Evolutions in the SharePoint Platform for Developers

SharePoint 2007 grew in leaps and bounds over SharePoint 2003 and became recognized as a versatile and powerful development platform, but there were still limitations in the areas of security, portability, performance, reliability, and features. With SharePoint 2010, the bar has been raised yet again. The latest iteration of the SharePoint platform has too many enhancements to cover in a single chapter, but some of the highlights are covered in this section, along with a summary of enhancements in Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

SharePoint 2010 provides a powerful new client object model that is formally defined as the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Managed Client Object Model, or simply ...

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