This intensive 5-day course takes developers through the process of building and implementing content-centric websites on the SharePoint platform using the latest release: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). You will learn how to leverage the new concepts in the latest release of SharePoint to build Publishing sites (aka: Web Content Management sites) such as master pages, page layouts, field controls and custom workflows as well as existing SharePoint technologies including custom Web Parts and the provided out-of-the-box Web Parts. Technologies and concepts covered specific to MOSS Publishing sites such as content deployment, support for multilingual sites (variations) and the various types of caching offered to build a well performing site. In addition, an emphasis on using Features and solutions for development is covered throughout this course in addition to using the browser experience and SharePoint Designer 2007.

Attendees should have professional development experience with Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008., the .NET framework and ASP.NET as well as familiarity with Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. It is also recommended (but not required) that attendees have a background with the previous version of Windows SharePoint Services V2 and have experience working directly with XML files in Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.