I just came across an excellent video demonstrating the new sharepoint development environment supported by Visual Studio 2010.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Sharepoint-Development-with-Visual-Studio-2010/
Most notable is that we should finally be able to build, debug, and deploy sharepoint artifacts (web parts etc) as easily as a simple web application. Here are the highlights:
1) Extended Server Explorer - enables a detailed hierarchical view of a sharepoint instance (similar to the functionality provided for a SQL Server instance) allowing you to view the currently deployed webparts, lists etc. There are also other related enhancements like the Package View - similar to solution View but detailing the deployment structure of a solution.
2) Project Template Support - additional template types specific to sharepoint. You no longer have to figure out what a sharepoint solution needs - VS does that work for you.
3) Deployment enhancements - like what you may have seen with Biztalk deployment and also VS for Database deployment - one-click deployment experience. This is a huge step above the seemingly endless mess of manual intervention (and learning) currently involved.
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