Visual Studio SharePoint Development Blog
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Date: 02/10/2011
Even More Resources for SharePoint Developers
Kemp first shared a lengthy list of SharePoint developer resources at...
Date: 10/06/2010
Check out the new SharePoint in Pictures blog
There is a new blog called SharePoint in Pictures that illustrates the platform and architecture of...
Date: 10/05/2010
Resources for Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint Developers
Nearly all of the tools for SharePoint development included in Visual Studio 2010 are new, so...
Date: 08/12/2010
Walkthrough of creating association between Sharepoint BDC entities using Visual Studio 2010
Up till now, we have published two blogs in this series about SharePoint 2010 external list,...
Date: 08/02/2010
Deploy your BDC model to a specific BCS Service using Visual Studio 2010
When deploying a BDC model in Visual Studio 2010, some people may see this error message “… There is...
Date: 07/30/2010
Using Deployment Step events to add functionality to Deployment Configuration
With the help of the extensibility features in the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio, you can add...
Date: 07/21/2010
Extending the SharePoint Tools in Visual Studio: An Overview
Since you’re reading this blog, you’re probably aware that Visual Studio 2010 includes...
Date: 07/08/2010
Deploying documents with content types and associating content types with libraries (Part III)
Part III: Using Feature Event Receiver to create a library and associate a content typeIn previous...
Date: 06/24/2010
The Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools are now available!
The Visual Studio team that brought you the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 is...
Date: 06/17/2010
Deploying documents with content types and associating content types with libraries (Part II)
Using ContentTypeBinding to associate content types with lists In previous post we showed how to...
Date: 06/07/2010
Deploying documents with content types and associating content types with libraries (Part I)
Content type, document and a library In this series of posts I will show you how to create a content...
Date: 05/26/2010
Surfacing Business Data in a Web Part that you Create by Using SharePoint Tools in Visual Studio
So you add a Visual Web Part to your SharePoint solution and you want the Web Part to show some...
Date: 05/25/2010
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools ‘Import’ Templates
With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has introduced in-the-box tools for SharePoint development....
Date: 05/06/2010
Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010
There are a bunch of SharePoint features in Visual Studio 2010. You may have already heard about...
Date: 04/27/2010
How to deploy a custom content master and use it in an application page
In SharePoint 2007, Application Pages would inherit from Application Master deployed to Layouts...
Date: 04/19/2010
Building Visual Studio SharePoint Projects using Team Foundation Build
With Microsoft’s introduction of the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools and its...
Date: 04/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 RTM is Available
We are very excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 on April...
Date: 04/13/2010
Deploy a BDC Model project to SharePoint Foundation 2010 using Visual Studio 2010
Business Connectivity Services (BCS), one of the key components of SharePoint 2010, helps you to...
Date: 04/02/2010
Importing fields using the Import SharePoint Solution Package project
A SharePoint Content Type project allows the user to create a content type based on the built-in...
Date: 03/23/2010
List Definition from Content Type using Event Receiver
As a SharePoint developer, you’ve probably heard of VSeWSS (Visual Studio extensions for Windows...
Date: 03/12/2010
Deploying files using Mapped Folders
With Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools, the concept of the Mapped Folder was introduced....
Date: 03/12/2010
Publishing Silverlight Applications in SharePoint 2010
In this blog post I’ll walk you through how easy it is to publish Silverlight applications to...
Date: 02/26/2010
How to deploy a SharePoint Site Definition project to the correct location when the SharePoint language is different from VS Language
If a SharePoint site definition project is created in English (ENU) version of Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 02/26/2010
Adding actions to Site Actions menu
This example shows how to add a link to Site Actions menu. We are going to use mapped folders to...
Date: 02/18/2010
Event Receiver and Custom Error Page
In this example I am going to show you how to use list item event receiver and how to redirect users...
Date: 02/15/2010
Creating SharePoint items with CreateItemActivity
Instead of creating new list items from code in your workflow you can use CreateItemActivity....
Date: 01/18/2010
How to get more information about the exceptions that can happen in SharePoint 2010 projects?
In case there is an exception anywhere in the SharePoint 2010 project (most common place an...
Date: 01/07/2010
How to deploy a style sheet into content library using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
If you do not want to inherit the look and feel of the out of the box SharePoint application and...
Date: 11/23/2009
Channel9 Interviews and Demos
The Visual Studio Team has been releasing a series of Channel 9 interviews and demos on the new...
Date: 11/23/2009
SharePoint Server 2010 Beta is available
Public beta release of SharePoint Server 2010 was announced today at PDC. This is great news for...
Date: 11/18/2009
Getting Started with the SharePoint Packaging Designers
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tooling supports packaging of WSP files with visual designers,...
Date: 11/02/2009
Support for SharePoint 2007 in Visual Studio 2010
On SharePoint conference Steve Ballmer announced that SharePoint 2010 Beta2 is going to be released...
Date: 10/30/2009
Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010
Windows 7 was released today and it was announced on SharePoint blog that Office and SharePoint...
Date: 10/22/2009
Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010
As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 was announced earlier this week and it contains a lot of...
Date: 10/21/2009
Learning SharePoint development
I found an interesting Wiki on SharePoint development. Wiki contains info for admins, about the web...
Date: 01/29/2009
SharePoint development in Visual Studio 10
Are you interested in SharePoint development and you're wondering what tools for supporting...
Date: 11/24/2008
How we test – a high level overview
Hello, my name is Erik Cutts and I'm a tester (SDET) on the Business Applications team in Visual...
Date: 10/09/2008
Creating a simple sequential workflow
Purpose of this post is to show you how to get started developing SharePoint MOSS 12 workflows with...
Date: 10/08/2008
Getting Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint 2007 Sequential / State Machine Workflow projects working with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
I wanted to create a SharePoint workflow using VS 2008 on WSS 3.0. The documentation is set that...
Date: 08/19/2008
What is the difference between sequential and state machine workflows?
Since this is our second post to this blog, I thought we should start with something very simple. I...
Date: 07/24/2008
Welcome to the Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog!
Before we get into any technical details, I just wanted to give you the background on how we came up...
Date: 07/01/2008