SharePoint 2010 documentation now available
The SharePoint 2010 public Beta will be available in November 2009. You can start now by reading and knowing more about it as the SharePoint 2010 documentation and learning resources are now available on MSDN SharePoint Developer Center and TechNet's SharePoint Products TechCenter.
SharePoint 2010 post by Jeff Teper – Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server, Microsoft on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog contains a nice summary of SharePoint 2010 features.
What's New information
You can start by reading the What's new in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Windows SharePoint Services is now Microsoft SharePoint Foundation) and What's new in SharePoint Server 2010 pages in SharePoint Developer Center. Then read the What's New in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) page and What's New in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) in SharePoint Products TechCenter.
SharePoint Foundation Building Blocks provides a concise view of the primary underlying components of SharePoint Foundation.
For PerformancePoint Server 2007 developers, the place to start is What's new for PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2010) page.
Evaluation Guides
- SharePoint 2010 Professional Developers Evaluation Guide - describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers
- SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide for IT Professionals - designed to help IT pros gain sufficient knowledge and understanding to evaluate Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Models/Posters
- Services in SharePoint Products 2010 - Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design
- Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products - illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services
Starting Development
Getting Started: How SharePoint 2010 Works module provides information on system requirements, which browsers are supported, and basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server article describes how to install a development environment with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010 page has links to following 10 modules.
- Module 1: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
- Module 2: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010
- Module 3: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010
- Module 4: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs
- Module 5: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs
- Module 6: Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
- Module 7: Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows
- Module 8: Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions
- Module 9: Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
- Module 10: Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010
Upgrade Information
For information on upgrading current SharePoint 2007 installations, refer to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resource Center for guidance. There is lot of relevant information in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: Deprecated Types and Methods.
HTH
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