Sharepoint

Excerpt from Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 

By Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs

The first thing you need to do is create a simple Silverlight control. In this case, you will create a very simple control that has a textbox and a button. You could also use one of the controls you created in one of the previous chapters or download one of the samples from http://silverlight.net/. The example uses the most basic control possible so that you can focus on the interactions with SharePoint. In this case, we will not get into the XAML very much but focus on using the visual designers or Visual Studio and Expression Blend to do most of the work.

Excerpt from Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 

by Göran Husman

Search engines are among the greatest time savers. Just look at how often you use MSN Search or Google, just to mention a couple of them. On the Internet, searching is absolutely critical, since you have no idea where information is stored, and there may be new sources one minute from now. That is why you search all the time. This is not really that different from the way you use your internal network. True, the volume of information is much smaller in your network, and you know where at least some of it is stored, since you created it. Still, it does not take much activity within an organization to create so much information that the average user loses track of where things are stored. So, users start looking around to find the file, document or whatever they are looking for. After some minutes, they find it. The question then becomes is this the latest version, or is there a newer version somewhere? Then when they get what they're looking for, they most likely want to be notified if that document gets updated later on. What you need is a solution that helps you:

 Excerpt from Beginning SharePoint Development: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007

by Amanda Murphy and Shane Perran

Most businesses have processes related to specific activities and, typically, the steps of these processes are documented in procedures in a predictable manner. Workflow involves the various tasks that employees must complete on a business activity, and these tasks often occur in a specific order. A workflow could be something completely non-technical, such as washing your car; however, it usually involves some level of interaction with technology mixed with human activity. Workflows in SharePoint generally focus on a specific document or list item. However, it is important to remember that the actual document may be representative of a much larger human-based process such as applying for a job or requesting vacation time.

Excerpt from Professional SharePoint 2007 Development

By John Holliday

The term "Document Management" has become a catch-all phrase for anything having to do with documents in an enterprise setting. It is an overly broad term that covers many different aspects of managing documents; from access control to version control to auditing, review and approval of content. To understand what document management means in the SharePoint environment, it helps to consider the evolution of document management systems over the last decade or so. It also helps to appreciate the value that SharePoint provides as a development platform for document management solutions.