets, visual indicators of performance information, and building personalized interactive dashboards.

Chapter 12: Working with the Business Data Catalog: The Business Data Catalog is completely new to SharePoint in 2007 and offers a fantastic way to access information stored in other business applications through the SharePoint portal interface and elements. This chapter introduces the concept of the Business Data Catalog, explaining each of the key roles in detail and then focusing on usage scenarios from the perspective of the business analyst and end-user roles.

Chapter 13: Getting Started with Web Content Management: All the functionality previously available in Content Management Server 2002 has been incorporated into the SharePoint platform for 2007. This convergence of technology allows for the creation, review, and publishing of web content from a single environment. This chapter provides an overview of the web content management capabilities of the system including the use of publishing sites and features, the automatic provisioning of multilingual content through variations, and user-interface customization.

Chapter 14: Working with Search: An information system is useful to an organization only if stakeholders can easily access and locate the information it contains. This chapter discusses the search engine capabilities of the SharePoint platform including methods that improve the search experience through the use of custom search scopes, content sources, and best bets.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook contains step-by-step instructions for SharePoint administrators to gain control of their SharePoint environment. The book is designed so that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and read those that interest you in no particular order. If you are a SharePoint Administrator looking for solutions to the many problems faced while managing SharePoint, then this book is for you. It is written for SharePoint administrators who are either already working on SharePoint, or have recently started working and eager to learn more about SharePoint administration. You need to have some basic knowledge of SharePoint in order to follow the recipes in this book.

Microsoft SharePoint Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation provides an in-depth examination of the tasks involved in planning, designing and deploying SharePoint in your enterprise. The book examines SharePoint from the user's perspective, the administrator's perspective, and the application developer's perspective and looks at how you can maximize your investment by integrating SharePoint features with Office 2003 and other enterprise applications in your environment. The authors are experienced consultants that have helped many large corporations deploy Microsoft technologies within their enterprise. This book is filled with practical experience and knowledge gained from working with customers in the field.
* Complete guide to getting the most out of your SharePoint deployments
* Critical techniques for system architects to design and deploy SharePoint Technologies
* Features most important issues for day to day efficient management and usage
* How to customize and extend your SharePoint environment for your own needs

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