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Two interesting sessions at the Dutch Information Worker User Group event @ Wortell this time.

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Today and tomorrow I will be present at the SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam. This 2 day event is kind of a wrap up of the content that is presented earlier in Las Vegas. Some interesting sessions attended already.

To follow the content and things that happening at the conference you can follow me on twitter or follow the #SPC10 search.

Via Wouter van Vugt:

“May I present the SharePoint Dev Tools. Version beta 1 is ready for your approval. And I believe it will exceed your expectation! Some of the exciting features that you find within this advanced toolset are summed up below. You can go over to the project site and download the beta.

One of the first areas that has been extended is deployment. Out of the box Visual Studio 2010 is capable of retracting / redeploying your solution packages. The DevTools provide X-Copy deployment and solution upgrades on top of that. Along with many other deployment steps you have the tools you need to lower the round-trip time for small changes in your codebase. Go to the site and check out the video!

Next are some of the very exciting templates that you can use. One that I am particularly happy with is the Sandboxed Visual Web Part. This template allows you full visual design of a Web Part, while allowing it to be deployed into the solution sandbox (which does not allow ASCX files to be deployed). With SharePoint Dev Tools you can, and in a totally supported way! Also don't forget the Linq To SharePoint integrated template. Just change one XML file and get your proxies regenerated immediately. No need to leave your comfort zone. Think of it as an Office Business Application for SharePoint Developers, and SDBA J.

Finally there are numerous enhancements to the Visual Studio environment. For instance, you can find the SharePoint tab on the Add Reference dialog. Prime Visual Studio real-estate!”

More information here

After the news about the .Net Facebook SDK, LinkedIn has released an API to integrate LinkedIn in your own applications. LinkedIn uses OAuth to authenticate.

“The LinkedIn API utilizes OAuth as its authentication method. OAuth is a standard model for negotiating developer authorization  and granting access on behalf of specific users for performing API requests. One of OAuth's strengths are the many third party and open source libraries that exist, allowing developers to authenticate with LinkedIn quickly and in a similar manner to how they may authenticate with services like Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Netflix.”

More info: http://developer.linkedin.com/

The Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 has been released on Codeplex. In my opinion, the most interesting addition is the BusyIndicator control, compatible with RIA services.

Check out the demo here.

via [Silverlight blog]:

“Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and desktop. These powerful new features offer developers significant benefits in rapidly creating rich software experiences, and include:

· Enhancements to Silverlight out-of-browser capabilities which enable high quality application experiences on the desktop;
· Advancements in business application development, including access to other Microsoft products like SharePoint 2010, Office, and Internet Information Services (IIS);
· The most amazing HD-quality video experiences on the Web with native multicast and offline DRM support.”

Get it here!

It’s available for msdn subscribers, the long awaited SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 beta and SharePoint Server 2010 beta!

Also Office 2010 client, Visio and SharePoint designer 2010 are available, so let the fun begin (or continue)!!

Via: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-the-new-microsoft-sdk-for-facebook-platform/

“Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform their imagination into next generation application experiences. We look forward to seeing the creative applications that developers will create for Facebook that will open up new avenues for users to share and connect with their friends.”