Windows SharePoint Services Resource Guide

Ted Pattison Video - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 builds upon the Web Part infrastructure that was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0. This tutorial demonstrates how to create an ASP.NET Web Part 2.0 project from scratch and to get it up and running within a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

Ted Pattison Video - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces powerful new integration with ASP.NET Master Pages that makes it easier than ever to customize and brand Windows SharePoint Services sites. This tutorial explains the difference between page templates and page instances and shows you how to customize the Master Page and content pages of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

Ted Pattison Video - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a new innovation named Content Types that allows users and developers to create reusable definitions for an item in a list or a document within a document library. This tutorial demonstrates how to create user-defined content types using inheritance and how to configure a document library to use these content types.

Mike Fitzmaurice gives an overview of the technologies that will release within Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, with an eye toward pointing out areas with specific developer opportunities.

This product guide provides an overview of SharePoint Designer 2007, with an emphasis on new and improved features. It also takes a look at SharePoint Designer 2007 in action, demonstrating its new capabilities. Download this document to learn more about SharePoint Designer 2007.

This blog chronicles many of the behind the scenes decisions, challenges, tips and tricks, learnings, and best practices related to the implementation and ongoing improvements of the SharePoint Community Portal.

A good basic overview on Content Types.

This walkthrough provides the steps for creating a basic custom Web Part that you can add to your Web Part page. It is a simple HelloWorld Web Part demonstrating how to create a Web Part that derives from the ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart class for use in a SharePoint site.

Root reference to Features in the SDK.  Start here to get basics of the why and how of Features in SharePoint 2007.

In Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, either a site definition or a custom site template defines how to instantiate a Web site when an end user creates a site through the user interface (UI). A definition or template determines, for example, the lists, files, Web Parts, Features, or settings with which to provision a new SharePoint site.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides new navigational elements that improve user awareness of the current context within a site or site collection. You can customize navigation through the user interface or programmatically to enhance the experience of users.

The following kinds of customizations in site navigation are possible:

- Custom Navigation and New User Interface Elements
- Customizing Quick Launch and the Top Link Bar Through the User Interface
- How to: Share the Top Link Bar Between Sites
- How to: Customize the Display of Quick Launch
- Adding Links through the Object Model
- Using a Custom Data Source for Navigation

Chapter 1 covers Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Chapter 5 covers Working with Features in Windows SharePoint Services.

Chapter 7 covers Creating Workflows: The Missing Piece of Office Productivity.

Microsoft Office 2007 Release Webcasts.  There is more that WSS in this list, but if you are looking for some starting information this might be handy.

This blog chronicles many of the behind the scenes decisions, challenges, tips and tricks, learnings, and best practices related to the implementation and ongoing improvements of the SharePoint Community Portal.

 this lab, you will use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to design a custom workflow that is triggered on file creation or change. Within the workflow designer, you will use out-of-the-box actions such as assigning a task or sending an e-mail message based on promoted values in your form data. In addition, you will learn how to build a custom workflow using the Windows Workflow Foundation plug-in to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and deploy that workflow to Windows SharePoint Services (version 3). Both exercises demonstrate how workflow functionality can be seamlessly integrated with the 2007 Microsoft® Office release.

Learn about the new and enhanced features in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) such as site creation, site administration, adding Web Parts, the permissions trimmed UI, list settings, navigation, list and library security, notifications, and email integration.

(Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, November CTP)
Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator.

In this 2-hour premium clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Architecture and List Management, Building and Extending Windows SharePoint Sites, and Packaging and Deploying Windows SharePoint services solutions.
Having this knowledge will enable you to determine how to incorporate Windows SharePoint Services into your workspace solution development. Additionally, it will enable you to consider deployment options for your SharePoint solutions.

Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing a help desk or tracking a marketing campaign, to easily create a dedicated Web-based application for a more efficient and effective way of working.

While application templates can be used to solve particular business needs, they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper SharePoint-based solutions. The templates make use of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 capabilities and are compatible with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to help make customization easier.

Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are separated into two groups, site admin templates and server admin templates, providing the right combination of integration with the platform and ease-of-deployment within an organization.

Site admin templates are custom templates that are easy for any SharePoint site administrator to install into the template gallery without requiring server administration access.

Server admin templates were created as site definitions, enabling tighter integration and enhanced functionality within the Windows SharePoint Services platform. They require a server administrator to install.

In this white paper, learn the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, how this technology has been integrated into both Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Office System, and how to benefit from workflows applied to business processes.

Litware is a consultancy company requiring each of their consultants to fill-in daily a timesheet summarizing all of their activities for the day. The timesheet data is stored in a custom SharePoint list for later use. At the end of every week managers must review the timesheets to approve or disapprove the hours submitted. To facilitate the review process, you are responsible for generating one Word 2007 document for the work each consultant has done in each week. For now you will focus on using the data in the timesheet custom SharePoint list to update a data bound Word 2007 document and place it in another SharePoint document library.

Patrick Tisseghem book - "Take a detailed look at SharePoint Server 2007 internals—and master the intricacies of developing intranets, extranets, and Web-based applications. An expert in collaboration technologies takes you deep inside SharePoint Server architecture, delivering task-oriented guidance and extensive code samples to help you build robust enterprise content management solutions."
(This description comes from the referenced site)

Chapter 2 discusses Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).