To once a month updates?
I haven’t stopped since I got back from SPC and have been dashing around between clients working on SharePoint 2007 issues. Doesn’t anyone understand I want to play with SharePoint 2010 now? Or more to the point, I need to upskill in some areas very quickly to get the most of SP2010 and all the goodness it brings.
Looking at whats coming in SP2010, I honestly think the IT Pro’s have got it easy.. You guys just have to learn one new application, Us Devs have to learn at least 2, SP2010 and Visual Studio 2010!
Then on top of that, we have an updated object model to contend with, along with a brand new object model in the form of the SharePoint Client OM!
Add to this the requirements to use XSLT for almost every list view in SP2010, SPLinq (Call it SPlinq, MS hate that!!), Silverlight and a lot more Javascript than before, all adds up to a lot of skill-up time!
So here’s to spending many evenings and train journeys in front of Visual Studio, playing with Silverlight 101 and all the new Sharepoint tools that now come out of the box with VS!
I’m booked up in December as solidly as November was, so i wouldn’t expect too many posts on here just yet, although I am planning to extend the piece I wrote on KPI’s to give more ideas and hopefully present on this at a SUG do in the early new year.
Regards
Paul.
Well the MS SharePoint 2009 conference is over and life is slowly returning to normal. A couple of days away from SharePoint to restore my equilibrium and I’m now back to SharePoint 2007 and the real world.
But what of SharePoint 2010? When can we see it in all it’s glory. Well Steve Ballmer announced that the Beta 2 release would be sometime in November as they were doing last minute testing internally in Microsoft. During the conference, all of the SharePoint web pages were switched over to the new version and reports coming out suggest no major problems. So fingers crossed for an early Beta 2 in November.
The conference for me was all about soaking up the changes to development in SP2010. I didn’t really focus on any of the admin sessions at all as I’m planning to download and watch them on my long journeys to work over the next few weeks. So what does SP2010 bring to us Devs?
Well the big story is the much improved integration with Visual Studio 2010. (Beta 2 available now) which ships with an absolute ton of SharePoint 2010 project templates from Web Parts to Event Receivers, List Definitions, Content Types etc.
And the biggest win for me.. ONE TOUCH DEPLOYMENT!! Yes.. hit F5 and your project deploys to your test server with nary a hiccup and just a minor bit of configuration during the project set-up. Gone are the days of configuring your DDF files and your WSPs (Well once we convince all of our clients to switch to 2010 that is!!)
So my top 5 improvements (i reserve the right to get more excited about others as time unfolds):-
- One touch deployment for testing
- Automatic creation of the WSP (This should encourage more solution deployments)
- Visual Webpart designers (Think using a User Control without needing Son of Smart Part)
- Content Types that can be deployed and updated
- Vastly improved Tableless design
Over the next few weeks I’ll be playing with Beta 1 with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (If they play nicely together) and hopefully will be rearranging this list and probably expanding it. Beta 1 is still under NDA, so nothing that hasn’t been mentioned at SPC09 will be raised, but hopefully Beta 2 won’t be far around the corner.
Paul.
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Ok, so Microsoft finally released the full session schedule during the last 24 hours and I’ve tentatively booked the sessions that I want to go see.. And this has to be subject to change because there are so many great sessions that i want to get into. Thank god Microsoft are going to provide an AV feed of all sessions within 48 hours of them finishing. Hopefully I can download these and watch them on the train into work during the following week.
So, here’s my current schedule..(Subject to Change.. Hastags for Twitter Search)
Saturday 17th
- Arriving about 2:30pm PST
- Gambling and trying to avoid jetlag! Probably joining @jthake somwhere in Vegas
Sunday 18th
- Getting to see Vegas,
- Catch the Formula 1 somewhere (#ShareF1)
- 18:00 ish.. register then #SharePint
Monday 19th
- 9:00AM – Keynote Speech – Steve Ballmer
- 10:30AM – Keynote 2 – Jeff Teper
- 1:15PM – Overview of the SP2010 Developer platform
- 2:45PM – Visual Studio 2010 SP Development Tools Overview
- 4:30PM – Developing with SP2010 Sandboxed Solutions
- Evening – no idea yet..going with the flow.
Tuesday 20th
- 9:00AM – Advanced Webpart development in VS2010
- 10:30AM SP2010 based document assembley and manipulation using Word
- 1:15PM – Authentication & Authorisation in SP2010
- 1:15PM – Deep Dive Open XML and Open XML SDK
- 2:45PM – SP2010 Upgrade part 1 – Fundamentals
- 4:30PM – SP2010 Development Best practices
- Evening – 80’s Beach party!!!!! and then #TweetupSPC09 if it’s still going on
Wednesday 21st
- 9:00AM – Workflow development in SP2010 with VS2010
- 10:30AM – Developing with the new User Interface features in SP2010
- 1:15PM – Developing with REST and LINQ in SP2010
- 2:45PM – Extending the VS2010 SP tools with new Designers
- 4:30PM – Customizing the VS2010 Sharepoint deployment process
- Evening – Jury’s out on this one.. might go watch #ShareHoldem
Thursday 22nd
- 9:00AM – Load testing SP2010 with VSTS
- 10:30AM – Deep Dive into SP2010 Profile Store and profile Data
- 1:15PM – Application Lifecycle Management for Developers in SP2010
- 2:45PM – Building rich dynamic websites with SP2010
- Evening – #ShareHofBrau – Last chance to catchup with SP stragglers..
Friday 23rd
- 16:40 Takeoff for London Gatwick!! (arrives 10:30AM!)
So all told a pretty rammed week.. But I’m REALLY looking forward to it..
Yes it’s nearly a month since my last confession again… And a busy one at that…
Shortly after the first videos were sent out by Microsoft, my company got accepted into the early adopters program, and also the Technical Beta!!
So now, I have to squeeze in some time to start writing new articles on SharePoint 2010 in readiness for publication on the day the NDA is lifted.. which I predict will be around the start of the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas on Ocotober 19th which I’m very pleased to be able to say I’m attending!! I sorted out my registration this afternoon, with flights and hotels to be booked this evening..!!
But before all this happens, I have to finished these confounded event handlers on a list with Item approval.. watch this space.
Paul.