Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010 (news, site). While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements that you are bound to like. Here are 8 changes to SharePoint WCM that you need to know about.
8 Ways Web Content Management has Improved in SharePoint 2010
8 Ways Web Content Management has Improved in SharePoint 2010
New features in SharePoint Server 2010
Moss 2010 is coming up with lots of new features and functionality that will help a system engineer to work more efficiently. In our sneak preview we found Microsoft has improved the MOSS-2010 on its technical part rather than changing the user appearance in 2010 in comparison to MOSS 2007. So you will see most of the things similar to MOSS 2007, but with more features and ease of use.
Microsoft really worked on it and luckily this time SharePoint 2010 seeks to facilitate each of aforesaid challenges. Now SharePoint 2010 supports:
• Latest .NET 3.5 platform enhancements (such as WCF and LINQ)
• Silverlight 3.0
• The Business Data Catalog (BDC) has become Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• BCS now supports full read/write capabilities
• SharePoint Designer 2010 receives a major upgrade. It now supports creating more complex workflows that are more re-usable.
• Visual Studio 2010 will come with SharePoint 2010 tools that far exceed the extensions available for Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Web Parts and other SharePoint pages can be built with graphical editors and debugged without leaving the Visual Studio environment.
• The experience will be much more like that of ASP.NET web applications.
The points mentioned above are couple of new add-on/support features that have been added to SharePoint 2010. Based on the features, we categorized them in three main categories as below
SharePoint 2010 Application Layers
SharePoint 2010 Platform Improvements
SharePoint 2010 Development Tools Improvements
Click on each link above to read more about the SharePoint 2010 new features.
Sharepoint 2010 Alpha
Finally Micosoft SharePoint Server 2010 RTM is all set to realease on May 12th 2010. We already did the beta version testing in our lab and though for us would take some time to migrate to 2010 as we had invested a lot in the end user training and customization of apps. But also note that we were ready with our software and hardware requirements and our current environment is MOSS 2007 SP2.
SharePoint 2010 Alpha is yet to come, take a sneak preview of the screens shot of Sharepoint 2010.
click here to see First ScreenShot of the Sharepoint 2010