Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview

1. Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview Peruri Srinivasulu Director, Information Worker Solutions Bennett Adelson

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3. Evolution of SharePoint Tooling • VSeWSS 1.3 • VS2005 • VS2008 • VSeWSS • VS2010 + + • Multiple Visual Designers • Packaging and Deployment • Project & Item Templates • TFS integration • Extensible Projects & Tools • 64 bit support • WSP View Improved • Separate Package Command • Command Line Build • F5 Deploy Debug • WSP Packaging • SPSolGen • WSP View • Sequential Workflow • State Machine Workflow Upgrade Tool 2007 2008 2009 2010

4. Visual Studio SharePoint SupportDevelopment environment requirements • Requires x64 operating system • Windows 7 • Windows Vista SP1 • Windows Server 2008 • Windows Server 2008R2 • SharePoint 2010 must be installed locally • SharePoint Foundation or SharePoint Server • Visual Studio 2010

5. Visual Studio SharePoint SupportTemplates and designers • Project and Item Templates • Templates for many SharePoint elements • Support for sandboxed solutions • Visual Designers • Design web parts • Build Business Data Connectivity (BDC) models • Create Workflows • Workflow Enhancements • Site level workflows • Templates for association & initiation forms

6. Project Templates

7. Project Wizard Site used to deploy & debug solution Support for sandboxed solutions

8. Item Templates

9. Templates and Designers demo

10. Development Continuum Business Analyst/Process Designer Designer/IW/Power User Professional developer Import Create lists & libs Design Web Pages Web part hook-up Views & forms Declarative Workflows Custom Web Parts Code Workflows Event Receivers List Definitions Application Pages Design skeleton workflow processes View workflow visualizations Design data-backed business diagrams WSP Package Export

11. Import SharePoint Solution(WSP) • Wizard for developer to select WSP • Declarative elements can be selected for import • Modify imported items and extend by adding additional items, code, etc…

12. Development Continuum demo

13. Visual Studio SharePoint SupportProject system • Project commands • Package, Retract • Project properties • Sandboxed, Site URL, etc… • Features & Package nodes • Mapped folders • Project items & files have SharePoint specific properties

14. SP Connections in Server Explorer • Tool window which provides hierarchical view of local SharePoint sites & artifacts • View site collections, sites, features, lists, fields, etc… • View properties for artifacts • Add any number of connections to different site collections

15. Feature Designer Key feature properties Add/Remove items to feature Feature Activation Dependencies View/Edit Feature XML

16. Package Designer Package name Add/Remove items & features Add assemblies, safe controls, resources View/Edit Package Manifest

17. Packaging ExplorerProject and Items Packages Packages Features Features SharePoint Project Items (SPIs) SharePoint Project Items (SPIs)

18. Project System & Packaging demo

19. Visual Studio ExtensibilityProject and Items • Project Extensions • Add context menus • Add/Set project properties • Handle project events • Project Item Extensions • Extend in-the-box items • Add context menus • Add to property grid • Add designers over XML files • Handle events • Create new items • Create wizards • Handle deployment events

20. Visual Studio ExtensibilityServer Explorer and deployment steps • Server Explorer Extensions • Extend in-the-box SharePoint nodes • Add context menus to provide additional functionality • Display information in property grid • Create new SharePoint nodes • Add nodes to display artifacts not shown by default • Deployment Extensions • Create new deployment steps • Create new deployment configurations which leverage your new steps

21. Visual Studio ExtensibilityPackaging • Packaging Validation Rules • Extend packaging validation with custom rules • Create SPI specific validation rules • Rules are run when Feature/Package is Validated • MS Build Extensibility • Packaging is MS Build based • Custom tasks can be created

22. Summary – SharePoint Development with Visual Studio Familiar Visual Studio Experience • Build, Debug & Deploy SharePoint projects • View SharePoint sites in Server Explorer • Visual designers for Web Parts, BDC and Workflows • Integration with Visual Studio’s ALM support Web Part Designer Broad SharePoint Support • SharePoint sandboxed solution support • Business Connectivity Services support • Expanded Workflow support • SharePoint Designer  Visual Studio continuum Packaging Explorer

23. Questions • I am available at: • psrinivasulu@bennettadelson.com • http://www.bennettadelson.com

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25. Learn More about SharePoint 2010 Information forIT Prosat TechNet http://MSSharePointITPro.com Information forDevelopersat MSDN http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com Information forEveryone • http://SharePoint.Microsoft.com

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