Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced
We all know that you can download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP on VPC, and from previous experience we know that the Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint ( AKA VSeWSS - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 – Released ) usually comes a few months AFTER the release of Visual Studio itself. Well , it seems that now, just like VSTO comes as part of the Visual Studio 2008 Development Template Bundle, the VSeWSS would come and join the "standard" group of the same bundle :)
from the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
We know that the expected improvements as part of the NEW version (“VSeWSS 2010”) are:
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Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio
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Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution
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Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint
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Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.
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Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability
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Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created
You can learn more on Channel9 and the Visual Studio 2010 homepage.