SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

This book offers ready-to-use code recipes that provide building blocks for solving many common SharePoint 2007 programming dilemmas. Each recipe includes background material and notes on design considerations, a list of key libraries, classes, and web services that the recipe relies on, process flow diagrams, a narrative description of the steps, source code in both VB and C#, and discussion of variations. Recipes are categorized by problem area, such as site management, event handling, users, lists, and web parts. Readers are assumed to know how to create the basic .NET project types: console, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET web service. Gerow is director of an application development team. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mark Gerow has more than 20 years of experience in IT, professional services, and software product development, and has provided consulting to hundreds of companies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California. He currently works for Fenwick & West, LLP, where he is responsible for defining and implementing the firm's intranet and extranet strategies using SharePoint technologies. Mark holds a bachelor of arts degree with majors in computer and information sciences and economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's in business administration from Santa Clara University. He is also a project management professional, certified by the Project Management Institute. Mark lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.