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This is a known and personally experienced issue (Tech Preview and Beta Builds as well) with Datasheet View not working in SharePoint if you have Office 2010×64 clients installed on your workstation.

Again this is one of the FAQ on the MSDN Forums and today I saw the solution posted on the thread, so comes this post for my reference and in case you experience this, then you know what is the solution to the issue.

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Office 2010 Technical Preview was officially released this week at WPC and tweeps (people on twitter) have been sharing their news, experience, new features, etc already. You can keep up with the latest buzz using BingTweets.

I have compiled a small list to get started with Office 2010! I would recommend adding all Microsoft related blogs to your RSS reader and if you are on twitter, follow

• Me  
• Official Microsoft tweeps
• Look out for #followfriday  + (#Office2010 or #SP2010 or #SharePoint ) tags on Twitter

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If you have been using Outlook 2007 and have never had performance issues with, you are lucky. Period.

Outlook 2007 was and probably is the most chastised of the Office 2007 suite of products today. Outlook 2007 took a hit with performance.

Despite having released numerous hot fixes and service packs, Outlook 2007 has not won many laurels. Time will tell if Outlook 2010 will outperform Outlook 2007 in the performance department!!

In the meantime see how Outlook 2010 TP has now donned the ‘ribbon’ just as SharePoint Designer 2010 TP.

Office 2007 did not have ‘the’ ribbon as compared to Word, Excel, etc.

Outlook 2010 TP has ribbon just as SharePoint Designer 2010 TP

2010 is the year of the Ribbon Ribbon has been introduced in

• InfoPath Designer,
• InfoPath Editor,
• Outlook,
• SharePoint Designer
• One Note
• SharePoint Workspace

Yes, the ribbon has made it’s way into SharePoint Designer 2010 (technical preview at the time of writing).

In this post you will see basic SPD2010 walk through.

This is the initial start up screen when you launch SPD 2010. This is your launch pad to

• Open SharePoint Site
• Create New SharePoint Site
• Access SPD Options Menu

 

First two options are kind of obvious at the moment. I am unable to use them though .

You cannot edit your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 sites with SPD 2010 (TP). You can only edit web sites on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2009

Access SPD Options to

• Customize Ribbon
• Quick Access Toolbar

I am a big fan of Quick Access Toolbar and will cover more of both in coming posts. This post is your introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 (TP) for starts.

So how does SPD 2010(TP) stand up against SPD 2007 in the department of looks?

It’s your call.

SharePoint Designer 2007 on Launch

SharePoint Designer 2010 (TP) on Launch