Five New and Improved Features

3. Application Development Tweaks

Developers will deal with less coding in SharePoint 2010 with the improvements to design tool SharePoint Designer, tighter integration between development tool Visual Studio and SharePoint, and built-in support for Web application framework Silverlight for more multimedia interaction.

Also, SharePoint Design has been tweaked in SharePoint 2010 to become a "no-code" tool to reduce the chances of code instability.