Office 2010 Technical Preview

I've been invited to participate in the Technical Preview, so I'll be posting very little until the public beta in October. I'll post relevant class reference information, since the object model has been publicly released. See you soon!

InfoPath 2010 - What's New?

Getting Started
Getting Started has moved to the Backstage > New. Some of the templates available are SharePoint List, SharePoint Document Library (editform.aspx, newform.aspx, etc. forms) and Document Information Panel. We could build these before, but only from other applications.

The description of the SharePoint List template is "Start with the default SharePoint list form, create rules, and modify form layout and formatting. Users fill out the form when working with items in the Sharepoint list."

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peeks - Developers

Visual Studio 2010 Sharepoint Tools
This is an equivalent product to the VSeWSS. Here are the tools:

• Import VSeWSS Project
• Import Reusable Workflow
• List Definition
• Sequential Workflow
• Content Type
• BDC Model (Application Definition)
• Module
• Empty Project
• Event Receiver
• State Machine Workflow
• Import SharePoint Solution Package
• Visual Web Part

VS 2010 Server Explorer can drill-down into sites with "Folder List"-like structure. You can see lists, libraries, etc. exactly like the Folder List in SharePoint Designer. The VS Debugger can now attach to a Sharepoint site, and you can establish breakpoints in your aspx runtime. A demonstration showed a webpart which, when viewed, transferred control back to Visual Studio and stopped execution at the breakpoint!

Also, a Developer Dashboard control is on the SharePoint pages (an icon) which refreshed the page and displayed a pane containing server information, database query statistics, event reports, web part rendering times, etc. I would imagine that this control is only available if debugging is enabled in the web.config file.

Client OM
A Client Object Model is provided as an abstraction into client-side processing functions (AJAX, JavaScript, Silverlight, etc.). Part of this library is a ClientContext datatype, which presumably keeps track of the site as it is manipulated by client-side functions. A ClientContext.ExecuteQuery method was shown to query a database (in a Silverlight web part) based on infomation kept in the client.