In my last blog I talked about the new site around SharePoint 2010 and the sneak peak videos. I got a chace to watch them and here are my notes:

 

SharePoint 2010 Feature Highlights:

 

  • New User Interface including new Ribbon

  • Web Edit

  • Silverlight Web Part

  • Rich Theming

  • Browser support for Safari, Firefox and IE

  • Visio Services

  • SharePoint Designer enhancements

  • Business Connectivity Services (BDC evolution)

  • SharePoint Workspaces (formerly Groove) or offline libraries

  • Richer Media Support

SharePoint 2010 Admin Improvements:

  • New SA user interface, with a ribbon based interface

  • Best practices analyzer fix performance issue and configuration issues

  • Usage Reporting and Logging analytics much richer..

  • Large list resource Throttling

  • Unattached Content Database Recovery via admin UI

  • Visual Upgrade

 

SharePoint 2010 Developer Improvements:

 

  • Visual Studio SharePoint Tools

  • Better deployment, BCS Entity creation support

  • TFS support, automated build, CI etc.

  • LINQ for SharePoint  - no more CAML…

  • Developer Dashboard

  • Any page can be enabled to debug or trace all the SPRequest object  activity

  • Client Object Model (OM)

  • New API for SP 2010 to write custom client based apps (rich UI) against SP lists and data

  • JavaScript,  .NET , or Silverlight code can call this

  • Silverlight Web Part