Developers! Developers! Developers!   Microsoft has just released the SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) which contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies.   The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (S ...[Read More]

Microsoft has updated their Information Worker SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine to include the SharePoint 2010 RTM. Pretty amazing considering SharePoint is officially launching tomorrow! 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Virtual machine "a" contains the following pre-configured softwar ...[Read More]

As SharePoint 2010 RTM has arrived the following hands-on labs are now available: Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations Hands-on Lab: Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010 ...[Read More]

The 2010 wave has started.  SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications have gone RTM. Which means these are the products Microsoft is making available to customers.    General Public You can download the following right now for FREE: SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit) (64-bit) PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel ...[Read More]

Every now and then, Microsoft releases documents, guides or software that everyone should know. This month, Microsoft released the following downloads:   SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity technical case studies - technical case studies that describe specific deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Compare the scenarios in these do ...[Read More]

Download SharePoint 2010 (RC) VS Extensibility Projects The SharePoint & Office Developer & Platform Evangelism Team has just released SharePoint 2010 Extensbility Projects on the MSDN Code Gallery site. They are provided three projects that you can use to augment your SharePoint 2010 development efforts. The three projects leverage the ...[Read More]

UPDATE: The Microsoft SharePoint Product Group has just announced this on their blog, SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch. As the Microsoft Office product development group announced on their blog, that starting today if you purchase and activate Office 2007 you will be able to download Office 2010 at no additional cost when it becomes avail ...[Read More]

UPDATE: On May 11, 2010 the SharePoint 2010 RTM Virtual Machine was released by Microsoft.  This is the updated version that has been released to the public!   The SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine aka 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is now available for everyone!  This is one day after Microsoft released ...[Read More]

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners.  The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today.  Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details!   Here’s hoping the SharePoint Community at large will have acc ...[Read More]

UPDATE: Check out Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig:  Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Inst ...[Read More]