Professional SharePoint 2007 Development

Provides a good technical overview of the platform as well as overviews of the different development options. This should be your starting point when considering development on the SharePoint platform.

I was given this book by one of the Author (John Holiday) during a training on Enterprise Content Management. I have collected quite a few books on SharePoint most proclaiming to be a developers guide but they have chapters after chapters devoted to configuring WWS 3.0 or MOSS. However, this book gives you a very good start and provides step by step guide on creating various solution. I would recommend this for all beginners and intermediate developers!!!

I always find WROX books are the best value for money. This book is no exception. The details this book provides is atypical and that is what I find very useful. Devil is in the details and we need that for programming. If you are interested in Solutions Development on SharePoint Platform, this book is a very good companion.

Most of the SharePoint books out there focus on the basic features of WSS, including lists, document libraries, views, blogs, wikis, etc. Although these are integral parts of SharePoint, they don't begin to scratch the surface of what it has to offer. This book begins to cover these details. Topics such as building a true development/production environment, designing an enterprise portal application, creating custom field types (not just creating custom columns), creating web parts, building custom features and solutions, and programming through the object model are important to SharePoint developers creating SharePoint content in Visual Studio. This book also takes great aim as documenting that which hasn't been documented yet, especially the XML schemas of features, elements, and solutions. Finally, the book focuses on the enterprise portal features of MOSS, including Excel services, the Business Data Catalog, Enterprise Search, and Document Management. Because this book focuses heavily on development, Content Managers will be better off choosing another book from the many out there for creating lists, customizing master pages, creating style sheets, and other content topics. But for SharePoint portal architects and development programmers, this is your book. There's a wealth of information in this book and deserves to be in your library.

If you need to extend MOSS functionality, or integrate other systems with MOSS, this book will help get you going. The MOSS SDK is a good reference, but doesn't provide much direction. This book fills in those gaps and gives you good, real world examples of MOSS development. Good examples of workflow, and the chapter on BDC was very helpful for us. Highly recommended.