Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview

2. Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Name Title Company

3. Agenda • Introduction to VS2010 SharePoint Tools • SharePoint Tools Project Structure • Adding SharePoint Project Items to a Project • SharePoint Tools Extensibility

4. Improved VS2010 development expirience Introduction to VS2010 SharePoint Tools

5. SharePoint 2007 Development • Visual Studio Experience Is Limited • Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for WSS • SharePoint developers reliant on community tools • Developers have to deal with tedious details • Manually editing CAML files • Manual edits to manifest.xml file • Editing CAB DDF files for solution package • Understanding RootFiles directory of WSS • Attaching to the W3wp Process when debugging

6. Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools • End-to-end SharePoint 2010 developer story • SharePoint 2010 project and item templates • Visual designers for core scenarios • Migration Tool for VSeWSS Projects • SharePoint Explorer for site exploration • Extensible by 3rd party developers • Benefits to SharePoint developers • Abstracts away details of RootFiles directory • Abstracts away details of building solution files • Lessens/eliminates need for external utilities • Overall simplifies the development, deployment and debugging experience for developers

7. SharePoint Tools Project Structure

8. SharePoint 2010 Project Templates • All Projects built using standard structure • Common Project Properties • Active Deployment Configuration • Include Assembly in Package • Assembly Deployment Target • Sandboxed Solution • Site URL • Startup Item

9. SharePoint 2010 Project Structure • Standard Project Nodes • Properties • References • SharePoint 2010 Nodes • Features • Package • SharePoint Project Items (SPI) • Mapped Folders

10. Feature Node and Feature Designer • Feature node contains one or more features • Customize feature properties in designer and/or property grid • Use Context menu of Feature node to add feature event receiver and feature resource files • Feature designer allows adding/removing SPIs • Customize feature activation dependencies • Feature designer provides design mode and XML text Mode

11. Project Packaging • Project Packaging Designer • Modify package properties using property grid • Designer allows you to add/remove features and SPIs • Modify package properties with designer or XML

12. Mapped Folders • Mapped Folders used to deploy to SharePointRoot • Layouts folder maps to virtual path /_layouts • Images folder maps to virtual path /_layouts/images • You can map other folders inside SharePointRoot directory • Layouts folder key to creating application pages • Best practice to create solution-specific folder inside Layouts

13. SharePoint Project Template Deployment Options • Two Deployment configuration by default • Default • No Activation

14. The F5 Debugging Experience • What does F5 do? • Builds a new assembly • Packages project into .wsp file • Deactivates/uninstalls feature • Retracts/deletes old .wsp file • Performs IIS Reset • Adds/deploys new .wsp file • Activates feature in target site (via Site Url) • Attaches debugger to W3WP.EXE worker process (via Site URL)

15. SharePoint Explorer • Extends Server Explorer window • Easy way to examine site artifacts • Quick way to launch browser into site lists • Allows the Developer to stay in the VS IDE while having quick access to artifact properties • SharePoint Explorer extensibility • Developers can create extensions to add additional artifact nodes or add context commands to existing nodes

16. Adding An item to a Project

17. SharePoint Project Item Templates

18. SharePoint Project Items (SPIs) • Projects built with SharePoint Items (SPIs) • SPI is a logical collection of project filesExamples of SPIs are WebParts, List Defs, Workflows, etc • Each SPI has folder with SPI files • Deployment details abstracted away through SPI file properties

19. SPI File Properties • Project tracks properties for each SPI File • SharePoint 2010 properties for deployment • Deployment Path & Deployment Type

20. Ignite WebParts demo

21. SharePoint Tools Extensibility

22. SharePoint 2010 Tools Extensibility • SharePoint 2010 Project system extensibility • Custom extensions integrate into VS2010 IDE • Used to create custom project and tool extensions • Much easier than standard VS extensibility model • SPI & Context Menu extensibility • Extend VS context menu for standard and custom SPIs • Provide extensibility to enable access to SP server API • SP Explorer Nodes & Menu extensibility • Create extension to add a node to the SP Explorer • Create extension to enhance existing node • SP Project extensibility • Create additional/custom deployment steps

23. SharePoint Extension Development VSIX Project Class Library VS 2010 x86 .Net 4.0 F5 VS 2010 x86 .Net 4.0 VSSPHost4 x64 .Net 3.5 SP1 SharePoint OM [Experimental Instance]

24. Custom Deployment Step demo

25. Summary • Introduction to VS2010 SharePoint Tools • SharePoint Tools Project Structure • Adding SharePoint Project Items to a Project • SharePoint Tools Extensibility

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