Assembly Development vs Artifact Development in SharePoint / Usage of SharePoint Designer in Production

This has been a hot topic for me recently. This article explains how SharePoint Designer can and should be used in a production environment by explaining Assembly Development vs Artifact Development or "Content" Development.

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx

Some key points:
- Content Developers can use SharePoint Designer to create and modify content

- Content Developers have the ability to modify the existing production environment and conduct publication using a content management path to the production Web Farm.

- The authoring environment can exist within the production environment

- From a team perspective, the shared authoring environment is more effective than individually separate authoring environments.

- SharePoint Designer artifacts do not need to be integrated with enterprise source control

- Enterprise source control (such as Team Foundation Server) should be used strictly for assembly development in a team environment, while the effort to integrate content management items into source control is not a supported process.

- Attempts to integrate items into enterprise source control that are considered SharePoint Designer content items and part of a content development require extensive workarounds involving manual processes and procedures.


"For content design and publication, a single authoring environment - in which multiple content developers can use SharePoint Designer to create and publish content - can simplify time spent in migrating content artifacts from separate environments into a production environment.

Useful SharePoint 2010 Links

Just sharing some handy SharePoint 2010 links...

Microsoft SharePoint Product Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/

Building a SharePoint 2010 Development machine
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/sp2010/Building+a+SharePoint+2010+Development+machine


SharePoint 2010 Demo Videos (Note: HUGE FILES)
Overview:
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/msstudios/0906/1001251/1001251_SharePoint2010_Overview_SneakPeek_Rizzo_mobile.wmv

For Developers:
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/msstudios/0906/1001251/1001251_SharePoint_SneakPeek_For_Developers_Andrew_mobile.wmv

For IT Pro's:
http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/msstudios/0906/1001251/1001251_SharePoint_SneakPeek_For_IT_Professionals_Riley_mobile.wmv


SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Video
http://edge.technet.com/Media/SharePoint-2010-Central-Administration/



Compare SharePoint Editions
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx

Planning and architecture for SharePoint Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261834.aspx

Deployment for SharePoint Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262957.aspx

Operations for SharePoint Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262289.aspx

Technical reference for SharePoint Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262798.aspx


SharePoint 2010 Top 10 Features and Resources
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=267


Upgrading Features in SharePoint 2010
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2010/08/08/upgrading-features-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

The Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management ECM Cheat Sheet
http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2010/08/the-ultimate-sharepoint-2010-enterprise-content-management-ecm-cheat-sheet.html

Wiki FAQs with SharePoint 2010
http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=404

SharePoint 2010 Developer - Courses you need to watch!

Channel 9 - SharePoint 2010 Developer

Units in this course

Getting Started with SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010
UI Enhancements
Lists and Schemss
LINQ to SharePoint
Client Object Model
Workflow
Services Architecture
Accessing External Data
Enterprise Content Management
Extending Search
PerformancePoint Services
Sandboxed Solutions

Download the SharePoint 2010 VHD

Via Paul Stubbs: Download the SharePoint 2010 VHD

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2&displaylang=en

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

In order to run this demo you will need the following: - Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled. - Drive Formatting: NTFS - Processor: Intel VT or AMD-V capable - RAM: 8 GB or more recommended - Hard disk space required for install: 50 GB

Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010

Check out the latest Operating System Requirements for SharePoint 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx

Announcement:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/01/22/operating-system-requirements-of-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Notes:

To make developing for SharePoint 2010 easier, it is possible to install SharePoint on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7. Note that running production environments on these OSes are not supported and it will not be possible to upgrade deployments running on client versions of Windows to future versions of SharePoint. Instructions on installing SharePoint 2010 on client versions of Windows are a bit more involved and we recommend reading the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx.