A few weeks back Microsoft provided a sneak peak of the Office 2010 suite and, more importantly, SharePoint 2010. Some of you may be salivating over some of the functionality presented in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peak. So why wait until SharePoint 2010 is released to get the new functionality when your MOSS 2007 implementation can have some of it now?
To keep you in suspense a tad bit longer, here is a recap of some of the functionality presented to us in the sneak peak:
- Silverlight WebPart
- Business Connectivity Services
- LINQ for SharePoint
- Rich Media Support
- Usage Reporting and Logging
- Best Practices Analyser
- Large List Resource Throttling
- Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools
Microsoft have incorporated certain functionality in SharePoint 2010 that may look new to some, but to the trained eye, are available to everyone – you just have to know where to look. Below you can find my list of the alternative resources and links to their location. Most resources are free (developed by the CodePlex community or by the kind people at Microsoft).
If you know of any more that I have missed please let me know and I will add it to the list. I will aspire to maintain this list as more information comes to light on the new functionality in SharePoint 2010. Enjoy!
| Table 1 – SharePoint 2010 Functionality and SharePoint 2007 Alternatives |
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| SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2007 |
| Usage Reporting and Logging | SharePoint ULS Log Viewer |
| Rich Media Support | Podcasting Kit For SharePoint |
| Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools | SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit |
| Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools | BDC MetaMan |
| Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools | Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 – Mar 2009 CTP |
| LINQ for SharePoint | LINQ to SharePoint |
| Large List Resource Throttling | White paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 20071 |
| Silverlight WebPart | Silverlight 2 RTM Blueprint for SharePoint2 |
| Best Practices Analyser | Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System1 |
2 Silverlight has now reached version 3. The current RTM supports only Version 2. Karine Bosch’s article on integrating Silverlight 3 with SharePoint provides you with help on getting Silverlight 3 going in SharePoint 2007. See http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/integrating-silverlight-3-in-sharepoint-2007/
Tags: Best Practices Analyser, Business Connectivity Services, Large List Resource Throttling, LINQ, MOSS 2007, Rich Media Support, SharePoint 2010, Silverlight, Usage Reporting and Logging, Visual Studio 2010
