Mark Gerow Apress, Paperback, Published July 2008, 512 pages, ISBN 1430209615
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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…

Who is this book for?

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.

About the Author

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.

Sep 26, 2008     Brian LaSitis from Pittsburgh, PA
Great content, however lives true to being a "recipe" book
Having worked with SharePoint technologies since their introduction as SharePoint Portal Server 2001, I was pleased to see that the topics covered in this book, SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes by Mark E. Gerow, were fairly good ones. The topics highlighted the object model concepts involving sites, lists and document libraries, security web parts, and custom event handlers.

This book brought together some of the most commonly used SharePoint object model techniques that are used when building customizations, ranging from site provisioning and setting up users and groups to creating custom web parts and manipulating lists. The coverage of using list event handlers was the high point of the content, as this is not something that is well-documented elsewhere. The text was also full of code samples. A reader that is fairly new to using the SharePoint object model may find these code samples difficult to adapt into their own solutions, however, as very little explanation was provided around the main classes or method calls that are solving the problem at hand. However, for a single developer or small team that has some experience with SharePoint through the documentation provided by Microsoft, this text provides a nice collection of additional code samples and ideas that offer another perspective on the available customization paths for SharePoint.

True to its title, this book is a recipe book. The text was very light on the theory behind the code, how the pieces fit together, and how the overall solution worked. In fact, most of the coding recipes presented were introduced around a specific problem, with the code to address that problem following. There was little explanation of why some of the logic was required, which would make it difficult some someone less familiar with SharePoint to take these recipes and adapt them to their own unique situation.

The examples presented were very thorough, with the source code presented in both VB.net and C#. While this provided for some very comprehensive examples, the entire source code was included in both languages, rather than the code for just the concept being illustrated. This made the text unnecessarily long, and cumbersome to read. Even though the code contained little white space, to keep the book from being too lengthy, it did so at the expense of readability.

The business logic for each code sample was presented through a flow chart diagram, which is a somewhat outdated manner of documenting process flow. A simple narrative and/or bulleted-list of points included with each example, to highlight what the code is doing would have been sufficient, based on the nature of the code samples presented. Having the flow charts in this context only provided a poor example for novice developers to potentially follow and use in documenting their own solutions.

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