Compare SharePoint 2007 – SharePoint 2010 development

SharePoint 2007	SharePoint 2010
ENVIRONMENT
Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 32 bit or 64 bit .NET 3.0 (IIS 6.0 above) WSS 3.0 MOSS 2007	Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 (Production), W4indows 7 or Vista SP2 (dev) 64 bit 64 bit only .NET 3.5 and above, IIS 7.0 SharePoint Foundation 2010 (SPF) SharePoint Server 2010
WORKLOADS OR FUNCTIONAL AREAS
SharePoint provisioning & Collaboration lists Wikis, blogs, user profiles, my sites Excel Services SQL Reporting services Performance Point Add-On BDC	Sites Communities Social networking Enterprise metadata tagging Content WCM ECM DM RM Search Built in search FAST Search (enterprise) FAST Search Center Insights Excel Services Performance Point Services Cohesive BI integration Reporting Composites Business connectivity services (CRUD) External content type
IMPROVEMENTS
Visual Studio 2008 (Visual studio extensions for wss 3.0 & codeplex utilities) .NET Framework 3.5 stsadm command line No LINQ support (caml support) Full HTTP Requests (postback) no need to write CAML queries Workflow on lists and documents New MOSS to access External data SSPs Solution Package	Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint projects, SharePoint explorer) .NET Framework 4.0 PowerShell scripts (stsadm backward compatibility) WSS Integration with LINQ Ajax requests & SilverLight support Server-side ribbon and In-Place editing Improvements to Lists and Events (events for child site, large lists, throttling) New client object model Workflows on sites External data can be accessed with SPF SPF support Service applications extensible Service Application architecture, Scalability Sandbox Solutions and Partially trusted code, build solution and upload to site collection Claims based security (saml support, support Live ID) Developer Dashboard request run-time length even handlers fired sequence of event handlers SPD improvements SPD objects have relationships Intuitive navigation between SPD objects SPD work migrates to Visual Studio 2010 SPD customization work exported to .wsp .wsp files imported into Visual Studio 2010 Reusable workflows (customization) Site Workflows (Workflow designer) PowerShell Support Replaces stsadm powerful scripts develop custom PowerShell snap-ins (provider-based model) Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Terminology review (still remains the same)
Farm (SPFarm) Web Application (SPWebApplication) Site Collection (SPSite) SPSite (SPWeb) List (SPList) Item (SPListItem) Document Library (SPDocumentLibrary) File (SPFile) Folder (SPFolder)