Learning SharePoint

Topic Overview

Resources for SharePoint Architects/Developer/Consultants/Engineers that need structured material to learn more about the SharePoint platform. This material can be for people new to the platform or looking to dive deeper in a facet of SharePoint Development and Integration.

Suggested Labels

• learning - General resources for ramping up or honing your SharePoint technical skills.
• freetraining - Training for people with lightweight budgets.
• books - Books that are useful for understanding SharePoint Technologies.
• videos - Videos that are useful for understanding SharePoint Technologies.

Tools

Recommended by ThreeWill:

• U2U Caml Query Builder - http://www.u2u.info/SharePoint/U2U%20Community%20Tools/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• Stramit - http://www.codeplex.com/SPCamlViewer
• SharePoint Spy - http://www.echotechnology.com/products/spy/Pages/default.aspx

Interesting, but not yet tested/verified by ThreeWill:

• SharePoint Manager 2007 - http://www.codeplex.com/spm
• SharePoint Debug Visualizers - http://www.codeplex.com/SPDV
• Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer provides the IT Admin a tool which will quickly discover the configuration of a SharePoint installation.
• The SharePoint Search Service Tool is a rich web service client that allows a developer to explore the scopes and managed properties of a given SharePoint Search SSP, build queries in either Keyword or SQL Syntax, submit those queries and examine the raw web service results.

Books

End User or Power User

• SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform
  • Great for learning out of box features on SharePoint
• wikipatterns by Stewart Mader

Administrator

• Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion - a must have for SharePoint Administrators.

Developer

• Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Pattison/Larson

  ABSOLUTE MUST READ!!! All SharePoint developers at ThreeWill have read this book (Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) and it is a required read for new developers.

• Inside Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem
• Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications" by Steve Fox, et.al.
• Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System by David Mann
• InfoPath
  • Pro InfoPath 2007 by Philo Janus
  • Designing Forms for MS Infopath and Forms Services 2007 - ISBN 978-0-321-41059-7
• Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, Lars Fastrup
• Ian Morrish's List of SharePoint Books
• SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog - From the guys that broadcast on SharePoint Podshow
• Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer)- I particularly like the chapter from Andrew Connell on "Developing Publishing Site the Smart and Structured Way"

See Also

• A list of available SharePoint books - http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/sharepoint%20books.aspx

Blogs

• Implementing SharePoint
• Andrew Connell is a prominent MVP that has deep expertise in Web Content Management in SharePoint - http://andrewconnell.com/blog/Default.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/default.aspx
• http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/default.aspx
• http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/default.aspx
• http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/default.aspx
• http://www.mannsoftware.com/Blog/
• Official blog of the SharePoint Product Group - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx
  • Check out the latest additions made by ThreeWill
• On Kirk Evans Blog (Microsoft Industry Architect), he has a list of free SharePoint Developer resources - http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2009/02/17/free-sharepoint-developer-resources.aspx

Downloads

TODO Need to move these to bookmarks... any volunteers? Remember to label as "downloads"

• WSS3 Workflow Tools - http://www.codeplex.com/wss3workflow
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (download from MSDN)
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (download from MSDN)

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