Cheapest Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

First of all, this book is not for an entry-level SharePoint developers. Its more targeted towards the Senior SharePoint Developers or SharePoint Architects. With saying that, it is very important for the entry level SharePoint developers to understands the basics but I agree with other reviewers, prior experience with MOSS 2007 would definately help reading this book. If you are looking for step by step details, look for another books (Steve Fox's Beggining SharePoint 2010 Development and Shahil Malik's excellent SharePoint 2010 Development Book) out there.

Second of all, any books written by Reza Alirezaei is must for any SharePoint Architect. He is an excellent writer, teacher, and wonderful person to reach out to if you stuck on anything he has written.

I been working with SharePoint 2010 since pre-public beta (when it was called Office 14) and reading this book, not only reaffirm the basics but explains some of very complex subjects - Search, InfoPath Forms, Workflow, and BI. I have gone through each word of the Electronic Forms and Workflow chapter written by Reza and I would simply buy this book for those chapters. Workflow chapter will take you through the brilliant workflow development lifecylcle from Visio 2010 to SPD 2010 to VS 2010. Electronic forms chapter will show two flavors of the forms - List Forms and InfoPath Form Templates. BI Chapter will take you through the step by step guide to build the BI Center using the Excel Services, SSRS, and Performance Point Servies Integration.

Apart from these content specific chapters, first four chapters written by Tom is must for any developers who has worked with SharePoint 2007. It describes what's new in SharePoint 2010, IT Pro Enhancements, and Developer Enhancements. Chapter 4 is real gem. If you ever want to know the internals of some of the UI features like master pages, themes, ribbon, status bar, dialog boxes then you must read this chapter. Believe me, as a SharePoint developer, one of the first thing you would do is customize these components.

SharePoint is a huge subject and no one book would work as a complete reference. Use this book for more decision making and high level architectural reference along with other entry level books. Hope this helps.Get more detail about Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer).