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Microsoft’s SharePoint site, has new content for SharePoint 2010. There are 3 “Sneak Peak” videos, one targeted for developers, one for IT Pros, and an overview video.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

I must warn you they are pretty long (especially the overview), so prepare for several hours of SharePoint joy.

I have summarized the key new features presented in each video: (click on the pictures to enlarge them)

Overview Video

• Multi Select inside lists.
• Build in silverlight web part.
• Apply Office themes on SharePoint sites.
• Visio Services.
• Redone Interface, very AJAXified.
• BCS – Business Connectivity Services. This is the next evolution of BDC.
  • read\write built into it.
  • Leverages SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 as editing tools.
  • Offline support using SharePoint Workspaces 2010.
  • External Content Types, and external Lists – CTs and Lists based on BCS entities.
  • BCS smart part for Word 2010!
• Live Edit – Like Publishing Field controls from MOSS2007. now part of every team site’s platform.

  
Live Edit

 
SharePoint Designer 2010

 
BCS smart part

 
BCS Offline with SharePoint Workspaces 2010

IT PTO Video

• New Central Admin Site featuring a new UI.
• Ribbon also in SCA.
• Best Practices Analyzer – Shows you problems in your farm based on prebuilt rules. Has the ability to fix them. Administrator can add custom rules to monitor.
• New SQL server based reports engine. Administrator can create custom reports.
• Large lists now warn users about limitations, and suggests to create smaller views.
• Unattached Content DB Recovery – allows you to explorer, select and restore specific items from an unattached content BD. AWSOME!
• Upgrading preserves the old 2007 interface. After upgrading site owners can choose to upgrade to the new UI.

New Central Administration Site

Unattached Content DB Recovery

Developer Video

• New Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development.
  • Server Explorer – Explorer SharePoint Farm hierarchy and artifacts from VS. (like SharePoint Manager 2007)
  • Better integration with TFS.
  • New project templates.
  • Project templates supports WSP packaging.
  • Better F5 experience.
  • Visual Designer for Web Parts.
• Developer Dashboard – Provides information and statistics for developers an specific pages.
• Linq for SharePoint!
• Client Object Model!!!
• BCS editing in VS2010.

New project types

SharePoint server explorer

Linq for SharePoint

Developer dashboard

BCS Editing in VS2010

 
Client OM