Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform

SharePoint 2010 has many new developer-oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. This session is a lap around SharePoint 2010 for developers providing a brief look and code based demos of the major new features in building user interfaces, building on the data platform and in general programmability.

This session is presented by Steve Fox.

Steve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office and SharePoint development. He is a customer-facing Sr. Evangelism Manager and regularly speaks to developers about Office and SharePoint development. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (WROX) and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (WROX).