Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions eBook Download

If you need a thorough introduction as to what SharePoint Portal Server has to offer to your organization or clients, I'd recommend you pick up a copy of this book.

 Lamont Harrington, Lamont Harrington's Blog

Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions provides you with all the information you need to design and deploy business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. He provides programming instruction, guidance, and examples for custom Web parts and solutions built on SharePoint technologies.

Focused on getting you started quickly with SharePoint products and technologies, each chapter provides hands-on exercises that emphasize basic ideas or demonstrate simple features.

Developers seeking to use this book to learn more about building Web Parts for Sharepoint should steer clear. It may be an inadequately documented field, but this book does not contribute positively towards it.


Sharepoint Webpart solutions for developers
"Microsoft Sharepoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions" by Scott Hiller is a introductory book on Sharepoint technology for developers

Starting 4 chapters are on Introducing Sharepoint Portal server, Installation and on content creation (nothing for developer there).

This book contains good amount of sample code for the web parts development, and 2 Solution Accelerators chapters. If you have knowledge of .NET development and want to understand web part development, web part chapters of this book along with the Microsoft Sharepoint SDK might be good place to start.

As Hillier discusses, SharePoint is another unifying glue over MS Office and SQL Server.

But SharePoint does something else for Microsoft, which the book doesn't seem to discuss. SharePoint gives that appliance competition.


Not bad for a beginner SPS book
Here ares ome of the bugs i had encountered with this book

Missing hardware configuration on chapter 2 to start the 1.excersises in the book
2.Some steps on installing and running web parts past security poorly stated. Could not get the accelerartors to work on chapter 11


This book is a very good introduction to SPS and the reader does learn alot on the subject.

Computer science students, get this computer ebook by download itMicrosoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 Solutions from Rapidshare/Megaupload/Hotfile for free.