Thursday

SharePoint 2010 Must Read Features - High Importance

SharePoint 2010 Conference Take Aways!!:

  • SharePoint gets the Ribbon (menus becomes easier)
  • SharePoint Designer gets the Ribbon (menus becomes easier)
  • Windows 7 and Vista become SharePoint development platforms
  • Standards support for XHTML, WCAG, REST, ECT.,
  • Sandboxed solutions: Sandboxed solutions are managed in Central Administration and target a site collection to isolate code.
  • Access Services: develop solutions in Acess for publishing to SharePoint
  • SharePoint 2010 Bets available in November
  • No need for any third party solution generators instead we can build, package and deploy from Visual Studio itself.
  • 2010 lists can allow for tens of millions of items.
  • External Lists make data available inside SharePoint, including for update and delete
  • SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio both read and write the same WSPs, so you can create a site or any element in SharePoint Designer, package it as a WSP, and open it for deeper development in Visual Studio. This is killer for turning SharePoint Designer into a legitimate tool, especially for workflow development.
  • Silverlight webparts are now available.
  • The Ribbon provides the Office 2007 / 2010 editing experience right inside SharePoint.
  • SharePoint 2010 supports CSS 3.0 & tableless masterpages OOTB.
  • SharePoint 2010 has built-in spelling dictionary