SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Launches Are Final
The much anticipated launch date for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 has been set for May 12 -- with a RTM date of April. If you have attended a SharePoint Saturday event lately then you are aware of many of the new features. On a side note, I remember how great it was when MOSS 2007 (on WSS 3.0) was released -- it was SOOOO much better. One thing I tired of really quickly, however, were all of the books, articles, blogs and training courses that explained "this is how it was done in SPS 2003, but this is how you do it in MOSS 2007" or "this is what it is now called" or whatever. I have made it my personal intent to not go there. Not that I'm not a fan of MOSS 2007. I was with it from the beginning and I'm still rolling out MOSS 2007 projects today. I'm a huge fan. However, for the sake of clarity, I will focus on SPF4 and SPS2010 exclusively on this blog. My logic is that there are going to be many folks who are new to SharePoint this release. That is my audience. I'm guessing that they don't care how it was done before. And, by the way, I'm even more excited about SharePoint 2010 than I was MOSS 2007!
The other date that I'm really excited about is April 12 -- the official launch date of Visual Studio 2010. Hopefully you made it (or will soon make it) to one of the MSDN Live events! They only scratch the surface of what you can do with SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010, but it is enough to get you excited. I have been playing with the beta release for a while now. I hardly open Visual Studio 2008 any more.
Speaking of which, I will be showing some SharePoint 2010 development at the Western Kentucky .NET Users Group on March 11. If you are in the Murray State area, please come check it out!
