good rescources on Sharepoint development
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Hi. I'm new to the Sharepoint portal server 2003 (or any other sharepoint for that matter) and I need to get to know how to develop stuff for it. I've messed around a bit with building webparts and now I want to know how to make custom lists. However i'm having trouble finding any good rescources on the subject. Is there anyone here that can point me to some good forums/guides/tutorials/SDK's/etc. ? p.s. I have been through MSDN and I don't seem to be able to find anything other than developing webparts there.
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Hi. I'm new to the Sharepoint portal server 2003 (or any other sharepoint for that matter) and I need to get to know how to develop stuff for it. I've messed around a bit with building webparts and now I want to know how to make custom lists. However i'm having trouble finding any good rescources on the subject. Is there anyone here that can point me to some good forums/guides/tutorials/SDK's/etc. ? p.s. I have been through MSDN and I don't seem to be able to find anything other than developing webparts there.
troels_sorensen wrote: I have been through MSDN and I don't seem to be able to find anything other than developing webparts there. And you won't...yet. There will be better
WebPartsupport in .NET Framework 2.0 to be released in the beginning of 2005 (SQL Server "Yukon" is holding it up). We've been working with it here and some associates upstairs in our complex use it as the base for their product as well. We all contend that the documentation - for what little there is - sucks for SharePoint. For one, when you install SharePoint Services on your Windows Server 2003 box, you have to manually copy the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll assembly to your development box. Some SDK, huh? Examining that with ildasm.exe that comes with the .NET Framework SDK is definitely handy, or use a good decompiler like .NET Reflector[^]. You should also check out http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/[^]. It's not the greatest, but it does have examples. Finally, get yourself a copy of FrontPage 2003. Now, I'm not big on WYSIWYG editors, but FP 2003 is a vast improvement - event for HTML editing capabilities - over previous versions. It also specifically targets SPS with a lot of great support. It's well worth it, IMO.Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
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troels_sorensen wrote: I have been through MSDN and I don't seem to be able to find anything other than developing webparts there. And you won't...yet. There will be better
WebPartsupport in .NET Framework 2.0 to be released in the beginning of 2005 (SQL Server "Yukon" is holding it up). We've been working with it here and some associates upstairs in our complex use it as the base for their product as well. We all contend that the documentation - for what little there is - sucks for SharePoint. For one, when you install SharePoint Services on your Windows Server 2003 box, you have to manually copy the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll assembly to your development box. Some SDK, huh? Examining that with ildasm.exe that comes with the .NET Framework SDK is definitely handy, or use a good decompiler like .NET Reflector[^]. You should also check out http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/[^]. It's not the greatest, but it does have examples. Finally, get yourself a copy of FrontPage 2003. Now, I'm not big on WYSIWYG editors, but FP 2003 is a vast improvement - event for HTML editing capabilities - over previous versions. It also specifically targets SPS with a lot of great support. It's well worth it, IMO.Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
Yeah... documentation.... guess I'll just have to guess then, since microsoft wants it that way. Looking forward to the new version! Thanks for the link.