Thursday, May 31, 2012

SharePoint 2010 - New Capabilities and Features

Many of us might be wondering, why SharePoint 2010 is becoming so popular and why is that there are a lot of migrations are happening from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010?  - I was looking for some articles and finally found something useful, which I thought to share with you.


SharePoint 2010 can be broadly classified into 3 based on its new capabilities and features. They are


Tools for Developer Productivity
Rich Platform Services and
Improved Flexibility for Deployments


Lets see what is there inside each of these.




TOOLS FOR DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project types and items
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools extensibility
  • Microsoft Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint upgrade
  • Windows® 7 and Windows Vista® operating system support
  • Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Developer dashboard
  • Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 integration

RICH PLATFORM SERVICES
  • SharePoint Ribbon
  • SharePoint Dialog Framework
  • Microsoft Silverlight® Web Part
  • List lookups and relationships
  • Business Connectivity Services
  • LINQ to SharePoint
  • Performance enhancements
  • Solution throttling
  • Event enhancements
  • Workflow enhancements
  • Client object model
  • Open Data Protocol (OData) REST APIs

IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY FOR DEPLOYMENTS
  • Sandboxed solutions
  • Silverlight application deployment
  • SharePoint Online
  • Upgrading solutions




Further to this, if we want to understand the Development Platform Stack for SharePoint 2010, please refer below pic, taken form SharePoint 2010 SDK.




Further to this, if we want to understand the difference between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, I found the below from one of the Walkthrough article of Microsoft Site.




 Will keep you posted more on the information acquired on SharePoint 2010 going forward.




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