Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible [Paperback]

Vikram Kartik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0470386444 | ISBN-13: 978-0470386446 | Edition: 1

SharePoint Designer allows you to design your own collaborative systems and processes across your enterprises inside the SharePoint platform. This in-depth Bible takes you from the basics through advanced features of SharePoint Designer, from application development to ongoing management after the systems are in place. Written by a SharePoint Designer expert, this guide makes Designer accessible for newcomers but is also full of insight, tips, and techniques for veterans who want to improve their system designs and increase productivity.

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Master SharePoint Designer with these information-packed pages

As SharePoint Server allows better Web-based collaboration, SharePoint Designer now gives developers better tools to design the many Web pages and sites necessary to support that widespread collaboration. With pages of step-by-step instructions from a Microsoft engineer, this essential guide shows you how to build effective, dynamic Web pages for the SharePoint Server platform, from the basics to advanced authoring and publishing. Topics include DHTML, the role of FrontPage legacy components, using ASP.NET controls, and much more.

• Work with SharePoint and non-SharePoint data sources, the Data Form Web Part, and Web part connections

• Use ASP.NET 2.0 to provide Web controls for many of the common Web site operations

• Design style sheets, master pages, and page layouts

• Create hit counters, forms, and Web site search capabilities

• Master remote authoring technologies, including FrontPage® RPC and SOAP

• Design and troubleshoot declarative SharePoint workflows

• Manage and publish SharePoint and non-SharePoint Web sites

• Understand client-server communication protocols and technologies

About the Author

Vikram Kartik has been heavily engaged in providing support to Microsoft customers and partners by using FrontPage and SharePoint technologies through the Microsoft product support organization for the past six years. He began in FrontPage product support and now works as a support escalation engineer in the SharePoint escalation services at Microsoft.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470386444
• ISBN-13: 978-0470386446
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #706,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately not helpful - just demonstrative, August 2, 2009

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F. Bello - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible (Paperback)

The content of the book attracted me to buy it. Unfortunately I was frustrated with the lack of explanation on almost every topic I was trying to research.

It is a 'demonstrative' book, not a learning one. they show you 'how to' click here and there and in which sequence to do what. Well, I could have figure out that myself by just going through the screens. But I could not find a single topic where they will explain how things glue together, how to apply a specific feature in different scenarios or ways, or how illustrate the extent of the power of any given feature.

I personally was specificaly interested on how the multiple data bound controls & sources work and found the text very useless.

Went into a couple more topics, like workflow implementation and customizing lists and found the same pattern.

I'll reccomend save the money on this one. I found Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) a much better book (to my surprise) as I generally have found multi-author books to be very bad. Bought both together, I'm keeping the wrox one and I'm re-selling this one here.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, April 10, 2009

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John S. (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible (Paperback)

Sadly, this book tries to be all things to all people and fails at most. I suspect this is not the fault of the author but rather the publisher who probably dictated the content of the book. The book suffers from a lack of good examples and only a few sparse exercises. It has, however, mastered the art of giving high level statements with very little actual information.

If you are interested in learning the ins and outs of manipulating your SharePoint sites, master pages, templates etc. this book offers very little. Seeing as how that is what people actually want SP Designer to do, this is too bad.

About a quarter of the book is dedicated to work flows. There are at least three other books solely devoted to work flows. Someone running a Microsoft focus group must have took a note "people are interested in work flows" and boom - over kill! These are just not that complicated.

On the flips side, another quarter of the book focuses on hooking into data sources (provided they are on your site). No mention of the fact that the most powerful aspect - the external data linking - BDC-requires the enterprise license which is not standard and costs extra. The attempt to deal with data connections gets bogged down pretty quickly in jargon and assumptions that you have been working with data connections in the past. If you are veteran of hooking up DBs on websites, this section may be helpful.

Finally, the book also attempts to give a lip service for those poor fools who might attempt to use SP Designer for regular sites. Yikes! Don't bother. There are much better tools for that. You won't learn much from this book as it attempts to give you an html primer but falls flat on its face. Get a real book for that.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The real bible for SharePoint Designer, July 2, 2009

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Vignesh (OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible (Paperback)

Learning about SharePoint Designer is complicated. Especially because in order to be successful you need to first know about lot more than just SharePoint Designer. Fortunately, the SPD bible comes to the rescue.

If you are new to SPD, this is the book for you. The author assumes nothing about your understanding of SPD or SharePoint. It seems like great pain has been taken to make you comfortable with the products that SPD depends on without loosing context.

Particularly, I liked the parts of the book that discuss about the Web Controls, Data forms and Workflows. This book is deep in these areas. By far, the best book if you want to learn about building workflows using SPD. No other book actually even tries to talk about them in this detail in one place.

The book does over do some areas for the sake of completeness. I mean most people are smart enough to figure out how to insert pictures or iframes on web pages, but these are still discussed.

Overall, this is a great effort to create an overall manual for the SPD.