March, 2010

See Project 2010 SDK Documentation for the March update of the online Project 2010 SDK.
The  pre-release Project 2010 SDK is updated on MSDN. Post-beta builds of Project Server are changed for setting WCF service references and using multi-authentication (where Windows and Forms are both used) with Claims. These issues do not affect the Project Server 2010 beta release.

The topic How to: Use Impersonation with WCF is updated again for the RC release, since the previous update in February.
Update of Impersonation Article and Code for Project Server 2010 in the Project_Programmability blog includes  code download with the second round of changes that have been made in Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 since the beta release.

Topics with major updates:
Developing Project Server Workflows (all four subtopics are updated, including a PowerShell script for managing workflow deployment)
Prerequisites for WCF-Based Code Samples (includes the corrected changes for creating a PSI proxy)
The managed code reference also has more content, particularly in the Workflow and Driver areas.

The SDK download will be updated shortly after product general availability.

Mike Shughrue – one of our top Project consultants just published samples on how to use PowerShell in Project 2010 to call PSIs: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/pj14PowershellPSI

Why would you care? Want to expose additional PSI objects? Then grab this and follow the “theme”. Your IT friends would love you :) As they e.g. can bulk edit or publish all project using a command line :)

If you would like to try out VS 2010 RC using a virtual machine, check out:

http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2010/03/25/visual-studio-2010-virtual-machines.aspx

Just heard from number of you the confusion on the HW requirements, let attempt to clear some of it by this post.

We advice the following two components that extremely enhance the performance:

• 8GB of RAM is optimal on the host machine so you CAN allocate 6GB to the image
• Please NOTE SharePoint 2010 – (platform for Project Server 2010) does NOT support less than 4GB of RAM - SharePoint Server 2010 system requirements – so 4GB on your host machine will not work as it will not allow you to assign 4GBs to the image.
• Attempts to assign less than 4GBs to the virtual machine will cause number of processes not starting – this is not supported

• Fast Hard drive – preferably SSD (Solid State Drive)
• What is SSD?
• How big you recommend? We recommend 80GB+ as the base image size is approx. 40GB
• Recommendations on maker? We had a great experience with Intel, Kingston with Intel Controller (M-Series or E-Series).

Q&A

Does 2 versus 4 core make a big difference? No in our testing – the biggest speed improvement is the SSD.

What configuration are you using for most of your demos?

• We mostly use DELL E6400 (3GHz, duo Core, 8GB RAM, fast SSD) – this offers optimal size/portability and performance. The Project Conference KeyNote and demos ran from it and all Project 2010 Ignite demos I do, run from it as well! Some partners use the DELL Precision M4400.
• We also use HP EliteBook 8530w (Quad core, 8GB RAM, fast SSD) – this one is slightly bigger and heavier – Christophe uses this one for his Project 2010 Ignite demos.
• We are sure that similar specs from other manufacturers will rock as well!

This material might be handy :)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f8cb362c-75ad-4cb9-9fbc-3abcdf6afeaf

View PowerPoint files from the October 2009 SharePoint 2010 Developer Conference including:

• Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services by Using Visual Studio 2010
• Deep Dive into Open XML 2.0 and the Open XML SDK 2.0
• Developing Advanced Access 2010 Web Databases & Publishing to SharePoint 2010
• Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010
• Developing with the New User Interface Features in SharePoint 2010
• Excel 2010 and Excel Services, and the Top 10 New Features
• Office 2010 UI Extensibility and Customization: Customizing with the Backstage View and Ribbon
• Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint 2010 Development Tools Overview
• What's New in Office 2010 for Developers

Great work Nintex!

This is also great opportunity for all EPM partners to start building workflow templates for managing Project Lifecycle using the Nintex solution as a platform! This also stresses the importance of getting up to speed with SharePoint 2010 as it is a powerful platform for Project Server 2010!

The official announcement URL http://www.nintex.com/en-US/News/Pages/default.aspx (please search for Project Server 2010)