Inside Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0

This is a great book for beginners who are looking to ramp up on Sharepoint technologies and specifically WSS 3.0. Please note that this book is for developers and will not guide you through WSS administration options. So if you are looking for administration guide, look somewhere else. This book tells you about the WSS architecture, how it integrates with asp.net, features, how to deploy a feature, how to modify site templates and so on. I bought this book to prepare for the 70-542 certification for WSS 3.0 developer and this book saw me through.

In what I think of as my "pre-Pattison" era I was beating my head against SharePoint. The projects I'd inherited seemed unmanageable and deployment was a nightmare. For the project I was going to be starting from scratch, I was frantically coming up with excuses to not use SharePoint, although there was external pressure to use it. Ted's book explains the key difference between SharePoint customization and SharePoint development, and focuses on best practices for the later. After reading it, I had a game plan for future development using SharePoint and also for bringing my two legacy apps under control.

I love everything about this book when it comes to WSS. It is well written, follows a great path and has a whole lot of information. The only down side its it is hard to tell by looking at the book that this is a developers book. This is not for admins but for developers. 100% development and offers nothing to admins.Admins go here Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 So unless you know all the MS Press color schemes, stay away unless you are a developer,

Few books focus just on the core foundation of SharePoint, WSS v3. In this book, Ted and Dan did a fantastic job of covering all the bases necessary. Even though I've been in the SharePoint world for years, and the betas for this current version for over 1.5 years, I was amazed how much stuff I picked up that I wasn't aware of. This is THE DEFINITITE GUIDE TO WSS v3 FOR DEVELOPERS! It should be on ~everyone~ desk if you're doing SharePoint development.

The SharePoint book that I have been waiting for the most has finally arrived. Back when I first heard that Ted Pattision and Daniel Larson were teaming up to write a SharePoint book, I got pretty excited. I knew these guys would have a knock-out book for SharePoint developers, and I'm happy to say I was right. 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 Do yourself a huge favor, and spend five minutes ordering yourself a copy. It will save you hours down the road.