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Good SharePoint Designer Book
It's good to see some SharePoint Designer books starting to appear. Even though I use Visual Studio .NET alot, I still use SharePoint Designer for master page development, the Data View Web Part, and simple workflows.
 
I picked up this book and it is especially good at covering the Data View Web Part:
 
 
by Penelope Coventry
SharePoint and Web 2.0 Developer Event

Very late notice, but I am presenting at a great day long event on SharePoint & Web 2.0 technologies next Wednesday (6/11/2008). There will be a day full of great developer topics presented by our internal experts. Not to be missed.

You can attend in person in Redmond, WA or via Live Meeting. We have already expanded capacity once, so this event is likely to fill up:

Register NOW to attend In-person!

Register HERE to attend via Live Meeting!

Agenda

8:00 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast

 

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Introduction to day & Keynote

Mithun Dhar & Ben Hickman

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Whirlwind SharePoint on Visual Studio - VSeWSS

Paul Andrew

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Break

 

10:15 am – 11:15 am

Silverlight on SharePoint

Steve Fox

11:15 am  – 12:15 pm

Web Parts on SharePoint

John Durant

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

 

1:00 pm  – 2:00 pm

Web Services on SharePoint

Paul Stubbs

2:00 pm  – 3:00 pm

Workflow on SharePoint

Eilene Hao

3:00 pm  – 3:15 pm

Break

 

3:15 pm  – 4:15 pm

Event Handlers on SharePoint

Chris Johnson

4:15 pm  – 5:00 pm

Page Branding on SharePoint

Jeff Lin & Westley Hall

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Networking

 
Now Here's a T-Shirt

MyWebPartCan

"My WebPart can beat up your server control." Warms the heart of a SharePoint Developer.

New Resource for SharePoint Developers

We have a new site to help .NET developers get going with SharePoint development:

http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com

The site is organized by SharePoint artifacts that developers can create to extend SharePoint:

  • Web Parts
  • Data Lists
  • Event Handlers
  • Workflows
  • Silverlight Web Parts
  • Page Navigation
  • Page Branding
  • Web Services
  • Content Types
  • User Management

I often talk to IT developers about SharePoint the development platform. The majority of intranet and Internet applications that you pick up ASP.NET to create can be created more quickly in SharePoint. With SharePoint, you can leverage the platform services (Permissions, Authentication, Administration, Site Model, UI, etc.) and focus more directly on your business problem. Also, the SharePoint Feature (as in "capital-F Feature") is possibly the holy grail of reuse. Features can handle from the small (think CSS snippets) to the large (.NET Assemblies, InfoPath forms, etc.), can be turned on and used by end users, and can be installed and managed by administrators. Very, very powerful.

Check it out.