Developing Applications Using Visual Studio

One appealing feature of SharePoint is that it supports application development in many shapes and forms. Because SharePoint is built on the .NET platform, developers can theoretically create applications to perform any set of functions required by the organization. SharePoint 2010 is intended to partner with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 to make it even easier for developers to create powerful and stable applications. Additional enhancements in the development arena include

• A new client object model enabling code to be run on a client that was once relegated to running only on the SharePoint server.

• Rest APIs allowing for standards-based XML over HTTP communication with SharePoint. ...

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