SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation

I've been asked to study the new SharePoint Technical Preview documents released 7/13/09 from Microsoft. Officially called SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation, the download is available here. Microsoft is officially silent about SharePoint 2010, until a Beta is available in October.

A new (albeit sparse) MSDN branch for Sppt 2010 has been created here.
Sppt = SharePoint Product and Technologies.

The download released Monday is a .zip archive of 4 files:

• ReadMe.txt
• Customizing the Ribbon in Windows SharePoint Services 14.pdf
• Customizing the Ribbon in Windows SharePoint Services 14.xps
• SPPT2010TP.chm

There is much legal text in these documents prohibiting the reproduction of the material. I'll try to summarize the contained information, so download these yourself to be informed.

ReadMe.txt
The ReadMe file is helpful for opening .chm content. Compiled HTML (.chm) is a handy format for Help applications, but contains a vulnerability.

Customizing the Ribbon in Windows SharePoint Services 14.[extension]
Wss 14 will contain an Office Ribbon. The Office Ribbon will be customizable using Open XML (RibbonX) using the same model that Office 2007 customizations are made (ribbon > tabs > tab > group > control). These customizations are deployed as features, and pretty similarly to how a developer would customize a new Site Settings link.

Importantly, deployment of features can now be performed using PowerShell. New commandlets are Install-SPFeature, Enable-SPFeature, and (presumably) others.

SPPT2010TP.chm
This self-proclaimed "SDK" is a help file with the new Sharepoint namespaces, arranged alphabetically. This is a lot of information, and I'll commence to finding all the new stuff/good stuff.


On another note, there is new Office 2010 material at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010 . Of mention are Groove SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Web Applications.