Hi all,

So I’m on the SP2010 MS Ignite training in Dublin. The course is a beta but its providing useful. Here’s some observations:

• STSADM for the most part replaced by Powershell. Aim is that STSADM will be deprecated in the next versions of Sharepoint. Powershell specific sharepoint version exists and users can create scriptlets for SP manipulation.
• We now have a 14 Hive. Bye bye 12!
• VS2010 is running on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V. 8GB Ram and it runs ‘ok’. VS2010 is fickle and crashes a lot. Our laptops will struggle. Not sure even a central dev server will cut it.
• New facility for mapped folders within VS2010, i.e. a mapped images folder that maps directly to the 14 hive images
• Contents=1 still works for webpart maintenance page
• Support for Visual Webparts (ascx files) as a project type.
• Great new facility within VS2010 for managing features & solution packages. Very easy to move features about. Need to find out if this is scriptable. Best thing I’ve seen so far.
• SharePoint explorer within VS2010 looks ok. Read only view of local sharepoint installs only. Currently available free tool SP Explorer is better than this but you can knacker your SP environment with it.
• WebTemplates are replacing Site Templates. All WSP based. Can be exported and brought back into VS2010 & customised. I.e user creates site, exports into VS2010 and boom, rebuilability (new word!)
• Features now have versions and dependencies (one level deep). With versions you can specify what gets upgraded.  We’ll need practice with this one..
• We can target event receivers against the top level site ‘RootWeb Only’. Possibility that a ‘Child Web Only’ attribute will be available in RTM version
• Can also target event receivers againts specific lists.
• Workflows can now be associated to sites.
• Features now have a property bag
• Developer dashboard is good. At the moment it can only be turned on/off via code (PS or c#)
• SharePoint can toggle UI Versions. Version 3 is the ‘classic’ look. Version 4 is the ‘ribbon’
• Webtemplates are stored in the solution gallery. Site Template Gellery is gone.
• Solution Sandbox stores content within the content db. I suspect this may use SQL Server 2008’s disk based storage.
• Solutions now have a ‘resource point’ system. Limits can be assigned to ensure that a solution doesnt hog resources.
• We can specify that solutions can be upgraded.
• New events exist, i.e. site added

Davey