Eli points us to two very exciting SharePoint webcasts in the short future:
January 25, 2005 - SPS 2.0: Developing Sharepoint Solutions Without WebParts
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Description:
Many people are actively developing Sharepoint solutions using the expected WebPartPage/WebPart paradigm. This is indeed a powerful model to be working with. However, it is not the only one that you can use. In fact, the Sharepoint technologies are split between back-end technologies (security, storage, searching...) and front-end technologies (templates, webparts...). As such, it is very possible to leverage the back-end technologies using other front-end technologies such as WinForms, Console Applications and WebForms. In this session, we’ll outline why you might want to do this and we’ll provide a truckload of code samples and demos.
February 24, 2005 - Leveraging the Power of Custom Search and Ranking
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Description:
In this level 400 presentation, we’ll go extremely “deep” on authoring applications that utilize Sharepoint’s powerful search capabilities. We’ll provide lots of information about how to author search queries, how to execute search queries and how to leverage the “ranking” capability of the search index. We’ll also include a bunch of demos and some sample code.