SPJeff

Today Microsoft released some great videos highlighting the potential of the next release of SharePoint.    There is some excellent material here include a full walk through showing live products in action.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/

 

Overview

• Tom Rizzo, speaker
• Robust cross browser support
• AJAX calls for faster page loads
• SharePoint Designer 2010 – Streamline interface, robust BDC features.    No more Lightning Tool BDC Metaman?
• SharePoint Workspace 2010 – Take lists and documents offline with a better than ever Groove client
• BCS is the new BDC
• Rich integration with Office 2010 – Sample BCS populated memo to regional sales representative.

               

IT Pro

• Richard Riley, speaker
• Professional productivity, Scalable platform, Flexible deployment
• Release timeline
• Central Admin cleaned interface.   Similar to Control Panel in XP from Windows 2000.  
• Robust Logging.   New dedicated database, runs BPA (Best Practice Analyzer) to give suggestions, granular detail never seen before.   “Slowest Pages” insight.
• Visual Upgrade.    Allows site owners and users to preview before decided to switch browser interfaces.

Developer

• Developer productivity, Platform services, Flexible deployment
• Developer dashboard.   Site feature provides browser output with detail rendering stack.  
• Visual Studio 2010  – MUCH improved developer experience.    Detailed build options and project types.
• Visual web part designer.
• LINQ for SharePoint API
• Client Object Model (OM) available in Silverlight and JavaScript.
• Write quality solutions in less time.