SharePoint 2010

We have liftoff, well almost. We have the countdown at least! Sometime in April we will have a release candidate RC and sometime in May we will have RTM. See the MS blogs, http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx

Want to edit a page in the Beta2? Well if there is a workflow running....  I guess there is a tag that is supposed to be closed   This page is currently locked for editing because a workflow is running which will stop if the page is changed. Do you want to continue ? Loading...', true);if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOLayout_InDesignMode'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOLayout_InDesignMode'].value = 1;if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOAuthoringConsole_FormContext'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOAuthoringConsole_FormContext'].value = 1;if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOSPWebPartManager_DisplayModeName'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOSPWebPartManager_DisplayModeName'].value = 'Design';__doPostBack('ctl05','edit')" _fcksavedurl=" type=button _layouts images loadingcirclests16.gif?>Loading...', true);if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOLayout_InDesignMode'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOLayout_InDesignMode'].value = 1;if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOAuthoringConsole_FormContext'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOAuthoringConsole_FormContext'].value = 1;if (document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOSPWebPartManager_DisplayModeName'] != null) document.forms['aspnetForm']['MSOSPWebPartManager_DisplayModeName'].value = 'Design';__doPostBack('ctl05','edit')"...

A co-worker pointed out to me today that MSDN has SP 2010 public beta ready for download. Go get it and start playing with it. I guess I am building a VM with it on there tonight!

Now shipping wiht VS 2010 Beta 2, and with SharePoint 2010 you will have support for Linq to SharePoint.  Not the codeplex project, but true linq support from MS(Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq).  What it does in the background is to create the CAML queries for you, to keep up the speed, looks like MS realized that CAML is no ones friend, but they have to support it for backwards compatability. Another neat feature of Linq 2 SP is that it will support filtering of items by lookups, meaning if a list say Regions, and a list for Office Locations, where Region is a lookup field,...

So I just got back to Atlanta yesterday night from Vegas, and I am really tired, but also extremely excited about what I see coming.  From Visual Studio 2010 built-in features, Windows 7 development, sandboxing, to Silverlight everywhere it all looks like a good step forward.  I tried to focus mostly on technology gaps that I happen to see, or where things were still cumbersome, and I have found a couple places, that I would like to see improved, so I guess that is where I will start when Beta 2 is publically released sometime in November 2009.

Well a co-worker sent me this link, so I thought I would go ahead and post it.Microsoft has released Tech Prev. SharePoint 2010 developer documentation.I will post back when I have more time to read through it.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en