To thank the members of the “Building the SharePoint User Experience” mailing list I will publish an exclusive excerpt from the upcoming book. Everyone gets to have their say in which excerpt will be published, and to help make an informed decision, here is a short description of the alternatives.

1. Working with web parts in a site definition (from chapter 4)

This 3-page excerpt explains how you would add web parts to your site definition using the AllUsersWebPart element. In addition you will be shown how you get the actual web part code from an existing web part so that you can pre-configure settings to be included in the site definition web part.

2. A deep dive into Email-enabled lists (from chapter 7)

If you ever wanted to have an email enabled custom list you should understand how email works with lists. Then you would need to write a single line of code. This excerpt will explain and show you how email enabling works.

3. DelegateControls (from chapter 5)

Modifying appearance and behavior of existing pages can be accomplished using DelegateControls. These controls allow you to put new controls and content into a pre-defined area of a page, such as the search box, various links, or, if you have created your own pages, anywhere you put a DelegateControl control. Learn how in this excerpt.

Now, this is important. I will allow anyone to vote, even people who are not members of the list. However, in order to get the actual excerpt you must be on the list. This is because the password to the page on which the excerpt will be published will only be sent to the list.

So, first, vote on what you want to read. Vote in the left menu. Second, subscribe to the mailing list.  You can do that in the menu to your right.

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SharePoint Magazine has just published the second article in my SharePoint User Experience series. The article is loosely based on a chapter from the upcoming book.

I recommend you take a look at the article; you will find some of the information and much of the writing style from the book. If you like the article you will certainly love the book.

“Customizing the default SharePoint user experience”

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I have been lacking seriously in online activity lately, largely because of the massive amount of work writing the book entails. At times I sit 15 hours a day researching, digging, and writing, all so you will get the best darn SharePoint developer book there is

In any case, I was thinking of petting two dogs with one hand (I hate the ‘killing birds’ proverb’), and since I spend hours with my nose inside other SharePoint books these days I thought I would post some reviews of those books to my blog.

You can check out the first review of Developer’s Guide to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in my blog.

The next book up for review is Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson’s Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Should be posted within a week, so sign up for my feed to get a notification when the review is posted.

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It has been put to my attention that there may be issues with the signup for for the newsletter mailing list. The signup form should be in the menu to the right and I have tested it with IE and Firefox on XP and Windows 2003. However, the signup form uses an external script that may cause problems with some security configurations.

To compensate those who have wisely limited their external script settings I have put up a separate page with the signup form in pure HTML.

The signup page is here.

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