Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview
Mike Morton
Senior Program Manager – Visual Studio
Microsoft Corporation

Developer Tools for SharePoint
Familiar VS Experience
Build, Debug, Deploy SharePoint projects
Visual designers for Web Parts, BDC and Workflows
View SharePoint sites in Server Explorer
Team Foundation Server integration
Application Lifecycle Management
Broad SharePoint Support
Supports SharePoint Foundation & Server
Sandboxed & farm solutions
Business Connectivity Services
Expanded workflow support
SP Designer  Visual Studio continuum

Developer Environment
Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint 2010 on same machine
Must use 64-bit OS
Windows 7
Windows Vista SP1
Windows Server 2008 (R2)
How to setup a SP2010 developer environment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx
SharePoint Easy Setup for Developers
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjohnson/archive/2010/10/28/announcing-sharepoint-easy-setup-for-developers.aspx

Templates and Designers
Project and Item Templates
Templates for many SharePoint artifacts
Wizards collect artifact information
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

Templates & Designers

Development Continuum
Professional developer
Business Analyst/Process Designer
Designer/IW/Power User
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

Development Continuum

Project System
Project commands
Package, Retract
Project properties
Sandboxed, Site URL, etc…
Features & Package nodes
Mapped folders
Items/Files have SharePoint specific properties

Features & Packaging
Feature Designer
Add/Remove Items to Feature
View/Change manifest directly
Package Designer
Add/Remove Items to Package
View/Change manifest directly
Packaging Explorer
Hierarchically view all Packages, Features, Artifacts in Solution (across projects)

Server Explorer Integration
Provides hierarchical view of local SharePoint sites & artifacts
View site collections, sites, features, lists, fields, etc…
View properties of artifacts

Project System & Packaging

Extensibility
Project Extensions
Context menus, project properties, project events
Project Item Extensions
Extend in-the-box items or create new items
Context menus, properties, events, designers, wizards
Server Explorer Extensions
Extend in-the-box nodes or create new nodes
Context menus, properties

Extensibility
Deployment Extensions
New deployment steps & configurations
Handle deployment events
Custom conflict handling
Packaging Validation Rules
Add custom feature/package validation rules
Rules are run during validation
MSBuild Extensibility
Packaging is MSBuild based
Custom tasks can be created

Extensibility in the Wild
Visual Studio Team recently released Power Tools
Enhanced Sandbox Support
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9
Community Kit for SharePoint: Dev Tools Edition
Project, item, deployment, and server explorer extensions
http://cksdev.codeplex.com/

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta
Available Now!
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207130
IntelliTrace
Break execution then replay code showing Call Stack & other data
Save iTrace log file for later viewing
Unit Tests
Create & Execute unit tests in Visual Studio

IntelliTrace & Unit Tests

Resources
MSDN SharePoint Developer Team Blog
MSDN SharePoint Developer Forum
MSDN SharePoint Developer Center
Channel9 SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course
Microsoft Patterns & Practices SP2010 guidance
SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform White Paper
SharePoint Developer Samples
MSDN Library – SP Development in VS2010

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