Session I presented at the SharePoint User Group in London in January 2010

1. Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 Ben Robb MVP, SharePoint Server CTO, cScape Ltd

2. Quiz How many of you love using SharePoint Designer 2007 to build their applications? What are the pain points you have seen using SPD 2007? Unstable Difficult to package and deploy applications built in SPD Doesn’t fit into an ALM process Gives too much power to the users Too many actions can only be done in the browser Messes with your HTML Slow Unstable

3. Evolution of SharePoint Designer Note: SharePoint Designer 2010 is not compatible with SharePoint 2007

4. How do you get SharePoint Designer 2010? You will be able to get it for FREE (like the current version) www.microsoft.com/spd Public beta out now

7. IT Devs and Pros to prototype solutions quickly

9. 9. New User Experience with Summary Pages, Ribbon and quick launch navigation

10. 8. Create SharePoint Content Lists, Pages, Subsites etc

11. 7. Configure Site Security

12. Site Metadata CustomizationsSecurity Demo

13. 6. Create New Content Types and attach to Lists directly

14. 5. Create Site Assets to store files needed for the site

15. 4. XSLT List View Web Parts… Everywhere! Easily manipulated in SPD and through the browser

16. Managing Data Demo

17. 3. Connect to Data Sources outside of SharePoint

18. 2. Create Business Connectivity Services External Content Types

19. Connecting to External Data Demo

20. 1. Create Powerful Reusable Workflows List Workflows Reusable Workflows Site Workflows

21. Workflows Demo

22. 0. Not really SPD

24. Questions?