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Microsoft provides a number of free resources for “getting to know” SharePoint 2010. Note that the most of the CHMs are updated monthly.

Downloadable Books

• Downloadable content for SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Downloadable content for SharePoint Server 2010
• Downloadable content for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
• Guide for IT Pros for Microsoft Search Server 2010
• Guide for IT Pros for Microsoft Project Server 2010
• Downloadable content for the Office 2010 Resource Kit

Downloadable CHM

• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft Search Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft Project Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft Groove Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Office 2010 Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Microsoft just released an updated version of it’s guidance for Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010.

From Microsoft:

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 contains guidance documentation, detailed examples, and a reusable class library. These resources are designed to help solution developers and architects make the right decisions and follow proven practices when designing and developing applications for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010. The guidance focuses on the building blocks that every developer needs to understand to become an effective SharePoint developer or architect.The guide is provided as a Help (.chm) file and has four core areas: application foundations, execution models, data models, and client models. Eight reference implementations illustrate the core concepts covered in the guide. The reusable class library provides code to help developers build more manageable, flexible, and testable applications. Source code is provided for all reference implementations and for the reusable library. The reference implementations have automated setup scripts to configure the applications.

Reference

• Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

The Microsoft SharePoint ECM team recently teamed up with WAND to release a starter taxonomy (free download). If you’ve been staring at a blank term store, this would be a place to start.

Reference

• ECM Team Blog – Taxonomy–The Challenge of Starting from Scratch

The Microsoft SharePoint team has released specific guidance for a workaround for the recently announced ASP.NET vulnerability (Security Advisory 2416728). With a slight modification, this guidance will also apply to SharePoint 2007.

For SharePoint 2010, the relevant web.config entry will look like:

 <customerrors defaultredirect="/_layouts/error2.aspx" mode="On" redirectmode="ResponseRewrite"></customerrors>

While for SharePoint 2007, the web.config entry will read:

 <customerrors defaultredirect="/_layouts/error2.aspx" mode="On"></customerrors>