Visual Studio 2008 and Web Parts

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I've posted on a couple of forums for SharePoint development and haven't received a response yet. The bottom line appears to be that regardless of whether or not you have WSS or MOSS loaded onto your machine, you will not get project or item templates for web parts. If someone knows what I'm missing, please post a comment.

In VS 08, I was able to pull in an existing web part and it did compile but I have to make my own wsp, manifest.xml, elements.xml and solution.xml files. I'll also have to take an existing batch file for easing deployments to client machines. Not a huge deal but a little painful. I hope to see some support offered soon from MS.

The configurations I tried are: MOSS + VS 08 and MOSS + VS 05 + VS 08. Interestingly, the msi for the SharePoint extensions CTP 1.1 installed without a hitch on a VM that didn't have VS 05. hmmm

I took my existing VS 2005 SharePoint project templates and put them into VS 08 personal templates. No joy. I got a "project not supported" exception from Visual Studio.

axshon - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:37:49 PM

Cool! I'm working through Linq and EF stuff at the moment but I'll grab these as soon as I have a spare half hour.

JJ

axshon - Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:50:29 PM

Codeplex doesn't provide a VB.net web part template. Anyone know where to find one?

Ullr - Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:04:02 PM

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