From SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles. April 2, 2011. At long last, Microsoft has built in, first-class support for developing SharePoint projects in Visual Studio 2010. This session will cover packaging your code into WSP solutions, managing your features, and debugging. We'll also look at some add-ins that will improve your productivity and demonstrates the extensibility that Visual Studio 2010 has. This session is geared for both seasoned 2007 developers and new ones.

2. Using Visual Studio 2010 to Build SharePoint 2010 Solutions Randy Williams

3. About the Speaker US-West Coast Manager for Synergy Corporate Technologies Based in San Diego, California Consultant/Trainer/Author SharePoint MVP Specialty in Architecting Solutions Email: rwilliams@synergyonline.com Blog: www.synergyonline.com/randy Twitter: @tweetraw

4. Agenda SharePoint Developer Platform Visual Studio Templates Solutions and Features Debugging and Add-ins

5. Agenda SharePoint Developer Platform Visual Studio Templates Solutions and Features Debugging and Add-ins

6. SharePoint Platform and Product Your Product Microsoft Product {your solution here} Platform Infrastructure Base Platform .NET Framework ASP.NET, WCF, Workflow

7. Development Requirements Requires x64 operating system Windows 7 Windows Vista SP1 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008R2 SharePoint 2010 must be installed locally Foundation or Server Visual Studio 2010

8. Agenda SharePoint Developer Platform Visual Studio Templates Solutions and Features Debugging and Add-ins

9. VS Templates 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

10. Project Templates

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

12. Item Templates

13. CKSDev Community Kit for SharePoint Development Extends Visual Studio Project System Just a sample of the add-ins… Automate call to SPMetal from Server Explorer Adding SharePoint references Quick Deploy WSPBuilder Project Conversion Download from cksdev.codeplex.com Screen casts at http://bit.ly/fVKdDH

14. Visual Studio SharePoint Power Tools Additional add-ins Provided by Microsoft Sandboxed-compatible Visual Web Part Sandboxed compilation – displays build errors for disallowed code Download from http://bit.ly/hmx9hS

15. Sandboxed Solutions Business Agility Security and Stability Essential Agility Essential Stability Simpler development model Easy & Rapid Deployment Office 365 (Cloud) Limited API Access Monitored Resources Site Collection Quotas Separate Process

16. Creating a Sandboxed visual web part DEMO

17. Agenda SharePoint Developer Platform Visual Studio Templates Solutions and Features Debugging and Add-ins

18. VS SharePoint Projects Project commands Package, Retract Project properties Sandboxed, Site URL Features & Package nodes Mapped folders Project items & files have SharePoint specific properties

19. Feature Designer Feature Scope Feature Title Add/Remove items View/Edit Feature Manifest

20. What are Solution (WSP) Packages? Used to Deploy Code Contains all customized files and deployment instructions WSP extension Internally a cabinet file Created by Visual Studio Farm or Sandboxed Assembly.DLL WSP Manifest.XML Content.htm Image.jpg

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

22. Working with Features and Solutions DEMO

23. Agenda SharePoint Developer Platform Visual Studio Templates Solutions and Features Debugging and Add-ins

24. Visual Studio Debugging F5 Experience Web.config changes Can still attach to W3WP.exe process Developer Dashboard stsadm-o setproperty -pn developer-dashboard -pvondemand

25. Server Explorer and SharePoint Tool window which provides 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 sites Read only

26. SharePoint Manager Extends the concept of the Server Explorer Many properties can be changed Separate Windows Application Must be run on SharePoint Server Do not run against production server! Download from spm.codeplex.com

27. DEMO Debugging and Add-ins

28. Don’t Forget SharePint!! Join us at 6:30 pm at TheDaily Pint for a free drink, kindly provided by Rackspace! A great opportunity to network with other SharePoint Professionals! Please complete your Speaker Evaluation and turn it in before you leave. Drop off at the Community table or at the Cafeteria before closing.

29. Thank you Questions?

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