Top Features of SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 includes new tools for creating, packaging and debugging SharePoint solutions.VS includes a new designer for building web parts visually, a new designer for building Business Connectivity Services (Formerly named BDC Entities), and designer for creating SharePoint Solutions, features and more. It has integrated support for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, including source code control and team build capabilities. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for SharePoint LINQ is a new popular and strongly typed data query syntax that is used directly in C# or VB.NET code. Strongly typed queries provide compile time validation to SharePoint list schema, and LINQ provides a simpler alternative to CAML queries. BCS BCS formerly named BDC provides read/write access to external data from a Line of business (LOB) system, Web services, databases, or other external data provider within SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications. Both SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications have product features that can use external data directly, online and offline, and rich BCS tools in SP Designer 2010 and VS 2010. Client Object Model (OM) The OM allows for access to SharePoint APIs from a remote machine. The Object model is optimized for remote access and can be used from Silverlight, ECMAScript, and .NET applications. Silver light Web part SP 2010 includes a built-in Silver light Web part so that Silver light XAP applications can be uploaded to a Document Library and used immediately. Silver light applications use the Client OM to access SharePoint data from within the application. Install on windows 7

Just for developers, SharePoint foundation 20 10 or SharePoint Server 2010 can be installed on Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Vista with a single machine install combined with VS 2010,developers have a great option for a developer workstation. Workflow SP Workflow is ideal for collaborative workflows involving tasks and forms. In SP 2010, Workflow has improved runtime features including management, site workflows, custom local services, event receivers, and reliability. In addition, it has better tools including Visio 2010, SP Designer 2010, Visual Studio 2010, and InfoPath 2010, which are also better integrated. Sandboxed Solutions Sandboxed Solutions can include Web parts, event receivers, and workflow activities, InfoPath form business logic, feature activation events and many XML constructs. These solutions are resource-limited to avoid overloading the server and API-limited to avoid unauthorized data access. They execute on the server in a separate process or on a separate Server from the rest SharePoint. REST and ATOM Data Feeds SharePoint 2010 makes list data and Excel data available using simple REST and ATOM protocols. Using ADO.NET Data Services to access REST/ATOM data in a VS 2010 application makes it easy to access data from SP 2010 SharePoint 2010 has following new features

Better support for Internet Facing sites

More security features & flexibility in managing permissions Email management for users Faster search More storage options such as SAN, NAS, RAID etc. (currently only SQL) Improved taxonomy management Better Dashboards and reports Records and archiving policies Easy to use templates

More commands Microsoft Groove is renamed as SharePoint Workspace Manager Integration with other CMS products Improved InfoPath form capabilities More workflow types Native support for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and Opera Better support for Mobile devices Easy migration from SPS2003 and MOSS 2007 Snapshot backup and recovery Granular recovery at item level Following Areas of Improvement in SharePoint 2010 From End Users Prospective
1. Office Client Ribbon interface for in-place editing of SharePoint content on web Silverlight web parts and finer control on site Themes.

2. Multiple Browser support Internet Explorer

, Firefox & Safari 3. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) as the evolution of BDC. These services can now be consumed from Office client apps also. 4. SharePoint Workspace (formerly called Groove): a smart client for SharePoint. Supports online, offline and Synchronization of data.

From Developers Prospective

1. Streamlined Central Administration with Ribbon interface 2. SharePoint best practices analyzer: Rule based engine for monitoring and selfhealing. 3. Resource Throttling controls: For large lists, a finer control on how many records can be displayed. This can be controlled per type of users and during particular time span of a day. 4. Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools: Designer for creating Web Parts visually and Business Connectivity Services Entities 5. Client Object Model (OM): Client side libraries which can be used by custom clients to interact with SharePoint data. These can be called from JavaScript, .NET or Silver light apps.