Sharepoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer 2010, developers can rapidly create SharePoint solutions. Power users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites to business intelligence solutions.
Brand new User Interface
The user interface in SharePoint Designer 2010 has been completely revamped. Create no-code solutions more rapidly with the List and Content Type editors, reusable workflows, XSLT templates, and external content types, among many other new capabilities.
SharePoint Designer 2010 now utilises the highly acclaimed Fluent UI (“Ribbon”) interface.
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Screenshot
Custom actions
Using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can easily define custom actions for any list or add them as buttons to the Ribbon, making it possible to deliver great user experiences that make tasks easier.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Software developer can now maintain SharePoint artifacts in Visual Studio 2010. You can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to build your workflow prototypes, list designs or Business Connectivity Services configurations and then bring them into Visual Studio. You can collaborate with other people by designing workflow activities in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and allowing others to build workflows in SharePoint Designer.
Business Connectivity Services
Through Business Connectivity Services, or BCS, SharePoint Designer 2010 allows you to extend the reach of your data to everybody in the organisation. You can connect to data in external databases or custom data stores. Create External Content Types that describe the external data, and enable users to search, read and write to these external lists as easily as if they were SharePoint lists. Users can also interact with this data even when offline by using SharePoint Workspace, Office, or Word, and offline changes are automatically synchronized when users reconnect.
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