SharePoint® 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions

Introduction

The latest releases of Office and SharePoint, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, along with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, provide a great deal of new functionality for application developers to build upon for their applications. At the same time, enterprise developers and independent software vendors are trying to reconcile the traditional approaches for developing in the enterprise with the Web 2.0 movement, which consists of many lightweight applications, loose aggregations of data and services, and mashups developed by users of the applications with little or no code.

The demand for agile application development based on standard frameworks is strong among both enterprise IT and their business users. This book aims to identify some of the key solutions and scenarios that can be supported with Office and SharePoint 2007. While the book is targeted at developers, equal weight is given to solutions that can be developed or configured with little or no code, providing a faster time to market for new applications and business solutions.

Who This Book Is For

The audience for this book includes software developers focused on enterprise IT scenarios involving Office and SharePoint, ISVs looking to integrate their software with Office and SharePoint 2007, and developers of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software interested in the capabilities of the Microsoft ECM platform.

Those familiar with the new versions of Office and SharePoint will ...