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A team of SharePoint authorities addresses the six most essential areas of SharePoint 2010

SharePoint enables Web sites to host shared workspaces and is a leading solution for Enterprise Content Management. This book serves as one-stop shopping for concise coverage on six key areas that you need to know in order to get up and running with SharePoint 2010 quickly. After an introduction to the new features of SharePoint 2010, the author team of SharePoint experts walk you through branding and customization, workflow, business connectivity services, social networking and tools, the search function, and development basics so you can get started using SharePoint immediately.

• SharePoint 2010 offers numerous exciting new features, including advancements in user interface customization, development improvements, the benefits of Business Connectivity Services, and much more
• Covers the primary functions of SharePoint, as well as enhancements and new features of the latest version
• Reviews the SharePoint platform, branding and customization, workflow, business connectivity services, social networking, tools, development basics, and more

SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One helps you conquer the six key areas of SharePoint 2010 so that you can successfully take advantage of the Microsoft SharePoint platform.

Essential guide to developing and deploying high-profile reports in SharePoint

Build customized reports quickly and efficiently with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for SharePoint sites and this unique guide. Developers, you'll learn report development and deployment; SharePoint or SQL Server Reporting Services administrators, you'll see how to leverage SharePoint to use SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode.

This valuable book walks users through the entire process: planning, developing, and deploying reports. You'll discover techniques, tricks, and workarounds that allow you to produce great-looking charts and reports for your SharePoint sites.

• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is the customizable reporting solution for any developer using VB, C#, or ASP.NET who ties into SQL Server to build reports or generate data analysis; SharePoint is Microsoft's portal development platform and is central to the Microsoft Office and developer platform
• This book from an expert author team of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 developers covers not only topics relevant to developers, it also goes into the specific nuances of using these reports in a SharePoint environments, such as what to consider when setting up SSRS to run specifically in SharePoint integration mode with WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007
• Topics include introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services, setting up SQL Server Reporting Services for SharePoint 2007, planning your report project, an overview of Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS) 2008, intermediate and advanced reporting techniques, deploying to SharePoint 2007, displaying reports, and more

Discover new, efficient ways to leverage your core investment in SharePoint 2007 with this one-of-a-kind guide.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

This book is a focused tutorial that shows you how to create enterprise-ready websites and applications that access Microsoft SharePoint Server on Windows Phone 7. This book focuses on SharePoint 2010; however, some of the concepts and explanations will also apply to SharePoint 2007. If you are a .NET developer who wants to create enterprise-ready websites and applications that access SharePoint Server on Windows Phone 7, then this book is for you. You should have a basic knowledge of Windows 7 Phone and SharePoint Server. This book also assumes some knowledge of C#, managed code in general, and a basic level of familiarity with Visual Studio.

Welcome to the essential SharePoint 2010 guide for getting started with taxonomies, tags, and content types in SharePoint 2010. The SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook (First Edition) summarizes our field guides and best practices for planning, installing, customizing and using the Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint. Based on real world examples for how a Microsoft Partner trains its field consultants and works with clients, you will: - get a hands on review of the new tools for managing taxonomies, folksonomies, tags and content types - see how to define a central hierarchy of document tags and groups to share across the enterprise - learn about end user tags and trends ("folksonomy") - get Tips and Tricks on how to prepare your organization to use MMS effectively from day one

Get started with SharePoint Designer to put together a business site with SharePoint. This book is ideal for people new to SharePoint Designer who need to put together a working SharePoint site as quickly as possible. No experience of SharePoint Designer is expected, and no skill with creating SharePoint sites is assumed.

“SharePoint Recipes” is a practical, hands-on guide that provides the reader with prepackaged, ready to go building blocks and code samples for many common SharePoint 2007 programming dilemmas. Recipes are categorized by problem area for easy reference and source code is provided in both VB and C# so readers experienced in either language will benefit.

There are a wide variety of “how to” books on SharePoint, many of which rehash documentation found elsewhere, some improving on it. “SharePoint Recipes” is unique in providing a set of discrete, working solutions that intermediate-to-advanced .NET developers can use and modify to meet common real-world SharePoint programming problems.

There are no recipe-like titles for SharePoint on the market, but we expect as deployment of SharePoint 2007 continues the sales of this title will be significant.

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Table of Contents:
*) Small Building Blocks
*) Ensuring Quality Code
*) Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010
*) Starting Your Own User Group
*) ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine
*) Creating Self-Scaling Applications with Azure Services
*) Using the Amazon Web Service SDK for .NET
*) Handling Business-Related Date Tasks in T-SQL
*) Post Mortem - Office 2010 the Movie
*) Developing Database Agnostic Applications with Entity Framework
*) Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib
*) A Practical Use of Indexers
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Managed Coder: The Beetle in the Box
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This book is for developers looking to combine the latest advances in Windows and Microsoft development, like .NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, InfoPath, and Biztalk, with their SharePoint sites. SharePoint is hot and mixing the intersection of one hot tech with other hot techs is sure to be a hit. This is the only book on the market dedicated to using other products and technologies with SharePoint.

SharePoint for Nonprofits provides a tour of SharePoint capabilities and delivers specific guidance for nonprofits, associations, charities, or any .org - large or small. SharePoint is a single comprehensive platform capable of supporting public-facing websites, social networking, private communities, collaborative environments, business intelligence, and even custom applications. While it may be the same version of SharePoint used by businesses and government agencies the world over, nonprofits and associations use SharePoint differently. SharePoint for Nonprofits delivers a comprehensive roadmap for delivering SharePoint solutions to staff, members, donors, and volunteers. This book is for association and nonprofit professionals and consultants. Prescriptive guidance and best practices are provided for executives, directors, information workers, management teams, business users and technical staff responsible for evaluating and implementing SharePoint.