The look and feel of SharePoint has radically changed from earlier versions of the product. In addition to being more accessible to the user it allows for improved extension points and fewer workarounds. The new user interface components that you can extend and build applications which include the fluent UI ribbon and an extensible dialog system.
Hands-On Labs
SharePoint 2010 UI Advancements Lab
In this lab you will create and customize a list for storing ideas for new toys medicines that Contoso can manufacture. While creating and using this list you will use various new features of SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath.
Videos
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 UI Features
The look and feel of SharePoint has radically changed from earlier versions of the product. In addition to being more accessible to the user it allows for improved extension points and fewer workarounds. The new user interface components that you can extend and build applications which include the fluent UI ribbon and an extensible dialog system.
The SharePoint Fluent User Interface
The context sensitive ribbon interface is now integrated into the SharePoint 2010 user experience. Your applications can extend the ribbon interface to include new menu items and options both on a global level and based on the context of the user. The user interface now also features a status bar immediately below the ribbon to indicate the status of the page that you are working on. Not only do you have context for where you are on the page by context sensitive menus but the overall settings, status, or errors on the page have a consistent location to be displayed.
Sites as Collections of Pages
See how Sites in SharePoint 2010 just becomes a collection of pages. Unlike before pages now play a key role in the structure of a site. SharePoint 2010 leverages wiki concepts for managing content and extends these concepts by allowing for the inclusion of web parts within the wiki pages themselves. In previous versions you were allowed to add web parts to web part zones. In SharePoint 2010 the developer (and the user) has compete control of the user interface including the placement of web parts anywhere on the page. For instance, this means that it is possible to put the results of a survey next to text describing the survey. So the results of code and content can be commingled on the page to create rich live content scenarios.
Managing Data with SharePoint 2010
In this video you will see how to manage data and create forms to support lists. In SharePoint 2010 you can easily create many forms for a list. For example maybe you want to have different edit forms based on the user role. SharePoint 2010 supports XSLT views which leverage a standard for transformation of information from XML into HTML. XSLT support means that any XSLT editor can help you create compelling views. SharePoint Designer 2010 improves on its support for XSLT view generation by allowing you to edit the template for an individual item or for the overall view. The new XSLT engine provides a mechanism for exporting and reusing list views between sites by removing the requirement that a view be associated by a GUID.