Articles | Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

This article and related video illustrate how to create a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 workflow.

See how Microsoft developed 40 Application Templates, identifying best practices for working with core capabilities within Windows SharePoint Services.

Learn how to apply general programming techniques (such as caching and threading) to the SharePoint platform.

Learn ways to write your code so that you can avoid retaining the objects in memory with the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Use this checklist to assist with the deployment and maintenance of SharePoint Web Parts.

Learn about building, deploying, and debugging custom timer jobs, and examine the various configuration options that are available to developers.

Create an advanced custom field using built-in search dialogs in SharePoint to your advantage.

Use the Web Part project template to develop, deploy, and test your ASP.NET Web Parts for Windows SharePoint Services.

Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows Workflow Foundation.

Get insight into the skills you need to develop for Windows SharePoint Services, and the differences from traditional ASP.NET development.

Explore solutions, solution architecture, and techniques for creating, deploying, maintaining, and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services solutions.

Explore how the membership and role provider architecture operates in SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Explore how to configure the LDAP Providers in SharePoint Server 2007, how to automate provider assignment and provider registration, and how to configure Web Single Sign On with Active Directory Federation Services.

Explore the extensible solution platform of SharePoint Products and Technologies and opportunities for its use in .NET development.

Rafael Perez shows you easy ways to validate page requests and user permissions.

Learn to migrate items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that are selected by using specific criteria and custom logic.

Learn how you can create and use customized and uncustomized files to meet the scalability and high demands of dynamic customization.

Learn about the structure and relationships of the high-level classes in the Microsoft.SharePoint and Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration namespaces.

Parse the log files that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 produces when logging is enabled to effectively analyze the usage event data.

Learn how the solution framework helps to simplify the process of deploying and managing the life cycle of a SharePoint solution.

Support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles.

Learn how to test the performance of workflow applications and determine how to apply the results.

Explore the advantages of creating ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and hosting them by using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Learn about important changes to Excel 2007 that allow more powerful analysis of Windows SharePoint Services lists.