Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

 

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

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SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster

The SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform wall poster (PDF format) shows a colorful view of SharePoint 2010 developer tools, community ecosystem, execution environment, Sharepoint Server 2010 workloads, and target application types. The poster is intended to be printed at 24 inches x 36 inches (61 centimeters x 91 centimeters).

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: Upgrade and Migration Resource Center

This page provides resources for IT professionals to help you migrate to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (see on the site the download)

Models

Models are posters that detail a specific technical area. These models are intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. You can download and modify the files to illustrate how you plan to incorporate SharePoint Server 2010 in your own environment.

 

• Upgrade requirements: Hardware, operating system, and database
• Upgrade process: specific steps to follow before, during, and after the upgrade

Upgrade approaches

This model helps you understand the in-place, database migration, and hybrid approaches to upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• See the farm topologies before, during, and after upgrade
• Compare the advantages of each type of upgrade

Test your upgrade process

This model explains the methodology for testing the upgrade process before upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• Understand the goals for testing your upgrade process: customizations, hardware, timing, planning
• See specific steps to follow for testing your upgrade process

Services upgrade

This model covers upgrading services from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

• Considerations for specific services: Personalization, Search, InfoPath Forms, Excel, Business Data Catalog, Single Sign-on
• In-place upgrade with services; Single Shared Services Provider (SSP), multiple SSPs
• Database attach upgrade with services

Get ready to upgrade

Read the following articles to get started. For complete upgrade information and procedures, see the deployment section in the technical library.

• What's new in upgrade
• Migrate an existing server farm to a 64-bit environment
• Determine upgrade approach
• Upgrade process overview
• Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues
• Run the pre-upgrade checker (available during Beta)
• In-place upgrade:
  • Upgrade in place to SharePoint Server 2010
  • Preview and commit to upgraded sites (available during Beta)
• Database migration:
  • Prepare the new SharePoint Server 2010 environment for a database attach upgrade
  • Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010
• Verify upgrade and review upgraded sites (available during Beta)

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: Upgrade and Migration Resource Center

Getting Started with Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Learn about SharePoint Server 2010

 

Presenter: John Ross
SharePoint MVP, SharePoint911
Length: (27:59)

For more information, see the module page for What Can SharePoint 2010 Do for Me?

Getting Started with Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Learn about SharePoint Server 2010

Create External Content Types using SharePoint Designer 2010

External Content Types section within SharePoint Designer lets us define connections to Line of Business data that we have access to as a developer, designer or admin of that site. Once the connection is defined, business analysts can use that connection to create what’s called External Lists which shows the content of what the connection is attached to (for example a table in a database).
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SharePoint 2010 – Create a Visual Web Part

So to begin I am using Windows Foundation Services 2010 (Or what was known as WSS 4) and Visual Studio 2010 with the SharePoint Tools installed.

Let's begin open up Visual Studio 2010 and create a project based on the Visual Web Part Template

SharePoint 2010 – Create a Visual Web Part

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that let you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies including cloud and parallel computing. Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily ensuring high quality solutions while driving down the cost of solution development.
For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx

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