Saturday, February 07, 2004

Programming Microsoft InfoPath - A Developers Guide

For those of you who know I have been patiently and diligently working on a new book for Programming Microsoft InfoPath. The book was really something that I feel pretty passionate about. Working with developers with and on projects every day enables me to see a variety of different aspects - everything from architecture considerations to pure heads down coding. No doubt I am pretty exposed to the entire spectrum of development. I approached this book with exactly that in mind.

The book is designed to present how to develop both with InfoPath and how it fits into your architecture. I made sure that I covered not only the heads down aspects but also, the architecture design patterns. This includes the many different aspects of things to consider -everything from BizTalk Server 2004 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003. I think these are all important development aspects for all to understand. I am really happy to say that the writing process has wound down and the editing process is coming to a close. I am supposed to receive the final proofs this week, cut the final CD and then it’s off to the printer. I understand from the publisher that the book is due out the third week of March.

Writing a book is an interesting and time consuming process. It definitely takes patience and time. So I have to say that I am glad it is almost over. The book is available for order from both Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


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Exploring WSS

I have been doing a lot of work with customers around Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) recently. I am really impressed with the features and power that is available within this free add-in for Windows Server 2003. The best part is that is that it is totally an ASP.NET application. It provides document management, forms management, portal pages and a lot of other stuff. I was a little surprised at some of the documentation. I know the product is new and there is literally new content coming out everyday around it. So, I wanted to stat documenting some of the things that I found interesting about it as a developer. With that I have published by my first installment of Exploring WSS – What Can I do with a Web.Config?

 

Let me know what you think
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