Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development

Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development Book Description

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) also features in the book. SPS 2003 enables enterprises to deploy an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently.

You've mastered the basics of MCMS, and setup your own MCMS installation. You've only scratched the surface. This book is your gateway to squeezing every penny from your investment in MCMS and SPS, and making these two applications work together to provide an outstanding richness of content delivery and easy maintainability.

As a developer, the Publishing API (PAPI) is at the heart of your work with MCMS, and this book starts by taking you on the most detailed tour of the PAPI you will find anywhere. As a live example, a component that reveals the structure of your MCMS site is created, taking you through how to manage the common elements of MCMS programmatically.

Getting SharePoint and MCMS to work together is the next stop in the book. You will see how to use SharePoint's search engine to search MCMS content, publish content between the two systems, and create SharePoint Web Parts to draw content from MCMS.

To ease your everyday work with MCMS, there are chapters on placeholder validation, and some useful custom placeholders for common MCMS tasks, such as a date-time picker, a placeholder for multiple attachments, and a DataGrid placeholder among others.

There are a number of ways to consume MCMS content from the outside world, and we look at two exciting ways here; RSS and InfoPath/Web Services. The InfoPath solution provides another interface to MCMS content that allows content authors to concentrate on content and not the presentation.

The book is rounded off with a number of must-have MCMS tips and tricks. Revert a posting to a previous version
Change a posting's template

Build a recycle bin

Deal with links to deleted resources

Update a posting's properties directly from a template file

Re-write ugly URLs to friendly URLs

Export resource gallery items using the site deployment API (SDAPI)

Configure the position and size of the Web Author Console Dialogs

Get frames and IFrames to work correctly in a template file
Who this book is written for
This book is written for developers who want to the skills to fully exploit the power of MCMS and SPS. The book presumes a working knowledge of MCMS, the .NET Framework and familiarity with the C# language. All the code examples are in C#.

About the Authors
Lim Mei Ying is a senior consultant with Avanade and has experience in setting up MCMS systems at the enterprise level. She has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of the product and enjoys finding new ways to solve MCMS related problems. She contributes actively to the newsgroup community, and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore.

Stefan Gossner works for Microsoft as an Escalation Engineer in the Developer Support department. He provides customers with technical solutions to problems related to Microsoft Internet Server Products. Stefan has breadth and depth in all areas of MCMS. His contributions to the newsgroup have helped many people to implement MCMS solutions in corporations around the globe to the point where it has been said that if you don't know Stefan, then you're probably new to MCMS.

Andrew Connell has worked with content management solutions since obtaining his degree from the University of Florida. As one of the original developers for the most successful versions of AdmiNET, a custom web content administration product, he has consistently focused on the challenges facing businesses today to maintain a current site without having to rely on technical expertise. Andrew's background is in content management solutions and web development using Microsoft technologies. He enjoys working with MCMS and integrating it with other products such as Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Angus Logan is a Product Specialist at Data#3 Limited (www.data3.com.au), Australia's leading IT solutions company and awarded Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Angus is a MCAD.NET & MCDBA and Microsoft MVP for Content Management Server and specialises in Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server, .NET development, SQL Server, and CRM. You can usually find Angus in the microsoft.* newsgroups or blogging (www.anguslogan.com).

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