Advanced Web Parts Development Topics

Having .NET development experience will definitely give you a head start in your quest to develop custom solutions for WSS 3.0. SharePoint development requires mastering several development techniques centered around WSS 3.0. They are covered in the next section.

Building Connected Web Parts

Collaboration is one of the key drivers behind WSS 3.0. How can we apply this to Web Parts and make them programmatically speak or communicate with one another? WSS 3.0 enables us to do this by using an interface. Two options are available: define our own interfaces or use the standard WSS interfaces.

Defining Our Own Interface

When we define our own interface, we begin by deciding which will be the provider Web Part, which ...

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