Pro SharePoint Solution Development

Ed Hild's first job after college was as a math and computer science teacher at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. After upgrading the curriculum, he decided to practice what he was teaching and moved into consulting. Ed soon felt the teaching itch again, and took a position teaching MCSD and MCSE courses for a technical education center as well as developing the software that would run the franchise. Ed gained most of his development experience at his next position as director of technology at e.magination, a Microsoft partner in Baltimore. There, he worked for several years building web applications for a wide variety of customers using Microsoft technologies. He was then lured to Microsoft and now works as the collaboration technology architect in the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, Virginia.

From the reviews: "In this book, the development path for solutions, based on Microsoft's Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and InfoPath, is discussed and illustrated. This book is intended to be a comprehensive guide to using the Microsoft Office platform ... and is written for software developers. ... The book is well written. It establishes a learning path for developers, and provides an overview of issues, concepts, and techniques ... ." (Anoop Malaviya, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2008)

• Office Business Applications.- SharePoint Products and Technologies: Overview and New Features.- Microsoft Office 2007 Overview for Developers.- Visual Studio Tools for Office Overview.- Microsoft Excel Solutions.- Maintaining Offline List Content from Multiple Sites.- Integrating Spreadsheets into the Enterprise.- Microsoft Word Solutions.- Merging SharePoint List Data into Word Documents.- Working Collaboratively with Document Fragments.- Microsoft PowerPoint Solutions.- Extending PowerPoint to Build a Presentation Based on Site Content.- Building a Presentation Server-Side within a Web Part.- Microsoft Outlook Solutions.- Working with Email Messages and SharePoint.- Surfacing Data from Line-of-Business Applications.- Microsoft InfoPath Solutions.- Taking InfoPath Forms to the Web.- Incorporating Workflow into forms Processing.- Conclusion.- Realizing the Vision.