SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes offers a range of ready–to–use code recipes that provide the building blocks for solving many common SharePoint 2007 programming dilemmas. This practical, hands–on guide categorizes recipes by problem area, for example site management, event handlers, users, lists, and web parts, and source code is provided in both VB and C#. As well as providing an invaluable reference, Mark Gerow also includes clear, supporting guidelines to help you modify the code samples for the broadest range of applications.

For each recipe you will find

• Background and design considerations
• Source code in both VB and C#
• Discussion of variations on the provided examples
• Cross–reference to core SharePoint classes

If you find yourself asking, “How do I solve this SharePoint development problem?” you will find all the answers in Mark Gerow’s supremely useful book.

What you’ll learn

SharePoint Recipes will provide ready–to–use examples of how to programmatically

• Add web parts to pages.
• Calculate exact storage used for a list, site, or group of sites.
• Track and record site, page, and link hits.
• Manage users, roles, and groups using both Windows and Forms–based authentication.
• Create sites and site collections.
• Create lists and a document library.
• Upload and edit documents and list items.
• Develop event handlers and workflows.
• Use JavaScript to alter the behavior of web part pages.
• Edit built–in web site properties.
• Work with features and solutions.
• And much more…

This book is for intermediate–to–advanced .NET programmers who want to get the most out of SharePoint 2007 by using the classes and web services provided in the SDK. It can be used both as a tutorial for those new to SharePoint programming and as a reference by those more experience developers who just need working examples that can be modified to suit a job at hand.

“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.

Mark Gerow has more than 20 years of experience in IT, professional services, and software product development, and has provided consulting to hundreds of companies throughout the San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. He currently works for Fenwick & West, LLP, where he is responsible for defining and implementing the firm’s intranet and extranet strategies using SharePoint technologies.

Mark holds a bachelor of arts degree with majors in computer and information sciences and economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He is also a Project Management Professional certified by the Project Management Institute.

Mark lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area.