Download SharePoint 2010 (RC) VS Extensibility Projects The SharePoint & Office Developer & Platform Evangelism Team has just released SharePoint 2010 Extensbility Projects on the MSDN Code Gallery site. They are provided three projects that you can use to augment your SharePoint 2010 development efforts. The three projects leverage the ...[Read More]

UPDATE: The Microsoft SharePoint Product Group has just announced this on their blog, SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch. As the Microsoft Office product development group announced on their blog, that starting today if you purchase and activate Office 2007 you will be able to download Office 2010 at no additional cost when it becomes avail ...[Read More]

UPDATE: On May 11, 2010 the SharePoint 2010 RTM Virtual Machine was released by Microsoft.  This is the updated version that has been released to the public!   The SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine aka 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is now available for everyone!  This is one day after Microsoft released ...[Read More]

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners.  The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today.  Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details!   Here’s hoping the SharePoint Community at large will have acc ...[Read More]

UPDATE: Check out Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig:  Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Inst ...[Read More]

Kurt DelBene just made it official today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that Microsoft is unveiling the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010 – source MS Press Pass.  The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog has also made it official ...[Read More]

Quick post:  Windows 7 has been officially been released today, and it brings lots of features.    If weren't able to attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 or keep up with twitter, then you might have missed that SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Windows 7.  This approach is obviously recommended for Developers and not for production.   Alp ...[Read More]

Things have been pretty hectic at the SharePoint Conference 2009 with all the new changes and enchancements that are coming.  It's been an amazing couple of days meeting so many of those part of the SharePoint Community.   From Steve Balmer's keynote we learned that the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta will be available in November 2009.   This is ...[Read More]

Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft.  More then its' typical for pre-beta.  With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest.  Sure there are huge improve ...[Read More]

If you aren't following us on twitter, here are some of the latest updates from the SharePoint Community: Jan Tielen writes on how to Determine the URL of SharePoint Web Services using jQuery/Javascript Learn how to step by step Rename your MOSS installed virtual machine (VPC / VMWare) Chris O'Brien speaks of SharePoint Optimization, BLOB c ...[Read More]