Building the SharePoint User Experience (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) [Paperback]

Bjørn Christoffer Thorsmæhlum Furuknap (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1430218967 | ISBN-13: 978-1430218968 | Publication Date: April 27, 2009 | Edition: 1

SharePoint is an increasingly important enterprise application used by organizations across the world as part of their core infrastructure. Building the SharePoint User Experience provides a comprehensive reference to tailoring the SharePoint User Interface to suit the needs of a reader’s project, increasing their products visual appeal, and professionalism. This is a vital skill for all SharePoint developers.

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About the Author

Bjørn Furuknap is a Senior Solutions Architect, focusing primarily on SharePoint and related collaboration technologies. He has worked in IT since 1993 both as an IT professional and a developer. He is a former teacher at a college level programming school, speaker, and published article author. He holds an MCSE as well as several other titles, including all current SharePoint certifications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430218967
• ISBN-13: 978-1430218968
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #774,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Deep Dive into SharePoint Development, like few others I've found, April 29, 2009

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Trevor Andrew "MS Architect and Developer" (Oak Park, VIC Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building the SharePoint User Experience (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) (Paperback)

I've been developing with SharePoint for around 2 years now, initially mainly in the worfklow area, and now more recently in more content-focussed SharePoint development. One of the things I had noticed about so many SharePoint books is that they seemed, to put it bluntly, derivative. Many seemed to reproduce re-hashes of a single original MSDN based example, and stuck to a very narrow set of stepping stones when covering a particular facet of SharePoint.

Most recently I've been doing Custom Field Type development, and had come across a few sticky issues that I wanted guidance on. Once again, the majority of the articles and book entries on this topic were quite similar, and generally derived directly from the Microsoft SDK. In short they seemed to give little further insight.

After reviewing the sample chapters of this book and its table of contents, it looked like a book that was a bit different to the others I described above. And after reading it thoroughly, my first impressions and expectations have been confirmed, and in many cases exceeded. It steps off the beaten track and answers those "Yes, but what about ..." type questions that seem to be left unanswered in the majority of books. This one takes that next step, and enhances your deep understanding of the topic. His coverage of Custom Field Types and Content Types is particularly good.

In summary, I've found the book to be one of the best genuine deep-dives into SharePoint development I've found, and highly recommend it (I should emphasize despite the title, it is primarily a *developers* book, not a *designers* book). The author states on his blog relating to the book, that his aim was to "Create the best SharePoint book ever". Certainly a lofty aspiration, and I'll be interested in others opinions. I think he's gone pretty close!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for serious SharePoint/MOSS developers, December 12, 2009

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Milos Vukotic - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building the SharePoint User Experience (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) (Paperback)

If you are not developer (or not involved in heavy development), this is not book for you. I thought there is no good SharePoint book out there (as other reviews mentioned). I couldn't find info that this book has in dozens of other books from different SharePoint/MOSS "experts". Glad I found a book that puts together lot of the core info that I had to dig from all kinds of sources.

Book itself is easy read (though you should have some introduction to SharePoint first I guess) and is valuable if read from cover to cover and later as a reference.

It is not ultimate source for the SharePoint (If there was such it would be at least 10K pages long), but will give you good understanding and reference material of core SharePoint stuff that you as a developer have to know or understand if you are serious enough about the work you do.

This book may not be best source for
- Installing/Configuring/Administering SharePoint/MOSS server
- Using SharePoint/MOSS UI and doing stuff through the UI (but may help you)
- Using SharePoint Designer (though may help)
- Explaining all different OOTB SharePoint/MOSS web parts and tweaks
- Explaining all kinds of different features in SharePoint/MOSS (though you would be surprised what tricks it can teach you)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful SharePoint book, August 14, 2009

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J. Capka (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building the SharePoint User Experience (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) (Paperback)

This book is unlike any other SharePoint book I have ever read. It is not a giant bible but an easy to read information packed summary and overview of all the issues that SharePoint developers need to know if they are not happy with their MOSS sites looking like the OOB product. If you ever need to do any sort of User Interface customization in SharePoint, start with this book. The information provided here is also scattered in bits and pieces all over blogs, MSDN articles and who knows where else, so having it in one place is fantastic.