Windows SharePoint Services Resource Guide

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This is a simple walkthrough of coding a WebPart.  Note that this was tested against Beta 2 of SharePoint 2007

This article is an excerpt from 7 Microsoft® Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint® Server 2007http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9471.aspx, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735622760, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved).

Summary: Explore Windows SharePoint Services solutions, solution architecture, and techniques for creating, deploying, maintaining, and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services solutions. This article is part 2 of 2. (26 printed pages)

by Patrick Tisseghem

A good basic overview on Content Types.

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 is a great resource if you are skinning a site and need to know which stylesheet classes impact different parts of the page.

Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007.

Note: This is part 1 of 20.

This is an excellent reference for walking through the creation of a MOSS Virtual PC image.  There is a sceenshot and description for each step.

SharePoint Tips and Tricks (from Scott Hillier).

This link contains additional links to some new free features from Scott Hillier.

Chapter 3 covers Building a Basic SharePoint Site.

Chapter 4 covers Organizing Lists and Documents with Site Columns and Content Types.

This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers. This book is meant for solution architects, industry architects, or senior developers who are designing, developing, and deploying composite applications. (97 total printed pages)

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)

This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs using composition at the presentation, business-logic, and data layers. This book is meant for solution architects, industry architects, or senior developers who are designing, developing, and deploying composite applications.

AppDev is offering over an hour's worth of free training material on SharePoint 2007.

The download will install the first module of the material – in that module, we cover an overview of SharePoint 2007, discuss Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and give an introduction to some of the advanced topics including creating web parts, workflow, and working with various SharePoint API's.

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 whitepaper presents information on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as it applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).

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.

This example steps you through the process of creating a custom action Feature that adds a button to the toolbar of the form for editing announcements items within the scope of a SharePoint site.

Tutorials And Samples for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

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.

The 2007 Office system is designed to increase individual impact, simplify collaboration, streamline business processes and content management, and improve business insight. Assess yourself on the new 2007 Microsoft Office system. The table that follows provides information about the individual assessments that are currently available. New assessments will be added, so check back regularly. After you find the assessment that's right for you, register to take the assessment.

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

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

(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.

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.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK contains conceptual overviews, “How Do I…?” programming tasks, developer tools, code samples, references, and an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) starter kit to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

This SDK was last updated on 8/22/2007.

This is a great utility for capturing screen shots to help produce PowerPoint walkthroughs/demos.  You can configure the utility to take a snapshot of the desktop (or specific area of the screen) based on a designated time interval (every 1 second or less often, say every 5 minutes).

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.