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Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
EAN num: 9780470224755
ISBN number: 0470224754
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
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Page Count: 425
Printing Date: June 23, 2008
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This book is for SharePoint developers working with Publishing sites—sites that leverage MOSS 2007 WCM capabilities. It does not cover administrative topics in any great detail, only where absolutely necessary. For the most part, no two chapters are dependent upon each other, so each chapter can be used as a reference independently of the others. Readers need not have any development experience with SharePoint, but they should have some experience with and a working knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0 development practices and topics. Of course, it is beneficial if the reader does have at least a working knowledge of what SharePoint is all about.
This book covers MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing sites. You will find some chapters that seem to cover general WSS 3.0 topics, but everything is treated in the context of a Publishing site. While the chapters are arranged in a logical order, it is not necessary to read the book from cover to cover in a linear fashion. The following is a brief description of each chapter:
Chapter 1, “Embarking on Web Content Management Projects”—This chapter explains what this book is all about, who the target audience is, and who will benefit most from the book. It also details what the reader needs in terms of a local development environment in order to implement the solutions. In addition, each of the subsequent chapters is explained very briefly to provide an overview and clarify how each chapter fits in.
Chapter 2, “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Primer”—This chapter covers the fundamentals of WSS, including definitions of terms such as farm, Web application, site collection, site, list, and document library, and the general architecture of WSS. Some basic object model techniques are demonstrated in this chapter.
Chapter 3, “Overview of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Web Content Management”—This chapter briefly explains each of the various components that make up MOSS. In addition ,while the book is development-focused, the “ABCs” of content-centric Internet sites is covered.
Chapter 4, “SharePoint Features and the Solution Framework”—Both new to WSS 3.0, the SharePoint Feature and solution frameworks are covered in great detail in this chapter, as well as a process for automatically creating WSS solution packages on every project build.
Chapter 5, “Minimal Publishing Site Definition”—Many users create new WCM sites by using the Publishing Portal template. Unfortunately, this adds quite a bit of unnecessary content to the site. This chapter picks apart the Publishing Portal template and Publishing Features and demonstrates how to create a minimal Publishing Portal template.
Chapter 6, “Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists”—Three core components to every WSS 3.0 site—site columns, content types, and lists—are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 7, “Master Pages and Page Layouts”—This chapter covers everything you need to know about creating, editing, and leveraging master pages and page layouts within Publishing sites.
Chapter 8, “Navigation”—While WSS 3.0’s navigation is founded on the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation provider framework, there are a few SharePoint-specific topics, which are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 9, “Accessibility”—If it’s not already, accessibility is becoming an increasingly important topic with regard to Web sites. This chapter explains the different levels of accessibility and discusses some techniques and tools developers can leverage to create sites for users with disabilities.
Chapter 10, “Field Types and Field Controls”—Although it’s a WSS 3.0 concept, field types and field controls are covered in this chapter in the context of a Publishing site. This includes creating custom field types with custom values types and controls, as well as custom field controls that leverage existing field types.
Chapter 11, “Web Parts”—This chapter covers creating custom Web Parts and some advanced topics related to custom Web Part development, such as Editor Parts, customizing the Verbs menu, and leveraging asynchronous programming techniques. This chapter also covers the three Publishing-specific Web Parts and some advanced customization and styling options of the Content Query Web Part.
Chapter 12, “Leveraging Workflow”—The Windows Workflow Foundation, part of the .NET Framework 3.0, is fully leveraged by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. This chapter explains how to create custom workflows using Visual Studio and leveraging InfoPath Web-rendered forms.
Chapter 13, “Search”—Every content-centric site needs a robust search offering. This chapter explains the different components of MOSS search, as well as many customization opportunities such as modifying the search results.
Chapter 14, “Authoring Experience Extensibility”—While the authoring experience in Publishing sites is quite robust, at times developers need to extend this offering for specific content owner requirements. This chapter covers this, including customizing the Page Editing Toolbar and the Rich Text Editor HTML field control.
Chapter 15, “Authentication and Authorization”—This chapter covers everything you need to know about the ASP.NET 2.0 authentication provider model SharePoint fully leverages.
Chapter 16, “Implementing Sites with Multiple Languages and Devices”—This chapter covers the topic of maintaining sites that need to offer their content in multiple languages, as well as developing custom Web Parts that are multilingual aware.
Chapter 17, “Content Deployment”—A common request for larger content-centric Web sites is to have an internal authoring environment for content and then push the changed content out to a destination site, either in an organization’s DMZ or at a co-location facility. This chapter describes the content deployment capability in MOSS designed to handle such business requirements.
Chapter 18, “Offline Authoring with Document Converters”—While MOSS 2007 Publishing sites offer a very robust Web-based content authoring experience, SharePoint provides a way to author content offline using tools such as Microsoft Word or InfoPath. This chapter explains what you need to know about configuring the document converter infrastructure and creating custom document converters.
Chapter 19, “Performance Tips, Tricks, and Traps”—Internet-facing content-centric sites built on the SharePoint platform need to be designed and developed with performance in mind. This chapter provides numerous guidelines and tips that developers can leverage to create the most performant sites.
Chapter 20, “Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications”—SharePoint (both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) is not an end-to-end solution but an application platform. While it provides a significant amount of functionality out of the box, developers can leverage this platform in building custom applications. This chapter discusses some techniques that can be used for such tasks.
One approach book takes is not to dwell on the more common minutia of creating projects in Visual Studio, or the huge topics of core Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 development or SharePoint administration. These topics warrant their own books, and throughout this book you will find recommended resources for these topics. This book does cover some subjects that have their roots in WSS, but they are presented within the context of a Publishing site.
Finally, this book approaches every topic of implementation from the perspective of SharePoint customization and SharePoint development. While one implementation may seem to be better than the other, it takes no position on either, as the goal is to simply educate readers about the advantages and disadvantages of each. These concepts are defined in Chapter 2, “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Primer.”
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The book fails to deliver at the 'big picture' level but some of the chapters along the way were very valuable [Chapter 4 was very valuable to me as well as Chapter 6].
Chapter 5 [Minimal Publishing Site] made me both happy and very mad. I was pleased that I understood the mechanics of creating a minimal publishing site but the chapter simply fell apart in the late phases and I was unable to implement the example [note to author => A screenshot of a visual studio project showing the 12 hive does not cut it]
I would like to thank the author for his efforts. MOSS is a difficult topic to write about as it is simply huge in scope. Nothing in Sharepoint comes easy!
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note => I was able to download the visual studio project referenced in chapter 5
The Wrox Site page also contained some valuable chapter 5 corrections [onet.xml]
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This book provides a complete overview of all the various subjects that you can come across in a Web(application) Content Management (WCM) project on the SharePoint 2007 platform. It gives you introduction, background explanation as helpful tips and tricks.
I had the misfortune that this book was not yet published when starting my very first MOSS 2007 WCM projects. However, even then I still learned and profited from reading.
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This is the latest book from Andrew Connell. I have to admit, I got a review copy of this a few weeks back and skimmed through it pretty quickly. Since then, it sat on my desk under a pile of papers (literally, at one point I thought I had lost itcI really need to clean up my desk) waiting for me to get the chance to review it further.
My very first impression upon skimming through it was that, as expected, it is pretty impressive. I do very little work with the publishing and WCM sides of MOSS but I couldn't see anything that was missing from the book that you would need in order to complete a WCM project. Over the last few days, I've gone back in for a deeper read on some of the chapters. My opinion hasn't changed, still impressive. So much so that I think even a dolt like me could do some of this stuff - I'm thinking of even taking a stab at building up a publishing site using the material from the book to help just so I can get some hands-on time with that side of the product.
If you are experienced with SharePoint, but just not the WCM/Publishing side, you'll likely only skim the very first four chapters. I have some background in WCM in general (Vignette, MCMS, a few now-defunct implementations, etc) so I might have skimmed it more than most. The nice thing about this book is that if you do have a background in SharePoint, you can easily skim through the pieces that you know already. I would advise you to not skip them entirely, though, as there are a few pieces that are unique to WCM buried in the rest of the gSharePoint 101 content.
What I was really looking for was the hands-on pieces which begin in chapter 5. Here is where the fun begins. Moving quickly from base topics such as Site Definitions, Content Types, Lists and Master Pages, we move onto some more WCM-focused topics:
Customizing Navigation - comes into play sometimes in non-WCM implementations, but almost ALWAYS in WCM projects
Accessibility - Another big piece of any public facing WCM site. The chapter is short, largely, I think because there isn't much of a story here for SharePoint, unfortunately. It covers the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint, but only through installation and implementation. I wish it went a little further, but perhaps that is something I need to discover for myself...
Field Types and Field Controls - Probably my favorite chapter. This is one of the best extensibility points for SharePoint.
Web Parts - Interesting, I don't typically think of web parts in a WCM site, but I can see that I was wrong. Great coverage of the Content Query Web Part.
Workflow - My favorite topic, a good overview and provides the basics, thanks for the plug for my book, AC.
Search - I need to re-read this chapter and commit to memory. For some reason, I can't get my hands around SharePoint Search. It just doesn't stay in my brain. This is the very first time I've seen a concise coverage of search that still seems to cover everything you need. For me, this will likely be the most useful chapter, if I can manage to remember it all
Authoring Experience - Love the coverage of customizing the Page Editing Toolbar.
Authentication and Authorization - Not specific to WCM sites. A must-read for anyone doing SharePoint.
Multiple-Languages and Devices - Variations, likely the hardest part of getting WCM right. Another must-read.
Content Deployment - critical to doing WCM right. Currently, Content Deployment in MOSS is a bit fragile - this chapter provides great coverage of how to get it working.
Offline Authoring - I have one client who massively overused this feature (implemented before I started there) and is having all kinds of problems. This chapter could have saved them a lot of hassle.
Tips, Tricks & Traps - This chapter alone is worth the cost of the book. Caching, page payloads, performance management, proper disposing, etc. All great stuff.
ASP.Net 2.0 Applications - At very first glance, I thought this chapter was an afterthought, an add-on. It didn't really seem to fit. However, when I looked at it more closely, it definitely fits. These days it is rare to find a company that doesn't already have a significant investment in their website. If they are now implementing MOSS, it is likely that you will need to have MOSS and an ASP.Net website/application coexist for some period of time - perhaps quite lengthy. In addition, your WCM site may require additional application-type functionality outside of what SharePoint offers. This chapter touches upon all of the things you will need to be concerned about. After reading it, I wish this chapter were longer. It is definitely not an "add-on".
So, all-in-all, a worthy addition to your bookshelf for anyone who does SharePoint. If you deal specifically with WCM, what are you waiting for? ... Read More
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I received a copy of Andrew Connell's new Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 book this week. As expected, Andrew's new book is excellent - well written with a ton of substantial content.
What I like about this book:
Chapter 5 dissects SharePoint's out-of-the-box MOSS 2007 Publishing Portal site definition. This chapter then covers how to create a Minimal Publishing Portal site definition which does not include the extraneous artifacts included in the somewhat bloated out-of-the-box version.
I particularly like Chapter 10 on Field Types and Field Controls. Unfortunately, there is little documentation and online resources available about creating custom field types. Andrew's book offers a complete chapter on the subject, with clear explanations and good examples.
Chapter 15 on Authentication and Authorization provides the reader with instructions to configure forms-based authentication for an extranet/internet-facing SharePoint site. Users often have trouble setting up FBA, but this book gives the needed instruction and guidance.
Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a must have for any serious SharePoint developer. I have been developing on the SharePoint platform for almost a decade, and this book will stay within arm's reach of my keyboard. Seriously, buy this book today.
-Tony Bierman [MVP WSS]
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WCM (Web Content Management) is becoming a "hot" item in many MOSS deployments. I should also clarify that this book is focused on WCM as opposed to ECM (Enterprise Content Management), as this seems to be a confusing topic for some. So it is mainly for those looking for working with the publishing infrastructure within MOSS (replacing MCMS - Microsoft Content Management Server), not with the Document Management features (Archiving, Records, etc...). This book is a great reference for those of us who develop against MOSS but who haven't had a chance to work with the WCM features.
I was especially pleased on the sections covering custom fields, field controls and control templates for truly customizing the authoring experience for your content authors. It is hard to find good information on extending the authoring environment and this book gave me enough info to really customize the publishing features of MOSS for my end users and content authors.
While not covering every single possible scenario, this reference provides more than adequate instruction and guidance on using the built in API's to accomplish most tasks. I do not expect a book to spoon feed me everything I need to know about a topic especially if it is to be useful as a general reference. The book does a great job of covering enough of each subject to give you a jump off point to build from on your own projects. As the title states it is in the professional line of WROX books so it expects that you have a good deal of familiarity with MOSS and .Net development. It did a great job of giving instruction without the heavy handed hand holding that some entry level or beginning books tend to lean toward. For those who are not as familiar with SharePoint or .Net I would definitely recommend looking into some introductory training or books very first before jumping in. While I would welcome more coverage on some of the topics, they can always go into additional books or in AC's already extensive list of topics covered in his Blog or workshops.
I give this book 5 stars for giving me more tools as a developer to work with the WCM aspects of MOSS. All of the examples in the book so far that I have used have been fully functional despite the fact that this book was probably written prior to the release of some of the fixes that have been released for MOSS like SP1, etc...
I definitely recommend this to anyone who is a SharePoint developer looking to get into the WCM aspects of the product.
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