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I was really frustrated at first with the way that SharePoint is portrayed in Visual Studio 2010.

I finally said, woah there, back up, what is SharePoint?

It's kind of taken for granted that everyone in the dev community knows what every Microsoft product actually does. While that is fair for Word and Excel (at least to me) it doesn't go without saying that we all know what OneNote or SharePoint do. I thought at first that it was yet another programing tool to be added to ASP, XAML, RIA Services, SilverLight .....

This video does a great job of delineating SharePoint as well as explaining how and why it is complimented by Silverlight and Visual Studio. If I weren't looking for work and actively browsing job boards where I'm confronted by SharePoint every 9.5 minutes I might have never known (or cared) what SharePoint does.

If you're reading this instead of watching the video. SharePoint is an Intranet management system that is integrated into Office products. It's not exactly CRM though it could be used as a hyper capable CRM solution and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts the functions for CRM are built in.

Yeah it was a WMV download, I had to switch to MS machine to watch it.

Now, why is there only edit reply quote and no delete button?

Okay I am the only one who doesn't have the Template for the LAB on my installation of VS 2010? I have Silverlight Application and Silverlight Class, but no Silverlight Business Application template.

I've looked everywhere in the templates, online templates, gone to help/update and nothing.

Mine is a brand new installation. Did this template go away? Can I get it somewhere?