Thank you to everyone who came out to the Western North Carolina .NET and SharePoint user group meeting earlier this week. The fact that we all made it out with tropical storm Ida challenging us showed a lot of dedication and excitement for the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. Here is the presentation for future reference: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/SharePointBeacon/Presentations/Overview%20of%20SharePoint%202010%20Development.pptx
To continue learning about SharePoint 2010 I recommend that you look into these free resources:
I will be updating this post soon to answer some of the additional questions that came from the meeting. Stay tuned!
-Yvonne M. Harryman
Updated 11/18
Question: Is Groove going away?
No just the name is changing to SharePoint Workspace. There is going to be a workspace which integrates with SharePoint 2010 and does not require Groove servers. This version will allow you to work with your SharePoint 2010 content offline. But SharePoint Workspace will also have the capability to work without SharePoint at all for the peer-to-peer use of it versus client/server.
Think of it now as a "2 in 1 product"
My very first blog was discussing best practices around disposing of SharePoint Services Objects: http://yvonneharryman.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/ . Memory leaks caused by objects not disposed can be very tricky to catch and require good code reviews. Now Microsoft is offering a tool to help you find objects that are not being disposed of. This tool can be found at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck.
The tool is not perfect but it will do most of the grunt work for you to figure out if memory leaks are in fact in your code. One situation you might run into is a potential false positive. An additional resource I have used to help me in that situation is the following blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/12/05/disposing-spweb-and-spsite-objects.aspx
This tool is meant to be used by developers and should not be installed on production machines as I understand it there is no formal support provided.
The Community Technology Preview release for Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3 is now publicly available on Microsoft Connect.
The CTP is available at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=428
More details can be found on the SharePoint blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint
When using the SharePoint Services objects make sure to dispose of them properly since some of them, such as the SPSite class and SPWeb class objects, use unmanaged code. Here is a reference for how and when to properly dispose:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973248.aspx
The common objects used are SPSite and SPWeb which should be disposed of.
Note that the SPSite object if obtained from the GetContextSite() method does not need to be disposed of.