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SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek
Well at last we get can get a glimpse into some of the features coming out in SharePoint 2010, due for main release in the first half of next year. (PS No NDAs broken here, this stuff is all publically available from the Microsoft Web site
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The Developer Dashboard
Check out the ‘Developer Dashboard’ where you can “review diagnostic information including detailed page request information such as timings, names and resources for all stored procedures calls, memory used and authenticated user, the number of SPRequests objects, any asserts and critical events and timings for web parts events for the page rendering” – and breath
LINQ for SharePoint
Use LINQ to access SharePoint lists,
joins and projections
Visual Studio 2010
Some amazing improvements to the development experience within Visual Studio. Life might just get a little simpler from now one?
SharePoint explorer
Cool, you no longer need to use SharePoint Manager 2007 (Although this is an excellent tool) You can now explore SharePoint directly from Visual Studio 2010
Visual Web Part Designer
You have to look at the visual web part designer. Design web parts just like web pages. Drag and drop those controls and away you go!
Business Connectivity Services – The new BDC!
So Read/Write capabilities are now included in the new BDC, that’s great and is going to be SO powerful!
…..check out the videos online here

