This intensive 5-day Webcast explores design and development techniques used when building business solutions with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS). The very first lecture and lab exercise gets you started developing WSS features and programming against the WSS object model. The course then dives into deep developer topics such as creating page templates, provision pages and branding sites using Master Pages. You get hands on experience writing and testing Web Parts, Content Types, event handlers, custom workflows, site definitions and solution packages. Along the way, you will also learn how to write WSS event handlers that read, modify and generate Office 2007 documents using the Office Open XML File Formats as well as how to program security to manage users, groups and permissions on sites, lists and document libraries.

Attendees should have professional development experience with Visual Studio 2005, 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.