​SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment. In addition, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a quick start on SharePoint development projects.

Rapidly Develop SharePoint Solutions without Code
​Build composite SharePoint applications by configuring or designing components such as lists, data sources, content types, views, forms, workflows, and external content types, all without having to write any code. With SharePoint Designer 2010, advanced users and developers can respond more rapidly to business needs with its redesigned user interface, easy connectivity to external systems, improved views and forms, and enhanced workflow design capabilities.

Easily Connect with External Data
Using SharePoint Designer 2010, external data can easily be integrated in any SharePoint solution. Easily discover the data sources available, create External Content Types that define the data operations that you want to enable in SharePoint (create, read, update, and delete), and have SharePoint Designer auto-generate a SharePoint external list and all of the required forms, without writing a single line of code.

Deploy with Confidence with Safe Customizations
With SharePoint Designer 2010, IT professionals can easily control where and how people use SharePoint Designer at all levels of their deployment, from server to site collection, and are able to preserve a consistent brand and layout across a site collection or web application by controlling the customization of pages, master pages, and page layouts.