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Know your options for developing with SharePoint 2007

In my opinion WSS3 & MOSS is a very impressive product combination from Microsoft. It can be used in a huge range of environments, from single standalone install for a small business, to supporting a global Internet / Intranet / Extranet strategy in a large scale server farm. The site templates provide basic workable solutions without having to write a line of code. Development can be incremental and the range of tools provided means it can be focused at the core skills of admins, web developers and code developers alike.

The downside is the sheer size and complexity of the product. Make no mistake; good solutions will require specialist skills and knowledge to develop. The large scale solutions need to run on the sort of hardware that is out of reach for most organisations. MOSS is a product that is best developed and hosted by specialist organisations.

Simon Whitear
www.netstore.co.uk

Our IT dept. is beginning to attempt implementing MOSS. However there seem to be few resources that delve deeply into developing with VS.2005 especially creating solutions on developers machines and then moving them on to the Sharepoint server.

There are two white papers that cover this that were posted to MSDN a couple of weeks ago:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/06/21/just-published-development-tools-and-techniques-for-working-with-code-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-parts-1-and-2.aspx

I've been working on SharePoint 2007 since just before Christmas, I've used it with InfoPath, Groove and around February I started using SharePoint Designer too. In the last 8-9 months I have learnt a hell of a lot just from messing around and trying to work out all the new features on SharePoint. I love SharePoint Designer as well it has virtually everything you could need to customise SharePoint, I especially love the Workflow wizard, it makes it so much easier to create a workflow rather than going through Visual Studios.

At the moment I am editing themes and another useful tool I've found in doing this is IE Developer Toolbar, it helps you to see which part of the CSS files you need to edit, and makes your job a whole lot easier too.

Anyway a few good SharePoint Blogs I've used are

http://www.graphicalwonder.com/

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/default.aspx (this is now at http://www.helloitsliam.com/default.aspx but all the old posts can be found on the first site)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/default.aspx

There are loads more out there but these are a few of the ones I've liked the most.

hi

i am about to develop a job portal as well as Alumni portal for a Educational institute,can you suggest me some idea,how can i proceed?
Any kind of help will be welcomed