Wednesday, November 12, 2008

SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2010

This is admittedly getting a bit ahead, but I ran across some information about tool support for SharePoint developers in the upcoming VS2010.  From what I had heard, there wasn’t much discussion at PDC.  At a more recent conference though they shed some light on what sounds like a great toolset for SharePoint developers in the upcoming release of Visual Studio: 

  • Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio

  • Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution

  • Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint

  • Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.

  • Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability

  • Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created

More on http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Visual+Studio+2010/

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