The first day of the SharePoint Conference 2009 was a busy one here is a wrap up of the keynotes for the day from Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper.

SharePoint 2010 Keynote Summary:

• Public beta in November: SharePoint Server, SharePoint Workspace (formaly known as Groove)
• RTM will be in the first half of 2010
• LINQ replaces CAML
• A new Client object model
• “Sandboxed” solutions
• Access Services for SharePoint allow development of solutions in Acess for publishing to sharePoint.
• Standards support for XHTML, WCAG, REST.
• Windows 7 and Vista become SharePoint development platforms.
• Visual Studio 2010 download today from MSDN
• SharePoint Designer gets the Ribbon - SP Designer really feel like a better product now.
• SharePoint gets the Ribbon - I have been using this for the last few months and am still not really sure if was the right way to go.

Thom Rizzo’s Keynote summary:

• External Lists: make data available from inside SharePoint.
• Map data into apps: like Outlook and SharePoint Workspace.
• Visual web part design.
• Build, Package, and Deploy from Visual Studio.
• Developer Dashboard: provides a debugging tool that provides information about the callstack.
• Sandboxed Solutions: allow targeting a site collection to isolate code within a SharePoint site collection.
• SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio: both now read and write the same WSPs
• Workflow development: is much better and intutive in the control.
• Silverlight: the new content editor? I will be using more and more Sliverlight contoles moving forward.
• The Ribbon: provides the Office 2007/2010 UI inside SharePoint

SharePoint Online

Sandboxed solutions make cloud development a reality:

1. Kraft consolidated more than 200 websites onto SharePoint and saved over $2M per year in hosting.
2. Volvo deploys SharePoint in 70 markets and 36 languages.