Easy SharePoint development with VSeWSS 1.3(in CTP now)

The typical type of application done on SharePoint are Collaborative Business apps, Small one page intranet apps, or customization of SharePoint sites. New in VseWss1.3 : broke up steps in separate commands, command line build, some extra deployment commands, auto web part renaming, auto deployment conflicts, WSP view cleanups and supports 64 bit code. Will be able to package deploy and retract. Developer should probably have a local SharePoint site to do this development. Http://MSSharepointdeveloper.com is the site to go to see tutorials and such to get started. There is no visual designer yet, but there will be in VS2010.Sharepoint has its own query language called camel to get data. In VS use the WSP view to see what will be put in WSP file. SharePoint solution generator can be used to create a VS solution that would generate SharePoint site. This comes with SharePoint development tools. Next the talk went into talking about ALM for SharePoint. There are 3 categories to look at content, design, and code. Design and Code should both probably use VS to save to TFS. VS workflows and SharePoint workflows are not compatible, so a decision on which you want needs to be made before starting an ALM for workflow. Although activities can be created in VS that can be used in SharePoint workflows. VSeWSS 1.3 contains 10 new themes that can be applied to SharePoint sites.