What would make development with SharePoint easier?

Question

What would make development with SharePoint easier?

Answer 1

A better product.

Right now it is to many things that doesn't behave as a development environment should.

1. Dispose of objects
2. Performance of traversing small lists with 3000/4000 items
3. Lack of support of transactions

Hopefully next version will have the SQLServer based lists where you can have transactional support and better performance......

Bill G raised the question in feb 2008 that it is something strange with Sharepoint that you get problems when you have 3000 items in a list and SQL Server easily supports million of items....

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Answer 2

The build and deployment process needs to be simplified. There are numerous tools available to create WSP files, but they are all decent at one thing another, but you ultimately need to extend or rework the solution WSP deployment package for you environment.