Videos on SharePoint 2010 - Getting Started

Here are some videos which gives starting point on the SharePoint 2010:

1. What Can SharePoint 2010 Do for Me?

2. How SharePoint 2010 Works

3. Simple Install for Testing

4. Search

5. Backups

6. Creating Your First Web Application, Site Collection, and Web

7. Security

8. Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Administrators

9. Performance and Control in SharePoint 2010

Developing Solution with SharePoint 2010

Here is a very good resource on Microsoft which shows how to create Solutions in SharePoint 2010:

Learning Solution in SharePoint 2010

Developer Videos on SharePoint 2010

Here are the videos from MSDN to learning development on SharePoint 2010. They show some really exciting new features on SharePoint 2010:

Getting Started

Module 1: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Module 2: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010

Module 3: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010

Module 4: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs

Module 5: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs

Module 6: Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010

Module 7: Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Module 8: Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Module 9: Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

Module 10: Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010

Videos on SharePoint 2010

Microsoft has released some videos on SharePoint 2010. Though they don't provide detailed info but helps to get a quick overview about what we can expect in next generation of SharePoint product.

Check the videos here:

1. SharePoint 2010 Overview

2. SharePoint 2010 for IT Professional

3. SharePoint 2010 for Developer

After seeing the video the following new features can be expected in the new version of SharePoint:

* Customizable Ribbon based UI (As given in Office suite of products)
* Inherent Support for Silverlight Web parts. Develop the Silver Light code and use SilverLight Web Part to use .xap file which was created
* Enhanced Themes
* Multi Select list items using check box to do certain operation.
* Enhanced Central Admin Design/UI.
* Cool tools included in the Visual Studio 2010.(Visual Webpart designer, BCS Designer, Complete integrated option for developing Solutions)
* SharePoint Best Practice Analyzer which monitors farm health and shows the report where issues related to performance and security are there. It also allows to configure so that these issues can be fixed automatically.
* Support for Linq which allows to read and join list data easily
* Developer Dashboard which helps to understand how the request is getting processed. Where each event is taking time in this process. It will be helpful in writing efficient code and debugging performance issues
* Introduction of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and removal of BDC
* External List to store the data fetched from BCS
* Client Object Model to access SharePoint on the client side using Java Script