Friday, November 10, 2006

Sharepoint & MOSS 2007 Books

I found lot of useful books some FREE pdf & some by popular publications.

Here is a list, (will try to update it periodically keep checking my blog).

FREE STUFF:

1) Microsoft PDF - 7 Development projects with sharepoint
This one is free but you can only view it, you cannot print it.

Right click and save target as to save to your hard disk,

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/f/02f0f661-88e1-43c2-b523-88d2e9e6802f/7%20Development%20Projects%20with%20the%202007%20Microsoft%20Office%20System%20and%20Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%202007.pdf


Publications:

2) Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Paperback)
by Vanessa L. Williams

Hey dont laugh by looking at for dummies, they do have some great information.



Click here to Buy


3) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion (Pro Resource Kit) (Paperback)
by Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint Community Experts



Click here to buy

4) Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed (Paperback)
by Kevin Hoffman, Robert Foster



Click here to buy


BOOKS from Microsoft Press (wait for few more months to release) Still in the press :)

5) Inside Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Version 3
Author Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson
Pages 560
Disk 1 null
Level Int/Adv
Published 04/04/2007
ISBN 0-7356-2320-1



Click here to see details (still in Press)

6)Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Version 3.0 Inside Out
Author Jim Buyens
Pages 800
Disk 1 Companion CD(s)
Level Int/Adv
Published 03/14/2007
ISBN 0-7356-2323-6



Click here to see details (still in Press will be out by Feb 28 2007)

7) The great step by step book
Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Version 3.0 Step by Step
Author Olga M. Londer, Todd Bleeker, Penelope Coventry and Bill English
Pages 368
Disk 1 Companion CD(s)
Level Beg/Int
Published 02/28/2007
ISBN 0-7356-2363-5



Still in press (will be released by Feb 28 2007)

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Sharepoint Developer Videos

One great thing about microsoft is the amount of resources they spend on developing videos to learn their stuff.

There is a chinese proverb which says a picture can express thousand words, like that all these "How to........" series videos and lots of other how to code how to use sharepoint videos helps the developers.

There are more developer videos which a developer can download and see and learn, they are found at,

1) Videos on KPI, Web Parts,
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006
Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about building smart client and browser-based BI solutions leveraging a wide array of extensible capabilities, including key performance indicators, PivotTables, Web parts, and spreadsheet-based Web services.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=621566FD-A3D8-4628-A2CB-538CC173509F&displaylang=en


2) Videos on How to serieshttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AAFBC288-9F1E-4398-AE06-617CEFEC5823&displaylang=en

3) Videos on Collaboration Tools:
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006
Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about how developers can use the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create powerful collaboration tools.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=029706C1-F20E-4BD1-99BB-78810E16F3D8&displaylang=en

4) Videos on Enterprise Content ManagementMicrosoft Office System Developers Conference 2006
Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about the new, extensible content management
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=562B9B75-55B7-4F5D-AFE4-1F78C8B7FC6D&displaylang=en

5) Videos on Portal Customization
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006
Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about customizing search capabilities, building custom portal interfaces, providing personalized views, and aggregating connections to line-of-business data.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5EC4193A-8061-4FD8-8CA4-574540049FE9&displaylang=en

6) Videos on Business Intelligence

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AAFBC288-9F1E-4398-AE06-617CEFEC5823&displaylang=en

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Blog of Eric Legault - sharepoint / outlook MVP

Eric is an outlook MVP and also is a specialist using Sharepoint 2007 collaborative workspaces and meeting workspaces.

His MVP profile - http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?EricLegault
His personal website - http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca/
His Sharepoint blog - http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/

Dot Net 3.0 Officially released today

Dot Net Framework 3.0 was official released Nov 7 2006 today.

http://www.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/archive/2006/11/06/.NET-Framework-3.0-has-been-released_2100_.aspx