Overview
Gain a thorough understanding of the design goals, feature set and solutions and benefits provided by SharePoint 2010 with this evaluation guide. Along with beneficial information for administrators and developers, you’ll find specific focus on the areas of collaboration and social networking, search, business intelligence, enterprise content management and composite applications.
IT Professional
Intended for the Windows administrator, SharePoint 2007 administrator, Web server administrator, or any IT professional involved in server administration, this evaluation guide provides an overview of the SharePoint® 2010 features that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and configuring the SharePoint farm.
Developer
Intended for the professional developer, development lead, and software architect, this evaluation guide provides a framework for an effective evaluation of SharePoint 2010 as a solution creation platform. Beginning with an overview of the comprehensive solutions that can be built by developing on SharePoint, the guide covers new platform features and solution deployment enhancements, then concludes with six walkthroughs of sample developer customizations.
Central Administration gets a new look and feel.
Central Administration also takes advantage of the Ribbon.
Review and configure SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer rules.
The SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer report page.
A report for slow Pages based off data in the new SharePoint Logging Database.
The throttling controls for large lists in Central Administration.
The end user experience of a list view that has exceeded the throttling threshold set by the server administrator.
The new unattached database content recovery UI in Central Administration.
An upgraded SharePoint server 2007 site without the new SharePoint 2010 visuals enabled yet.
An upgraded SharePoint server 2007 site with the new SharePoint 2010 visuals enabled using the Visual Upgrade feature.
Ribbon in SharePoint makes working with your information easy.
Web Edit with live preview makes it easy to edit the content on your page.
Add rich media or applications to your site with the built-in Silverlight Web Part.
Transform your SharePoint site using Office themes.
Cross browser support Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
Create, monitor and view complex business processes in Office or browser with Visio and Visio Services.
Designer 2010 makes working with SharePoint or your LOB data connected into SharePoint easy.
Connect to, view & edit data from Line-of-Business systems suing SharePoint’s Business connectivity services.
Integrate Line-of-Business data in Microsoft Word 2010 using SharePoint’s Business connectivity services.
Work online or offline in the new SharePoint Workspace 2010 with your SharePoint lists, libraries and even Line-of-Business data.
View, edit and synchronize your Line-of-Business data using SharePoint Workspace 2010.
In PowerPoint insert & edit video stored in SharePoint.
All the Project Templates for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010
Creating a new deployment configuration for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010
Editing a SharePoint solution manifest in Visual Studio 2010
Adding a custom assembly to a Sharepoint Solution in Visual Studion 2010
The Solution package designer in Visual Studio 2010
Shows the new SharePoint Connection node in the Server Explorer.
The new SharePoint Visual Web Part Editor in Visual Studio 2010
Editing a Web Part Page in SharePoint 2010
Adding a Web Part to a Web Part Zone in SharePoint 2010
Running a simple Web Part in SharePoint 2010
Sample code showing an example LINQ to SharePoint query
The developer dashboard button is in the top right of the screenshot
Shows the developer dashboard at the bottom of the page
Editing the BCS Type Descriptor to Create a new Method
Reviewing the parameters for a method in the BCS Type Descriptor
Reviewing the code for a BCS External Content Type
Creating an External List from a BCS External Content Type
Viewing data from a LOB system in an External List using BCS
Sample code that uses the SharePoint Client Object Model from Silverlight
Shows a Silverlight application that could be uploaded to SharePoint 2010
Shows adding the Silverlight Web Part to a SharePoint page
Asking for the URL to the Silverlight application
