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Sharepoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit

paulfo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:57:35 GMT

A quick shout out for the Sharepoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit. It is a really useful addition to resources for us developers new to or less familiar with SharePoint. Complete with video presentations links to Channel 9 content and local hands on lab exercises, it quickly highlights the key technologies and techniques you need to understand for working successfully with SharePoint 2010.

You can download the training kit from here.

Well done to my Developer & Platform Evangelism colleagues in Corp who put this kit together!

SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 x64

paulfo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:11:24 GMT

I’m just completing the installation of a standalone development environment for SharePoint 2010 Beta on my Windows 7 x64 netbook. There are a few gotchas to doing this which I wanted to share with you, it turns out that they are all well documented by the SharePoint team but finding them is always easier if someone pulls together the reading list first.

The most comprehensive documentation is by Jie Li:

http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/10/25/sharepoint-2010-pre-requisites-download-links.aspx

But I found my Configuration Wizard failing with ‘IIS Not Found’ and had to look further. Then I discovered the SharePoint team blog document:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx

In Step 8 of the above post, there is an IIS configuration script that needed to be run to. Once I’d done this from the wizard proceeded without issue until it had completed 8 out of 10 tasks.

It then failed again with ‘Failed to create sample data’. Looking into the log file I could see that a web service call had timed out. Suspecting that this was a ‘first run’ issue, I closed a few Windows and re-ran the configuration wizard…15 years as a MS techie doesn’t count for nothing you know ;-)

Of course, a more powerful machine is unlikely to encounter the time out. My target machine is my much loved Acer Ferrari One Netbook – the AMD L310 dual core, 64-bit wonder that I now carry by my side always. This machine is totally awesome, and with 4GB RAM installed, it can do a hell of a lot despite its diminutive size.

While typing the above, the config wizard has now completed the re-run of step 8 and has just finished successfully. I’m looking at the default SharePoint site running in IE8. Memory usage is quite high at 3.46GB, but after the default site creation (which took a while) performance navigating around the site is ok.

Now to get into the new VS2010 SharePoint devenv for some fun and games.

VS 2010 Beta 2: SharePoint gets a proper dev tool!

paulfo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:04:12 GMT

VS2010 beta 2 has been announced at the SharePoint Conference. Details are available here and if you have an MSDN subscription you can download it now!

Key for me is the availability of the SharePoint project templates. These enable you to build everything from a web part or a workflow, to a Site Definition – all from inside my favourite IDE.

More worked examples coming soon!

The other news is that there are now three versions of VS2010, <quote>:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN – for team development; Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN - for developers building high quality, scalable apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN – for basic development <who does that? />

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AND YOU GET MSDN WITH YOUR VS EDITION

AND WITH EACH YOU GET TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER, plus some free hours on Windows Azure.

Now when you put all of that together that is totally awesome value – you get THE dev tool, all the docs and product licenses for testing and building on the MS platform (MSDN), and Team foundation server which gives you the robust ALM solution. Amazing.

When can you get all this goodness. By March 22nd people. But be clever and keep your current MSDN subscription live and take advantage of the ‘Ultimate Offer’ to upgrade to VS 2008 Developer if running below, and then get upgraded to VS2010 Ultimate!! Details as they’re released here.

But there is more! Yes, marketing have come up with a new logo – woooooo