Professional SharePoint 2013 Development

I highly recommend this book. My development team is in the process of upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, and I've had several lingering questions leading up through the process. This book covers a wealth of topics, ranging from architecture, to the programming models, to the tools and lifecycle management, and much, much more. This book has completely helped answer those questions, and more. I would easily say it's not defined for only a certain demographic of experience. Also, I would recommend this book to anyone without reservation, to anyone using SharePoint 2013, just for the overall depth of knowledge in this book provides, especially in the perspective of development and wealth of information.

Professional SharePoint 2013 Development is well written and comparatively well-organised. The authors have a clear and valuable discussion of the different development tools and when to use which tool. But the book could be polished: I don' understand why the app model in chapter 3 is discussed again in chapter 4. Also the general discussion about JSOM is first in chapter 17. It is much better to have general information and discussion in one chapter at the beginning. Chapter 12 about ECM is my main interest. The authors discuss that keeping track of documents is one of the main issues at companies; then follows a rather thin chapter of little help. Why do all SharePoint books write so little about how to set up an ECM to handle formal documents correctly with SharePoint 2013? The book has a lot of administrative information although it is not comprehensive. Professional SharePoint 2013 Development is still a readable book and well worth the cost and it will save you many hours. I haven't found the real good SharePoint book yet.

Really enjoyable and informative read - time and money well spent

Good starting point but not without frame of reference - you can't pick this up and learn app development.

The first few chapters are a great intro to all the Architecture details of the platform. It's not very detailed in any specific topic but if you're looking for an overview of all the capabilities this is a great starting point

Great book as well as price! Fast Delivery as well. Item exactly as described.

great book

Good book. We use a lot of Wrox books. This one has a lot of good info in it. Although I still haven't found the perfect SharePoint 2013 Developer book, this one fit the need quite well.