What developer features excite you the most for WSS 4.0 / SharePoint 2010? [closed]

Answer 1

The sandbox.. being able to deploy custom code to SharePoint Online and other hosted solutions will skyrocket SharePoint usage

Answer 2

Correlation ID's for errors

Small change, but lets you search the logs folder for a correlation ID A correlation ID for errors. You can use this ID to view the error in the Logs folder.

Answer 3

They say they've streamlined the performance so I'm anxious to see the results of that. I don't know a user or developer who enjoys using SharePoint. Prior to 2010 it's the most bloated website I've ever used.

Answer 4

Dev tools support

SharePoint is now a first class citizen in Visual Studio. You can throw away WSP Builder and Sharepoint Manager, both great tools for SP2007

Answer 5

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) - In MOSS it was known as BDC - Ability not only to read the data from External data Store, but to write back. As show in the demo video there will be a List of type for External Data, that will let you to connect External data store and automatically the Add/Edit form gets rendered.

Answer 6

Ability to add Custom List Forms for the List using the InfoPath. Also you can Specify the validation logic for the Fields.