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Groove 2007 for developers


Looking for SharePoint Workspace 2010? The Groove Web Services SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides documentation and guidance for the Groove Web Services APIs.


What is Groove 2007
Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program teams can use to share information and work together on project activities—from simple document collaboration to custom solutions integrated with business processes. Teams using Groove 2007 work inside collaborative workspaces, which put all team members, tools, and information in one place. Groove workspaces keep teams up to date automatically and efficiently, and enable them to work anywhere, anytime, and with anyone—even people outside their organization so they spend less time coordinating and more time working.

How does Groove 2007 work?
Groove includes both a client application and server components. Learn about the Groove architecture by watching these videos or reading this technical whitepaper.

How is Groove 2007 deployed?
The server components of Groove 2007 can be deployed onsite at your organization or are available as a hosted service from Microsoft.

Essential resources

SharePoint Workspace 2010

Groove 2007

Visual How-to Videos

Visual how-to content combines a short video, sample code, a conceptual overview, and links to related resources in a single user experience.

Coding Groove Web Services Applications with the Groove 2007 SDK, Part 1

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Coding Groove Web Services Applications with the Groove 2007 SDK, Part 2

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Customizing the Groove Forms Tool to Create Simple Status Reports

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Articles

Best Practices: Archiving Workspaces Using Groove Data Bridge

Review the recommended best practices for configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and programming against the Groove Data Bridge 2007.

Best Practices: Integrating Data Using Groove Data Bridge

Learn to use the Groove Data Bridge as a data integration point between Groove 2007 workspaces and line of business applications.

Best Practices: Working with Forms Tools Scripts in Groove 2007

Review best practices for developing forms-based applications in Groove 2007.

Collaborate: Help Teams Work Together with Web Services and Groove 2007 (MSDN Magazine)

Learn how a custom .NET Framework application can be used to connect the data to a corporate database.

Optimizing Groove Forms Tool Performance

Use the Groove 2007 Forms Tool and the InfoPath 2007 Forms Tool and understand how your design decisions affect performance.

Preparing InfoPath Templates to Use in Groove 2007

Use an InfoPath 2007 sample template as the basis for a Groove InfoPath Forms tool, adding your own customization.

Using Forms Solutions in Groove 2007
Using Web Services Helpers to Access Data in Groove 2007

Reduce code complexity when accessing Groove 2007 data by creating or using custom wrappers.

Using Web Services Helpers to Access Events in Groove 2007

Simplify coding when developing Groove Web services applications that handle events.