Michael Mukalian: Building SharePoint 2010 Features and Solutions in Visual Studio 2010

Building SharePoint 2010 Features and Solutions in

Visual Studio 2010

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Michael MukalianSharePoint Services MVP

Director, Architect, LiquidHub

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AgendaOverviewRequirements for DevelopmentElements of a SharePoint ProjectFeature NodeFeature DesignerPackage Node & DesignerPackaging ExplorerDemosReferences

Overview

With the introduction of Visual Studio 2010, Feature and Package (Solution) development are now integrated into the IDENew SharePoint 2010 Project Type & Item Templates assist in the creation of SharePoint assetsDesigners/Explorer facilitate examining the Feature & Package assets

Requirements For Development

Visual Studio ProfessionalSharePoint Foundation/Server64-bit Windows Server 2008/R2Vista SP1 & Windows 7Farm Administrator rights

Elements of a SharePoint Project

The project fileProject propertiesReferencesFeatures folderPackage folderKey file (strong-named key)

Feature Node

Contains one or more SharePoint project FeaturesA Feature is a ‘container’ for an additional function to SharePointDeployed to a specific scope

Farm, Web Application, Site (Collection), Web (site)

Project items added are also added to the feature nodeDouble-clicking the feature node displays the Feature Designer

Feature Designer

Creates FeaturesSets ScopesEstablish Feature DependenciesManually edit the Feature Manifest

Overriding the generated manifest will disable the Designer, and then all further changes will need to be done manually

Package Node and Designer

NodeGroups and view the hierarchical Package tree

DesignerGroups the SharePoint Items into a Solution Package

Packaging Explorer

Groups and view the hierarchical Package tree

Demo!

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References

SharePoint Development in Visual StudioGetting Started (SharePoint Development in Visual Studio)Developing SharePoint SolutionsFeatures and solutions cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010)Replaceable Parameters

Bio

Michael Mukalian, SharePoint Services MVPEmails

michael@mukalian.commmukalian@liquidhub.com

Blog: The SharePoint Coffee Housewww.mukalian.com/blog

Twitter@mmukalian

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