By Chris R. Chapman at December 10, 2009 23:56
Filed Under: .net, sharepoint2010, skills

Earlier this month (Dec 2/09) the Director/Product Manager for SharePoint, Arpan Shah, posted a wealth of resources on his blog to aid in ramping up on the new platform.  I encourage going over and taking a look – and add his feed to your aggregator.  Here are some of my favourites:

White Papers – The closest thing to “books” before the release next year:

SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide 
SharePoint 2010 Professional Developers Evaluation Guide 
SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide for IT Professionals
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Scenarios

When to use ASP.NET vs. SharePoint:

SharePoint Server 2010 as an Application Development Platform 
SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform

For the Visual Learners: 

Learning Snack for Developers: Developing solutions with SharePoint 2010

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Getting Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

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Hands-on-Labs (HOL) Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 C# & VB.NET – These are quite good as they get you the fundamentals in a follow-along-with-me format.

Admins – We Got You Covered, Too:

Check out the IT Pro 2010 video & top features
Walk through the
Learning snack for IT professionals: Experiencing the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 user interface 
Walk through
Learning snack for IT professionals: Managing and troubleshooting with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 
Read the
SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide for IT Professionals 
Take a look at the training and videos @
http://www.mssharepointitpro.com

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I am a Toronto-based software consultant specializing in SharePoint, .NET technologies and agile/iterative/lean software project management practices.

I am also a former Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Consultant with experience providing enterprise customers with subject matter expertise for planning and deploying SharePoint as well as .NET application development best practices.  I am MCAD certified (2006) and earned my Professional Scrum Master I certification in late September 2010, having previously earned my Certified Scrum Master certification in 2006. (What's the difference?)