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I started reading this book as soon as I got it into my hands and here are few things that are really exceptional in this book.
Outline(s):
#1 This is written as a story – so, you don’t get bored at all; also will keep you reading cover-cover.
#2 Every chapter in its position and situation is perfectly laid out; you will never miss a link if you are reading from the begging
#3 Each chapter is again written independently with enough examples; you will mostly not require referring to other chapters and can read pin point to what you need
#4 This is not one of the thick, bound large books that would scare you! It’s been grouped into 12 chapters; Short and Sweet (I liked the way chapters 6 and 7 are split into 2 parts)
#5 Readability is perfect! No big paragraphs and bullet points where ever necessary; makes reading easy.
Technical Abilities:
#1 No doubt with his expertise on SharePoint, Sahil did an excellent job in this book
#2 Book takes you through Installation, Setup etc. – so for novice readers with no prior knowledge of the technology it’s easy to setup your own environment
#3 Basic’s – Again if you have a fresh face for SharePoint – don’t worry!
#4 Scenario’s, Opinions and for more information links – If you want more, then you know where to go
#5 No penny less – penny more; you get exactly what and how much you need from the technical content.
#6 Simple examples; you can extend them based on it.
#7 Reading Key at the beginning of the chapters identifies the reader and provides suggestions
#8 Usage of latest language syntax where ever needed; – developers will definitely gain from this.
Overall, this book is properly consolidated for all kinds of audience and it’s been a wonderful experience reading the book. My 5 star rating and a must read book on SharePoint 2010!
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m only a few chapters in, but I just had to post something. This book is an extremely pleasant change to the usual SharePoint books that I own. In fact, it reads sort of like a clear and concise story. The author presents the material in a systematic and thorough way that doesn’t overwhelm or put the reader to sleep, with a little humor mixed in now and then. Differences between SharePoint versions are pointed out right away and that’s very useful for someone like me, who has been developing extensively for 2007. Following the precise instructions, I was able too get my development environment up and running without a hitch. I highly recommend this one. Reading on…
Rating: 5 / 5
I was lucky to receive one of the first copies of this book that were given to attendees of Sahil Malik’s advanced 5 days SharePoint course in June 2010 in Oslo. The course was based on the book’s content, and we spent the whole week going through the book’s chapters and applying what we just learned to various labs that Sahil prepared for us. I must say when it comes to SharePoint Sahil knows absolutely everything. He has a strong advantage of being an author of other books on advanced .NET topics, so he presents SharePoint as a complex .NET product rather than just content management of Web site provisioning system. And SharePoint is really hard to present right. Those familiar with Microsoft Foundation Classes know how ackward it is to look at some methods inherited their names from the era of 16 bit development. Backward compatibility never improves product’s elegance. The same it true for SharePoint: it’s full of legacy heritage, it’s built around Web forms that are also considered by many developers to be a legacy technology. You should memorize that classes SPSite and SPWeb refer to site collection and site respectively, and today they would have been named differently.
However, Sahil Malik managed to show a clear view of SharePoint architecture and present best practices of building applications with it. Moreover, being a master of whole spectrum of .NET platfrom, he shows brilliant examples of using SharePoint together with other technologies: Silvelight, WCF, REST, Office etc. I was completely new to SharePoint development, but after one week of book study and lab excercises I was confident to manage various SP tasks: from configuring a SharePoint server to building business intelligence solutions.
Of course having Sahil as a course trainer helped a lot: whenever we got stuck with labs, he came and resolved our troubles within just a few minutes, and he often could give a reason for our problem even without looking at the screen. But the content of his current course is the content of this book, so if you read it slowly and care about details (it is very densed, there is a lot of content there), you should be able to build a good understanding of SharePoint architecture and its development practices.
One thing I wish the book had: more focus on TDD and continuous integration. For a person like me, who spends most of his time with raw code and no content, the question of configuring SharePoint development environment to be able to cover the code with unit and integration tests is a crucial one. With content management and site provisioning systems this is not easy. I suggest you look at products like Typemock Isolator that have support for SharePoint unit testing. And as I said I wish there was a chapter in the book dedicated to testing challenges. Anyway, the absence of such chapter does not make the book weaker, the book is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to master SharePoint 2010.
Rating: 5 / 5
Sahil is an outstanding author for many reasons. I have all his books and attended lot of sessions and that make me believe so.
One thing which is great about any Technology book author is examples/scenario’s he/she provide and thats the reason I feel this books is a must have. All the examples are very close to some common business requirement and thats why it’s so easy to understand them. On top of it author has mixed good humor to the book to make you smile in between. I will highly recommend the book anyone who want to know SharePoint 2010 capabilities without getting lost in 1000s of online blog posts.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book seems to have it all: detailed knowledge of SharePoint 2010 and how it relates to MOSS 2007 as well as .NET programming, step-by-step instructions that actually work, a humourous conversational tone that engages the readers, practical advice from start to finish — for example in Chapter 1, the author recommends that to avoid being considered as a terrorist while you are in-flight – you should not using Hyper-V on your laptop while you are traveling, as it does not do sleep-mode well and this creates a challenge when you must “turn off all devices”. The book also offers lots of great tips on Sandboxed solutions and details on WebParts and communications between same, SharePoint Data, including a chapter on Business Connectivity Services and its ease of use compared with MOSS BDC. A great foundation for Business Intelligence and Security are also included. As many of us will be working on MOSS to SP2010 solutions in the coming years, this book is a gem!
Rating: 5 / 5