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Introduction to SharePoint 2010
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Information about tools to integrate with Silverlight, LINQ, and BCS
- New features in social computing
- New features in ECM
- New features in Search
- New features in SharePoint Workspace
- New Features in SharePoint Online
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 introduces a lot of new functionality that you need to understand to write better applications on the platform. Beyond increasing the new features in each of the SharePoint workloads, such as collaboration or portal, Microsoft has added entirely new products to the SharePoint family, including the acquired FAST technologies for Enterprise Search and the PerformancePoint services that enhance SharePoint's business intelligence (BI) capabilities. With these new additions, the surface area of SharePoint has doubled, so this chapter quickly introduces the new sets of features in SharePoint and the Office client.
WHAT'S NEW IN THE SHAREPOINT PLATFORM AND TOOLS
SharePoint, as a development platform, has matured over time from server APIs to web services to now supporting the latest developer technologies, such as Silverlight, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and REST APIs. Developers who build on the SharePoint platform will find some very welcome additions to the platform, which users have been requesting for a number of years, such as the ability to develop and test on client operating systems, including Windows Vista and Windows 7. You no longer need to do remote development ...
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