Windischman W.W., Phillips B., Rehmani A. Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Publisher: Wrox Press Publication: 2009, English ISBN: 9780470287613 Pages: 552With Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can master all aspects of using Share Point Designer in an Enterprise environment to enhance Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Review key integration points, how to use CSS editing tools to create and modify SharePoint themes, how to supplement SharePoint Designer functionality by using Microsoft Visual Studio, and how to create a rich interactive experience. If you need to connect SharePoint with other enterprise resources or create components to integrate into the SharePoint framework, this book will show you how to accomplish these tasks.Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a versatile application that provides all the necessary tools to modify nearly every aspect of a SharePoint web site's look and feel. Yet, SharePoint Designer can do far more than just customize SharePoint sites and this book shows you how to maximize the potential of this fully featured web design tool.Packed with step-by-step examples, sample code, and helpful screen shots, this resource begins with an overview of SharePoint Designer and SharePoint technology and then quickly moves on to teach you how to use SharePoint Designer to customize various aspects of your sites. The team of experienced authors demonstrates how SharePoint Designer is able to create powerful applications that would have normally required considerable programming effort, and they take you past the built-in features of SharePoint Designer with extensions, add-ins, migration, and conversion tools. With this book, you'll be able to perfectly match a SharePoint site to an enterprise's standards, connect SharePoint with other enterprise resources, or create something entirely new.What you will learn from this book
Ways to create extensions to SharePoint and SharePoint Designer, with examples in both C# and Visual Basic .NET
Techniques for customizing lists, libraries, and more
How to maximize your use of SharePoint Site Components
The anatomy of SharePoint master pages and themes
Methods for working with CSS editing tools in SharePoint Designer
How to use Visual Studio and other tools to extend the capabilities of SharePoint and SharePoint Designer
Things to consider when building SharePoint Designer workflows
Considerations for governing the use of SharePoint Designer in your enterpriseWho this book is forThis book is for web designers and developers who are looking to modify or enhance SharePoint products and technologies or anyone upgrading from Microsoft FrontPage to SharePoint Designer. A basic knowledge of JavaScript and HTML tags is assumed.
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About the Author
Woodrow (Woody) Windischman is a technology trainer and consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles, allowing him to see problems holistically and come up with appropriate solutions. His SharePoint experience started even before SharePoint became a product, with predecessors such as Site Server, the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, and the earliest versions of Microsoft FrontPage. Since then Woody ’ s been deeply involved in the SharePoint community — first having been awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP from October 2005 through September 2007, and then working directly for the SharePoint product team. He ’ s active in several online SharePoint communities, including the TechNet forums.
Bryan Phillips is a software architect and senior partner with Composable Systems, LLC, specializing in service - oriented business solutions using the latest Microsoft technology. Bryan has worked professionally with Microsoft development technology since 1997 and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certifications. Bryan contributes regularly to the Microsoft development community by speaking on topics such as Smart Client, ASP.NET, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Mobile development; presenting DevCares courses; and blogging on topics of interest to developers. Bryan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Client Application Development.
Asif Rehmani has been a Trainer and a Consultant working out of the Chicago office of SharePoint Solutions (http://sharepointsolutions.com/chicago) since early
He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT.