i just received a great email from paul andrew, senior technical product manager on the sharepoint team, detailing a number of great resources for sharepoint developers and it professionals. don’t worry paul. i did not include anything not disclosed yet.
here is the quick rundown:
- The New Product Name
- SharePoint Server 2010
- Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx
- Get Ready
- Move to 64 bit and upgrade to IE 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx
- Run the SharePoint 2007 SP2 PreupgradeChecker http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
- The New Developer Tools
- Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
- Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx
- Ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx
- Ref: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Sharepoint-Development-with-Visual-Studio-2010/
- Ref: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/0/9/C0965791-049B-4200-9008-F07A783026F6/VisualStudio2010_ProductOverview.pdf
- SharePoint Designer is now free
- Ref: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA103607611033.aspx
Will this version actually work? Just do a google search on Sharepoint Sucks and you’ll see my point. It’s marketing hype gone wild.