| This book is about creating client extranets with SharePoint 2003. Although there are many
fine books that expand upon or clarify the material found in the various SharePoint SDKs
published by Microsoft, this book is different. Most SharePoint books focus primarily on
SharePoint administration or end user features, not on SharePoint as a development platform.
Creating Client Extranets with SharePoint 2003 is written to give you exactly what you
need to deploy a secure, reliable, and highly usable extranet as quickly as possible. By reading
this book, you can expect to acquire a wide range of skills that are both necessary to take full
advantage of SharePoint as a development platform, as well as being valuable in their own
right. Specifically, upon completing the book, you will be able to:
• Install and maintain SharePoint in an extranet environment.
• Use the SharePoint object model to create custom components called web parts.
• Create .NET applications that use the SharePoint object model.
• Build a framework to provide full control over content targeting.
• Customize the SharePoint look and feel to present your firm’s brand to your clients.
If you want to create secure websites in which you, your colleagues, clients, vendors, and
partners can share and collaborate on documents and data, you need an extranet. Extranets
provide individuals inside and outside your firm with a secure online meeting place, and
SharePoint provides a robust and highly customizable platform on which you can create your
extranet sites. In this book, you’ll learn how to install and configure Windows SharePoint
Services (WSS) to support secure access over the Internet. You will also learn how to customize
SharePoint at the site and page level through CAML, the template definition language, and
through .NET programming. We’ll cover the creation of administration tools to aid you in
supporting a large number of sites and improvements to user navigation that will make your
end users happier. |
