To help drive adoption of SharePoint by Software Developers, MS has launched a campaign to .NET Developers at http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com.

The new material is designed to help .NET Developers to learn the top ten artefacts in SharePoint that are interesting to them. They have created a variety of materials with different learning styles to make getting started with these artefacts easy and it’s all based on the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – planned to release v1.2 for Visual Studio 2008 this week also (watch for their announce).

The Top Ten SharePoint Artifacts of interest to .NET Developers being promoted

·         Web Parts

·         Data Lists

·         Event Handlers

·         Workflows

·         Silverlight Web Parts

·         Page Navigation

·         Page Branding

·         Web Services

·         Content Types

·         User Management

At the site (which is hosted on microsoft.com) they have:

·         An Introductory Whitepaper

·         Benefits of SharePoint for Developers

·         A Small Public VPC

·         Hosted MSDN Virtual Labs in C# and VB.NET

·         Video Interview with SharePoint MVPs

·         Screencasts

·         Web Casts with SharePoint MVPs (incredible 1705 live attendees in just the first four WebCasts)

·         Quickstarts

·         Labcasts

·         Presentation Download

·         Hands on Labs Download

·         Additional Resource Links

The site encourages developers who use the content to also take a next step and go on Instructor Led Training, Get Certified, and Download an evaluation copy of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com