Again with so much information coming out the only way forward is another list (maybe I should be sticking these posts in some sort of web enabled collaboration platform?).

• First a biggee (to me anyway) SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Windows 7 (and 64 bit Vista) for development purposes. There will be a couple of hacks to allow installation of the beta but apparently these will be gone by RTM. According to Microsoft stand who helped develop this he reckoned you would need 4GB of RAM to run an environment including SharePoint, Office suite, SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2010
• Visual Studio 2010 (the beta is released this week) is much more supportive of SharePoint projects:
• There are twelve or so projects specifically for SharePoint ranging from empty through site, workflow etc
• One touch deployment and debugging! Click the debug button Visual Studio packages, deploys to test, activates features and even opens a browser window!
• And of course it creates its own Features and WSPs no more batch file writing
• Developer Dashboard is actually SharePoint basically it opens a window beneath the SharePoint site and gives you every stat you could think of load times of web parts, SQL queries, call stack etc.
• One of the templates is a Visual Web Part no more coding the UI!
• SharePoint Designer 2010 has much enhanced (or you may think more dangerous functionality) including:
  • Creation of dynamic lists from SQL sources; these can include Create, Read, Update and Delete functionality surfaced in SharePoint
  • Workflows are no longer limited to a single list abut can have their scope set to the web application level making them reusable (hurray!)
  • Workflows and even sites can be exported as packages and imported to Visual Studio 2010 which has a couple of specialist project types to handle this.
  • Simple workflows designed in Visio 2010 can be imported directly into SharePoint Designer
  • SharePoint Designer can export workflow diagrams to Visio 2010

I’m sure there was more,I’ll post when it bubbles up into my consciousness.

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