Yesterday at the Sharepoint Conference keynote Microsoft has shared lots of interesting news about the future Sharepoint 2010 release (Beta version in November, official release for the first half of 2010). Lots of cool things are ready and I recommend to read this post that comes directly from the Team.
As a developer perspective, with Visual Studio 2010 you’ll have lots of new “facilities” for developing with Sharepoint 2010 (Project Templates etc) and Sharepoint Designer will be improved (and free again). A new Business Data Catalog engine (now renamed as Business Connectivity Service) will also be available (with CRUD operations and integration with Visual Studio 2010 now…).
Seems that we’ll have also LINQ for Sharepoint and possibility to design Sharepoint workflows also with Visio… wow :)
For the end user feature, I want to mention here also my “hottest” topic:
- Office Web Apps integration
- Sharepoint Mobile Access improved (I hope not only on Windows Mobile…)
- Document Management improved
- Business Intelligence improvements: you’ll have Performanpoint Services integration and also the integration of the “Gemini” project (now officially called SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint). This is a powerful new in memory database technology that lets Excel and Excel Services users navigate massive amounts of information without having to create or edit an OLAP cube. I think it will be really really a powerful feature…
Can’t wait to have the first bits on my hands… :)
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