Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Public Beta

The general availability of the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 was announced this morning at PDC.

Download SharePoint 2010 Beta now

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

Download Office 2010 Beta now

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx

Includes: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, OneNote, Access, InfoPath and SharePoint Workspace.

Office 2010 available for MSDN subscribers

Office 2010 was released today on MSDN for MSDN subscribers. This is the Beta version of Office 2010 and includes both 32bit and 64bit versions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=1:383

SharePoint 2010 available for MSDN subscribers

SharePoint 2010 was released today on MSDN for MSDN subscribers. This is the Beta version of SharePoint 2010.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=42:393 

SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course available Now on Channel 9

Today we released a new SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course on Channel 9. This training course contains 14 training units covering all aspects of developing solutions on the SharePoint 2010 platform using Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools while leveraging a rich set of out of the box features. Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 make developers more productive and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server delivers support for application lifecycle management. Developers can integrate Line of Business data in SharePoint 2010 with read/write capability delivered by Business Connectivity Services. Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a shared hosting environment to limit the impact of unpredictable code to the other applications in use.

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

Instructors

The kit includes high quality instructor lead training (ILT) videos from two of most influential members of the MVP SharePoint community; Andrew Connell and Ted Pattison. They will take you through all of the new developer features that are in the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Units in the SharePoint Training Kit

The SharePoint 2010 training kit will cover the following topics.

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010

· What’s New in SharePoint 2010

· All of the PowerPoint decks used in the training

SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap

· What’s New in SharePoint 2010

· Major Shifts in the SharePoint 2010 UI

· Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development

· New Developer Tools for SharePoint 2010

· SharePoint 2010 Integration with PowerShell

SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010

· VS10 SharePoint 2010 Developer Tools

· The SharePoint Explorer

· The Feature Node & Feature Designer

· The Package None and Packaging Support

· Extensibility for Creating Custom SPIs and Context Menus

SharePoint UI Advancements

· The New SharePoint User Experience

· Branding and Compliancy in SharePoint 2010

· Customizing the User Interface

· InfoPath Forms and SharePoint

Designing Lists and Schemas

· New events for SharePoint sites & lists

· List Relationships and Joins

· Unique Column Constraints

· Managing and Querying Large List Support

· Wide List Governance

· List & List Item Validation

· XSL-Based Views

LINQ to SharePoint

· LINQ Primer

· Lambda Expressions

· Anonymous Types

· LINQ to SharePoint

· The DataContext Object

· Creating Typed Data Classes

Client Object Model

· Motivation for a Client Object Model

· The .NET Client Object Model

· The Silverlight Client Object Model

· Astoria Support

· Silverlight Web Parts

· The JavaScript Client Object Model

SharePoint 2010 Workflow

· Business Process Management

· Workflow Foundation

· What’s New in SharePoint 2010 Workflow

· Designing Workflows with SPD

· Developing Workflows with Visual Studio 10

The SharePoint 2010 Services Architecture

· Changes from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Service Model

· Service Model Components

· Service Applications

· Service App Proxies and Service App Groups

· OOTB Service Applications

· Creating Custom Service Applications

External Data in SharePoint (BCS)

· Enterprise Landscape

· Business Connectivity Services

· External Content Types

· Creating Applications

· Publishing Applications

· Visual Studio 2010 support

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

· Web Content Management (WCM) Improvements

· Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

· Advanced Routing

· Metadata Everywhere

· Asset Library

· Document Sets

· In-Place Records Management

Extending Search

· Search “App Taxonomy”

· The Connector Framework

· Creating a .NET Shim

· The Query Pipeline

· Search Center Enhancements

BI Solutions with Performance Point Server 2010

· What is Business Intelligence

· BI Tools in SharePoint 2010

· Performance Point Services

· Excel Services

Sandboxed Solutions

· Application Hosting and Customization

· Site Collection Solutions

· Developing Sandboxed Solutions

· Administrating the sandboxing infrastructure

SharePoint 2010 and Claims-based Security

· SharePoint 12 Authentication

· ACLs and Securable Objects

· Claims-based Security

Other SharePoint Training Resources

The SharePoint MSDN Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint

Developers at MSDN

http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com

IT Pros at TechNet

http://MSSharePointITPro.com

Everyone at Microsoft.com

http://SharePoint.Microsoft.com

The SharePoint 2010 MSDN SDK:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx

SharePoint MSDN Forums:

http://MSSharePointForums.com

SharePoint 2010 Developer Evaluation Guide:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167784

An article on upgrading code from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662217(office.14).aspx

Details of how to install SharePoint 2010 for developers on Windows 7:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx

SharePoint 2010 Early Adopter – Metro – Sign up today

Commitments

· NDA

· Scope and release date information for a product or project that uses the desired technology.

Benefits

· Access to bits and content

· Technical Briefings and training events

· Technical Support

If you want to join

· Talk to your Microsoft representative and ask him/her to nominate your company.

· If you don’t know whom to ask, send email to metroreq@microsoft.com and we’ll match you with someone in your country.

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Be the first to get SharePoint 2010 beta

You can sign up now to be notified when the SharePoint 2010 is released. Be the first on your block to be running the newest version of SharePoint.

Pre-Register here for the SharePoint 2010 Beta

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

 

Free SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference Thursday

SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference & Expo

The SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference and Expo is this Thursday. This is going to be a great event if you are limited to time and travel budget but want to lean about what’s new in SharePoint 2010. I will be speaking and this conference as well a member of the advisory board along with Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell and Doug Barney. This event is shaping up to be huge. There are a ton of people signed up and it is sure to be a great event.

Register at https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/InXpo.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=1730

My Sessions

Client Object Model
The Client Object Model is a new interface to SharePoint that developers can use from Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, Office or JavaScript. Applications not running on the SharePoint Server can use the new SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model to access SharePoint data and administrative APIs. This talk will demonstrate how to use the Client Object Model using Visual Studio 2010.

SharePoint and Silverlight
The combination of the great presentation and user interface capabilities of Silverlight and the rich collaboration platform of SharePoint create an unbeatable combination for making developers very productive in building rich internet applications. SharePoint 2010 features new tools that make it easier to build with Silverlight, including a new Silverlight object model and REST services.

Visual Studio 2010 Package designers for SharePoint

The Visual Studio’s SharePoint Tools team has posted about using the SharePoint Package designers in Visual Studio. The package designers allow you to manage the SharePoint package (.wsp) that Visual Studio builds. The designer abstracts many of the complexities of dealing with the SharePoint packaging xml files. The designers are a good balance between doing everything for you and giving you the ability to dump out and bypass them if you have advanced requirements. Or you could even do something in between by creating your own extensions which plug in to give you new or modified functionality.

Check out the post: http://blogs.msdn.com/vssharepointtoolsblog/archive/2009/11/02/getting-started-with-the-sharepoint-packaging-designers.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Free 1 Day Developer Workshop

Are you a developer interested in learning about Microsoft’s fastest growing development platform? SharePoint 2010 is the Business Collaboration Platform for creating rich enterprise applications. I will be hosting a 1 Day developer workshop in Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Florida next month on December 3rd in Fort Lauderdale and December 7th in Tampa.

Seating is limited. Click on the links below to see more details and sign up.

Sign up now

Fort Lauderdale December 3rd 2009:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432394&Culture=en-US

Tampa December 7th 2009:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432403&Culture=en-US

Here are the sessions that I will present along with Jim Blizzard.

1. SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap

2. SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 10 and SharePoint UI Advancements

3. Building a successful SharePoint development team

4. Designing Lists and Schemas and LINQ to SharePoint

5. Client Object Model and SharePoint 2010 Workflow

6. The SharePoint 2010 Services Architecture, External Data in SharePoint (BCS)

7. Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Extending Search

8. BI Solutions with Performance Point Server 2010

9. User Solutions and Partially Trusted Code, SharePoint 2010 and Claims-based Security

 

SharePoint 2010 development is white-hot right now so be one of the first to get trained. I look forward to seeing everyone at this event.

SharePoint 2010: Sandboxed Solutions

One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its solutions run as full trust… SharePoint Pro Connections just published an article I wrote which discusses one of the new features in SharePoint 2010, Sandboxed Solutions. Sandboxed solutions enable you to run solutions in SharePoint in a security sandbox. This allows administrators to trust the code that developers write. And it allows developers to more rapidly develop and deploy solutions without fear of taking down the entire farm. Sandboxed solutions are the default way to create SharePoint business applications for SharePoint on premise and SharePoint Online.

Read my entire article here:  SharePoint 2010's Sandboxed Solutions

 

SharePoint 2010 SDK is now online

The SharePoint 2010 Beta SDK is now online here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557253(office.14).aspx. There is a ton of documentation here. The SharePoint doc teams have been writing like crazy and have done a great job documenting everything.

New SharePoint 2010 Developer Center on MSDN

The new SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center on MSDN is now live. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx There is a lot of great information for developing SharePoint solutions.

Some of the articles include

What’s new in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (formally WSS)

What's New: Alerts Enhancements

What's New: Business Connectivity Services

What's New: Client Object Model

What's New: Events Improvements

What's New: Microsoft Synch Framework

What's New: Mobile Device Development Enhancements

What's New: Query Enhancements

What's New: Ribbon

What's New: Sandboxed Solutions

What's New: Service Application Framework

What's New: Silverlight Integration and the Fluid Application Model

What's New: UI Improvements

What's New: Windows PowerShell for SharePoint

What's New: Workflow Improvements

What’s new in SharePoint Server 2010 (formally MOSS)

What's New: Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

What's New: Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

What's New: SharePoint Enterprise Search

What's New: PerformancePoint Services

What's New: Excel Services

What's New: User Profiles and Social Data

Word Automation Services Overview

I will be posting more information about each of these topics throughout the month.

SharePoint Conference 2009 – The Book.

SharePoint Conference is finally here. If you are one of the lucky few that made here in person (is 7,000 still considered a few?) you are in for a great time. There is going to be so much information and cool things going on that it’s almost too bad the show is in Vegas, because you won’t have time for any of that other stuff (Vegas is under permanent NDA so that is all that can be said about that). But if you are here, make sure you check your laptop sleeve that they are handing out. Inside you will find the Conference book that has details of all of the new SharePoint 2010 features that you will hear about for the rest of the week. There is a section on the ITPro features and a section on the developer features. Since all of this info has been NDA only until tomorrow, use the book to understand and identify the features and breakout sessions that you want to see during the week. (Of course my session on Tuesday at 1:15 will be a must see event )

The book is very well done and has a ton of information and some HOL walkthroughs to get you going.

Stay tuned. I will be releasing more info on the new SharePoint features all week long.

Silverlight 3 FireStarter Event – Slides Posted

Today I am attending the Silverlight 3 FireStarter event here on campus. You can also watch this live using Silverlight streaming.

Watch the live feed: http://www.msdnevents.com/firestarter/online/index.html

Here is a copy of the agenda with links to the slides.

Time	Session Slides	Speakers
8:45 am – 9:00 am	Event Kick Off	Mithun Dhar
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Keynote	Scott Guthrie
10:00 am – 11:00 am	Key Silverlight Scenarios	Tim Heuer
11:00 am – 11:15 am	BREAK
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Expression 3 Overview (Includes Behaviors)	Adam Kinney
12:15 pm– 1:00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Sketch Flow	Janete Perez
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm	Toolkit & Controls	Justin Angel/Shawn Oster
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	RIA Services	Brad Abrams
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm	BREAK
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm	Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys	Karl Shifflett
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Q&A Panel	All Speakers

Links to all of the slides are also posted here.

Zune HD is here!

I have been looking for a ZuneHD all day. But all of the stores are sold out. I could order them through Amazon but I don’t want to wait, So I will continue to phone the stores everyday looking for new shipments. I was also thinking of ordering one from ZuneOriginals, but am not sure how long it would take to get here. I think I want a red one.

 

The new software is cool too with the Smart  DJ.

From any artist, album, or song, Smart DJ will generate a related playlist from the music on your computer and new music from Zune Marketplace

More Happy is Coming

The next round of Windows 7 ads are coming. Kyle is back and cute as ever. The buzz is starting to crank up as we approach the Public launch of Windows 7 on October 22nd. I saw this video for the first time yesterday at the Company Meeting in Safeco field.