Download the Visual Studio 2010 beta and check out the SharePoint 2010 walkthroughs and how to’s here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx
Walkthroughs
- Add Feature Event Receivers
- Create a Custom Field, Content Type, List Definition, and List Instance
- Create a Site Definition Project
- Import a SharePoint Designer Reusable Workflow into Visual Studio 2010
- Import Items from an Existing SharePoint Site
- Creating a Web Part for SharePoint
- Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer
- Create a Custom Site Workflow Activity
- Creating a Workflow with Association and Initiation Forms
- Creating and Debugging a SharePoint Workflow Solution
- Add an Application Page to a Workflow
- Creating an Application Page
- Creating an External List in SharePoint List by Using Business Data
- Deploying a Project Task List Definition
How To…
- Add and Remove Features to a Package by Using the Package Designer
- Add or Remove SharePoint Connections
- Create a BDC Model
- Create an Event Receiver
- Customize a SharePoint Feature
The Catch
What’s the catch? The SharePoint development tools included in Visual Studio 2010 are exclusively for SharePoint 2010. What can you use to accelerate your SharePoint 2007 development today? Check out WSPBuilder. WSPBuilder is an open-source tool and add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that not only automates a lot of the manual tasks of creating a SharePoint solution package (WSP file), but also comes with lots of Visual Studio templates for SharePoint artifacts, like web parts, features, content types, etc…. There’s a great WSPBuilder walkthrough by Tobias Zimmergren here.
Then. look at SharePoint Solution Installer. SharePoint Solution Installer will take any WSP package and wrap it in a very friendly wizard interface. Next, next, next, and the WSP you created using WSPBuilder is deployed to the entire SharePoint farm.