As the title says, I'd like to know if there's a good book about using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 API from an external .NET web application?
I mean.. assuming that it's possible to do that without deploying the application to the SharePoint server..? Or I can do that if I have to, but I just want to use certain SharePoint features like the document handling.
It would be really great if someone could help me with this! Thanks!
/Ylva D
I am not sure about a book. When programatically accessing SharePoint from an application residing outside of the SP space you need to use the SharePoint Web Services. Just google "sharepoint web services" and you should find a million useful hits.
Developer's Guide to the Windows Sharepoint Services V3 Platform - Todd Bleeker knows his stuff.
In order to use the SharePoint object model you have to be running your code on a server in the desired SharePoint farm. This is because the SharePoint object model is not remoteable. If you need to run on an external computer than the SharePoint web services are your best hope without implementing your own remoteable layer.