SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources

If you didn’t notice, MSDN went live with a special SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Center last week. There’s a ton of great information here… all public before the first public beta is even available for download (note: Beta 2 will be publically available in November).

Those legacy folk all heard the complaints about the quality & quantity of the developer documentation for the last release of SharePoint (WSS v3.0 & MOSS 2007). The documentation team took the feedback to heart. While the criticism was justified early on, they worked very hard and engaged many people outside of Microsoft to help with the documentation. People like me were asked to write articles & screencasts on things we thought were missing (here’s a list of my contributions).

This time around they doubled down. Early on, going back to 2008, I recall talking to some of the guys on the MSDN side responsible for SharePoint like Randall Isenhour & AJ May who were adamant about having a much better story when the first public beta for SharePoint 2010 was available. Man… I never expected THIS much stuff! Check out what’s on the developer center already!

SharePoint 2010 Deprecated Types & Methods
What’s new in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (formerly known as WSS)
What’s new in SharePoint Server 2010
SharePoint 2010 SDK (MSF2010 & SPS2010)
SharePoint 2010 Developer Eval Guide Walkthrough

Check out what Andrew May put on his blog recently too! He’s asking if you want to have your code samples integrated into the SDK! How’s that for being open!

In my opinion, the SharePoint MSDN guys get two thumbs up for their work thus far… and we can only expect to get even more great stuff!

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posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 10:10 AM

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# re: SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources 11/2/2009 9:04 PM John Holliday

I have to agree. Randall, AJ etc. have really done an outstanding job this time around. I'm particularly impressed by the organization of information in the SDK, with appropriate detail added to the background material. It's really easy to come up to speed on the important points and to get back into context quickly via the included scenarios. Not a bad job with the diagrams, either.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources 1/13/2010 10:49 PM Mike Smith

Andrew,

Do you know of an updated version of "code.msdn.microsoft.com/sps2010deprecated"? Those files have the namespace and the method, but not the class names. That makes them kind of useless.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources 1/14/2010 11:08 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

Mike-
I have no involvement in that project.

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