Excellent Article on Developing Publishing Websites using MOSS 2007 by Andrew Connell

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857096.aspx

SharePoint & office 2010 Beta Available for download

MSDN Subscribers can now download SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 beta versions.

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Productivity Tools - Visual Web Parts

As a SharePoint Developer and architect over the last two years I have heard a number of developers complain about the difficulty developing web parts the tranditional manner (i.e. Overriden CreateChildControls() ) due to the lack of visual designers.

Developers have achieved productivity gains by wrapping  ASP.NET user controls within the web part class using the LoadControl() method, but it did create a lot of trouble with deployment and packaging etc.
Guess what,Visual Studio 2010 ships with a new project template called the Visual WebPart Project which essential is the same setup as above but with visual studio managing all deployment and packaging concerns.
Now with single a Ctrl + F5 will deploy all of the above to your SharePoint Farm.

I will soon write about the much talked about "Developer Dashboard Feature" within SharePoint 2010 which in combination with Visual WebParts will provide tons of developer productivity.

Starting to Bounce

Hi Guys,
After months of false starts at blogging , here we go (F5)

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