SharePoint is obviously a hot technology. But the last year in
development technology has seen such major technology releases as Ajax,
ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, and more. These technologies combined have
an audience too wide to describe. However, SharePoint 2003 was built
before these new techniques and methodologies were ready for public
consumption. And while the newer versions of SharePoint support
development using these new techniques, the installed base of SharePoint
2003 is growing as we speak, and migration to SharePoint 2007 is still
at least 18 months off. As such, developers are hungry to "webify" their
existing SharePoint sites and applications. This book is the
intersection between contemporary development techniques and SharePoint
application development.