SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 is now generally available!
In case you missed it, Microsoft announced the general availability for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. Now anyone can download, install and test it out! Remember this is beta software so things will likely break and you’ll also have a few extra things you’ll have to do to get it installed and working. Here are some posts to help you out installing the bits: SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download

I’ll be presenting at SPTechCon in San Francisco, CA (February 10-12, 2010)
Another SharePoint Technology Conference will be held next February in San Francisco, CA. Fellow Critical Path Training co-founder Ted Pattison is one oft he two keynote speakers. I will also be presenting two sessions at this show: What’s New for Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010In this session, attendees will learn what improvements Microsoft made to SharePoint Server 2010 for hosting content-centric sites, including one-cli

SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Small bug in VS2010 Beta 2 SharePoint Tools (that’s fixed i
I ran into this doing a few code samples for SharePoint 2010 using the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 SharePoint tools. Passing it along as it threw me for a loop when I first saw it. First, in case you aren’t aware, the SharePoint “things” you add to a project in Visual Studio 2010 are called SharePoint Items (SPI’s). This includes things like Web Parts, Visual Web Parts, Content Types, etc. Basically anything that has a Item Template in Visual Studio 2010 is is a SPI. So what’s the issue? Well, in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, the SharePoint tools make the assumption that if you don’t have any SPI’s in the project, even if it is a SharePoint project, it will not pac

SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name!
OK, so technically it isn’t the official name, but we’re finally seeing some semblence of a name. As seasoned SharePoint developers know, you do a lot of work inside this nested location on the file system. In the two most current versions of SharePoint it was: SharePoint 2007 – c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12 SharePoint 2010 – c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14 We all called it by various names. Some called them the ‘12 Hive’ or ‘14 Hive’ (which I never liked or understood since it had absolutely nothing to do with the registry

FYI – Interesting Little Bug in VS 2010 Beta 2 when working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlig
I’ve been struggling trying to work with the new SharePoint 2010 Silverlight client object model on a new environment I setup. This has SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2… nothing special, that’s it (along with the dependencies such as SQL Server and everything they require). To work with the Silverlight client object model you have to add two references to your Silverlight project. These two assemblies (Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll & Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.Runtime.dll). These can be found in the [..]\1