A Taste of "Professional SharePoint Designer"

I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has posted two chapters from "Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007" on MSDN. This is the book I spent the better part of last year writing, along with Asif Rehmani and Bryan Phillips. In the approximately six months since its release, Pro SPD has received excellent reviews, now you can see why for yourselves with the following chapters:

Chapter 11: Advanced Data Access: External Data and More

Chapter 15: Creating Workflow Elements in Visual Studio

These two chapters give you a taste of the breadth and depth you will find in the book, including creating views of complex hierarchical data from Web services, and how to extend the power of SharePoint Designer's workflow capability with custom Actions.

Now that Microsoft has made SharePoint Designer available as a free download, having good documentation available is even more important than ever. I'm sure once you have checked out the samples, you're going to want to buy the rest!