New Features in SharePoint Designer 2010

It's been a pleasure working SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2010 over the last several months. Some of the important new features I have listed below comparing with SPD2007

• Greatly improved UI, which is very helpful
• You can now use the Ribbon, Quick Launch Navigator and Site Content Structure for Site information
• Using Site Content Structure, you can create a: Web Part page, MasterPage, list, and workflow
• Permissions can be set for individual users
• Saving and deleting site templates is now possible
• The ability to use XSLT List View Web Parts to show dynamic views of your data
• Support for attaching workflows to content types
• Support for workflow templates
• Create Content Types and attach to lists

For your convenience, I've created a chart comparing the features between SharePoint Designer 2007 and SharePoint Designer 2010:

Issues		SP Designer 2007	SP Designer 2010
UI in Sharepoint Designer	- See structure site information such as: Pages, list, Master page - Use Ribbon - Use Quick Launch Navigator - Show structure site information	- Yes - No - No - No	- Yes - Yes. - Yes - Yes
Lists	- Can Add New/Rename/Delete list - See all structure of list - Add/Edit/Delete columns - New/Modify/Delete views - New/Modify/Delete workflows on current list - New/Modify/Delete Content Type - Modify Setting list - Add/Edit/Delete Custom Action (very useful!)	- Yes - No - No - No - No - No - No	- Yes - Yes - Yes - - Yes - Yes - Yes - Yes -
Site Content Struture	- Can Create/Delete subsite - Create pages, master page, lists for site - Add/modify Group - Edit Title/Description of the site and content of site - Manage site settings, save and delete site template - View all/manage content type - All pages stored in SitePages document=> easy to control.	- Yes - No - No - No - No - No - No	- Yes - Yes - - Yes - Yes - - Yes - - Yes - Yes -
Use XSLT List View Web Parts	- Show dynamic views of your data via XSLT List View Web Parts	- No	- Yes
Workflows	- Workflows: more actions than SP Designer 2007 (Workflow Actions In SP Designer 2007 ) - Import workflows from Visio - Export workflows to Visio - List Workflow, Reusable and site Workflow	- Yes - No - No - No	- Yes - Yes - Yes - Yes
Content Types	- Create/Edit/Delete Content type - Setting for Content Type - Apply Content Type to list	- No - No - No	- Yes - - Yes - - Yes -