Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies have become increasingly
popular as a collaboration solution for organizations. A large reason
for this is the seamless integration of its features into the Office
desktop tools. However, many developers have yet to take advantage of
this platform and the power it holds to solve problems in the workplace.
Our book will take a practical problem/solution approach to common
business challenges. The goal is not just to provide the reader with
some interesting code samples, but for them to see the Microsoft
collaboration platform as a set of services and our examples as patterns
in how they can be combined. The book's solutions will focus on using
Visual Studio Tools for Office to build the user interface layer. The
exciting thing about extending the Office desktop tools is that business
users already know how to use them. This will increase user adoption and
even quicken development time. The book's solutions will interact with
SharePoint as a service provider taking advantage of its many
collaboration features including document repositories, collaboration
sites, and search.