Extending Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a technology that was designed to be extended and used with other products. Several products from Microsoft and other software vendors use Windows SharePoint Services as an extensible platform. These products build additional features that work with Windows SharePoint Services or customize existing features to meet the users' needs. This extension and customization can be as simple as editing an XML template file or providing special Web Parts that can be used on Web Part Pages, or as complex as creating entire products that build on the Windows SharePoint Services functionality. Other products may also provide administrative or user tools that interact with Windows SharePoint Services, or may link their document editing applications into Windows SharePoint Services to allow users to edit documents directly from the site.

If you have installed Windows SharePoint Services as part of another product, be sure to read the administrative documentation for that product to find out what additional features you have that are not covered in the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide.

If you are interested in building features for Windows SharePoint Services to work with your product, you can find information about building Web Parts, connecting to Windows SharePoint Services, and customizing Windows SharePoint Services features and templates files in the Windows SharePoint Services Software Development Kit.

For more information about creating or customizing templates, see Working with Templates (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0).

For more information about distributing Web Parts, see Managing Web Parts on Virtual Servers (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0).