SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Introduction

Welcome to SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach! What you're about to read is the result of an idea thread that's been rolling around in my head for several years—the need for a practical guide that empowers and enables developers to leverage the full potential of SharePoint in the enterprise.

Note

Thanks to Microsoft, just about every book on SharePoint 2007 starts out with a note defining the term. That's because SharePoint can refer to two distinct but closely related products. The first, Windows SharePoint Services (or WSS) is a part of the Windows 2003 operating system (although it must be downloaded and installed separately). WSS, which is free of charge, provides all the core services that you expect, ...