Chris Johnson at Microsoft just blogged about some very cool scripts in a package you can now download from Microsoft that will quickly get you going in developing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7.

Going to [SharePoint Connections next week in Las Vegas](http://www.devconnections.com/shows/FALL2010SP/default.asp?s=154? No? Well, are you a SharePoint person that's going to be in the greater Vegas area?

It was a quick trip for me, but nice to see old friends and meet new people doing cool stuff around SharePoint 2010.

In a few recent posts I blogged about how you handle events using the commanding framework when someone clicks a button or another control in the SharePoint 2010 ribbon as well as how you can implement this using a custom page component.

In some of the recent work I've been doing around the SharePoint ribbon, specifically when diving into the way how the commanding works, I noticed the SharePoint SDK talks about two types of commands: global and focused commands.

Today we (www.CriticalPathTraining.com) is announcing the release of three new classes designed for the end user, site collection administrator and power user:

A visual how to I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The screencast, Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data with the .

In my previous post I talked about how you implement the events when a user clicks on a button or other control in the ribbon.

The SharePoint SDK contains a good bit of information on how the customize the ribbon. Adding / replacing / removing controls to / from the ribbon is pretty straightforward although you have to get hip to writing a lot of XML (big deal… you're a SharePoint developer so you're used to it)!

When creating your own customizations for the SharePoint ribbon, a common task is to create a custom group for a new or existing tab in the ribbon.