Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Web Applications The Complete Reference

Acknowledgments

Before embarking on this book, I did some research to get an idea of what was involved in such a project. Almost without exception, people told me that the amount of effort required to write a book is always much more than originally anticipated.

As a working systems architect and software developer, I often spend much of my time writing technical documents, and, like many of those who have gone before me, I arrived at the conclusion that writing a book is pretty much like that. The only difference is the length of the document. Logical, don’t you think? If only it was that simple!

SharePoint is a huge product, and part of my motivation in writing this book was to enjoy an opportunity to develop a broader knowledge of the platform. ...