AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books

Now that we’ve got a bunch of books on the market and SharePoint 2010 has been out for a while, I think it’s time for another post like my SharePoint 2007 one that picked my favorite SharePoint 2010 books. I’ve had a chance to review all the books below, even though two aren’t published yet. These are my favorites for SharePoint 2010.

Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell & Scot Hillier
Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs by SharePoint MVPs
Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Paul Stubbs, Larry Rieman & Jacob Sanford
Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 by Scot Hiller & Brad Stevenson
Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 by Asif Rehmani, Woody Windischman, Bryan Phillips & Marcy Keller
Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration by Shane Young, Todd Klindt & Steve Caravajal

Disclaimers: I did contribute content to Real World SharePoint 2010 & Inside SharePoint 2010. I have also had a chance to review most to all of the chapters in both Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 both due out early next year.

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posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010 5:44 PM

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# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/12/2010 9:54 PM Nik Patel

At this moment, my personal favorite is Sahil Malik's SharePoint 2010 development. And, I am eagarly waiting for your Inside SharePoint 2010 book. Hopefully its in the same line as Inside WSS 3.0 taking you much deeper..

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/13/2010 12:50 PM Matt Connolly

I'm not sure this published correctly, I don't see any books.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/14/2010 7:32 AM Richard Willis

The books display in Internet Explorer but not Firefox.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/14/2010 3:11 PM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Richard - Sounds like you found the solution :) They are IFRAMES in a table... that's how Amazon generates the links.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/15/2010 6:46 AM Sandeep

I agree Nik , Sahil's book is my personal favorite too. I loved the way he explained all new concepts of SP2010. The biggest advantage I felt with his book was its timing , it came in April when everybody was excited to know more about SP2010. Its almost an yr and there is flood of books...

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/15/2010 11:02 AM Thiago Silva

don't see any books on Chrome either...your post cuts off right after the disclaimer, and the main middle well of the page is pushed up under the left nav of the site.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/15/2010 12:55 PM AC [MVP SharePoint]

OK, I removed the Amazon IFRAMEs and replaced with links.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/15/2010 1:07 PM Brian K Seitz

Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 not released yet to Amazon.

Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design I though was excellent

Essential SharePoint 2010 I though was a keeper also

I like wrox beginning administration more than professional but both were very good

Just started Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/22/2010 1:07 PM Chris

How do you put the name of a book "Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010" in your fav damn book when it's not even published?!!!

Like many other things you (and you parter Mr. big old far) do , I can smell the sense of favoritism (and rasicsm)! Do you dare to publish this comment too? or you only publish the comments from your ass kissers?

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/22/2010 8:53 PM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Brian - You're right, the BCS book isn't available for sale, but I have had a chance to read it as a reviewer during the authoring process.

@Chris - How about you try reading the whole post, specifically the very obvious disclaimer I added. How can I say they are great? Because I've already read and reviewed both books even though they haven't been printed yet. Just because you haven't read them doesn't dismiss what others may have seen.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/22/2010 10:24 PM Nk Patel

Are you working on the updated version of your MOSS 2007 WCM development book? I simply loved that book and even though most of content would apply to SP 2010, would love to see the SP 2010 version of the WCM book..

Nik

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/23/2010 12:28 PM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@NK - Thanks for the great comments on the book. I don't plan on writing a 2010 version for a few reasons. First of all, the only thing that changed really are the dev tools. Everything else, nothing is new so I'll be posting more tips to my blog in 2011 instead of writing another version. Another reason: I'm burned out on writing books... rather work on shorter and more focused articles.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/29/2010 10:15 AM Nik Patel

AC.. lol @I'm burned out on writing books.. I thought you were relentless machine.. So looking forward to your SP2010 Inside Book... ;)

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 12/29/2010 1:26 PM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Nik - Ha... I like writing, but books are just a PITA. It's a VERY long project, the compensation is horrible compared to your day-to-day work (unless you look at the marketing) and it's frustrating dealing with tech editors who want you to word things differently. I'd rather work on papers for MSDN (which I've been doing) and articles in magazines where my voice isn't changed.

# re: AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books 3/6/2012 10:35 AM JEL

Hi could anyone please recommend a few SharePoint 2010 /2007 books for non-IT, web designer, dev types (who have to do conceptionization of site, design workflows and may have to take the place of the techies types to create web pages, libraries, lists, etc., with forms. Okay, I know that's asking for much, but let me be more precise: could anyone suggest an order of books to read from basic (non-IT type) to more proficient levels (still written for non-developer types) to develop the skills to do what I previously described?

Thanks!

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