SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published

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Today we published a code sample that implements a List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects. This is available as sample code that you can reference for your own designers or you can build and use yourself. You can get the version for Visual Studio 2010 beta here.

The extension adds an “Open in Designer” right menu command to list schema project items. Here’s what the designer looks like.

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Please send me feedback on the designer. We will do some more work on this and publish an update for the release of Visual Studio 2010.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2010
    Great functionality, just wish it had the same look and feel as the rest of VS2010.

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2010
    When I open the solution/project I get an error: The project type is not supported by this installation. My visual studio version is the current beta: 10.0.21006.1B2Rel Do I need some extensions?

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2010
    No vsix file in the SharePointListSchemaDesigner_20100111.msi downloaded now. Help...

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2010
    I downloaded the MSI (no VSIX as the instructions say) via that link, and it installs correctly, but there is no "Open in Designer" option when I right-click the list definition or Schema.xml. Please provide more documentation about how to get this working.

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2010
    Daniel, After you install the MSI, it will be simply extracted to a folder like C:Program Files (x86)MicrosoftSharePointListSchemaDesigner Look for the  file called SharePointDesignerPkg_Beta_20100111.zip, and extract its content that is the solution you have to work with (build / deploy). Alexander, The project is a designer that requires the Visual Studio 2010 SDK to be installed to have the correct project type. It's clearly stated in the DesignerReadMe_Beta documents: "The first step to building a designer for this framework is to download and install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK.   You will need this for the SDK templates and tools." Install VsSDK_sfx.exe from your VS install media. Hope that helps others. Peter

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2010
    Greetings, this designer looks useful but the project failed to compile on VS2010RC (some change in SDK since beta?) 'Microsoft.Samples.VisualStudio.SharePoint.VSXmlModel' does not implement inherited abstract member 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.XmlEditor.XmlModel.SaveActionOnDispose.get' Is there going to be version for RC or am I doing something wrong? Or perhaps is it already incorporated in VS2010RC and I just haven't found it? Thanks in advance

  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2010
    Ok I will compile it myself. But.... Why don't just have the vsix file precomplied in the download. Anny reasons for that?