Tech-Motive

Coding in Sharepoint is not so easy as developers get very minimum support from Visual Studio. For example, if a developer has to make a Web part then he or she has to go to Visual Studio and write down plenty of codes for creating a single control. Manytimes we also use SmartPart right. Hopefully, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will offer various features that will make Sharepoint developers' life much more comfortable. I am quickly listing and briefing all those: Web Part Designer: Developer will get designer support for creating web parts. It will work quite similar like the Smart Part but in a better way. Debugging: Debugging Sharepoint applications will be done by "F5". Yeppi, it will be same like any other program in Visual Studio. Sharepoint Server Explorer: All Sharepoint items like lists, document libraries, features and templates will be viewable with in Visual Studio and developers can change and manipulate it directly. Isn't it good guys? WSP Import an...

Microsoft recently announced that they are going to remove office word from the next version of SharePoint Server. As part of the Exchange Server 2010's public beta realease (and 14 waves of products), they have also announced about the next version of SharePoint Server and they are calling it as Microsoft Sharepoint 2010. What about the MOSS word? It sounds interesting as they think that office word may confuse users. It's not a big issue but definetely we all are waiting for the next version of this product. Technical preview will be relased in the third quarter of 2009 and we can expect the final version on somewhere around first half of 2010. Following links can be useful in this context: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx