<p>Author: Bart McDonough, Dave Milner &amp; Paul StorkPublisher: Apress, 2012Pages: 243ISBN: 978-1430241829Aimed at: Developers who want an introduction to SharePoint OnlineRating: 3.5Reviewed by: Kay Ewbank</p><p>This is a book aimed at .NET and ASP.NET developers who are beginners in their knowledge of both SharePoint and Office 365, but who now need to customize the cloud-based suite. The book provides a clear if restricted introduction to this, though anyone with SharePoint experience would find it of limited use.</p><p>The authors start with an intro to Office 365 and SharePoint Online, before going on to discuss the three ways to customize SharePoint Online - through the browser, using Visual Studio, and using client-side coding with SharePoint Designer. There's a chapter on setting up a development environment for SharePoint Online, though some of this seemed to me somewhat of a waste of space. If you're a .NET developer, you hopefully already have Visual Studio set up and working, and are already familiar with virtual machines. The rest of the chapter - creating a local setup of SharePoint 2010, Designer 2010, and an HTML editor was more useful.</p><p>Chapter 4 takes you through the options available if you're customizing using only a browser for minimal changes such as site settings, themes, and simple lists. The more sophisticated options of SharePoint Designer are tackled next, and the authors show how to use web parts and XSLT to customize the display of data. The chapter also covers accessing external data using Business Connectivity Services, and introduces building declarative workflows.</p><p><a href="http://www.i-programmer.info/bookreviews/78-visual-studio-a-general-net/5458-pro-sharepoint-2010-development-for-office-365.html">Keep reading...</a></p>