Via Soma: Sharepoint tools support in Visual Studio http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx In the screenshots, note the .package and .feature files, as well as the Packaging Explorer tab on the right. In the example a feature is displayed where...

Cat is finally peeking out of the hat! SharePoint 2010 “sneak peek” is finally available publicly. Just finished watching the videos. Tom Rizzo gives a nice sneak peek overview: Overview Ribbons in browser with SharePoint. They are contextual, and can be changed. In-browser Editing everywhere, and heavy...

Thanks to everyone in the terrific crowd at my TechDays session in Toronto, and to everyone who stopped by to chat throughout the day. While attendees will be able to get the deck, the source code and a recording of the presentation in a few weeks (steps to connect will be sent to you by e-mail), earlier...

I'm in Las Vegas this week for the SharePoint Conference , where today marks a new era for everything SharePoint. And with the fantastic rate of growth in the use of SharePoint, that means that today thousands of people will start thinking of new ways to do business . Through the MVP program the Product...

Partial trust or "Sandboxed" solutions Runs in a separate process Everything in the WSP is deployed to a special repository managed by Central Administration. There is a new compilation model to support this repository (that you thankfully don't need to learn about, it "just works", though when the decks...

There are three scenarios or scopes that the team designed for - the library, the document repository and then large scale repositories. The third isn't covered specifically here, but it's basically an architectural strategy that uses many components (e.g. Content Organizer and FAST) to manage millions...

Look out TSPUG, there's a new user group in town! Led by Ray Outair, all the pieces are finally in place and the first meeting is: This Monday from 6 to 8:30 at Microsoft Canada's Mississauga office ! An Overview of SharePoint 2010 Presented by Rob Windsor ( ObjectSharp ) SharePoint 2010 is being unveiled...

You probably already know that SharePoint 2010 supports installing on 64-bit Windows 7 and Vista, for developers. I’ll give you a quick walkthrough of how I’m setting up my development machine, in continuation of my new found love for native-boot with VHDs . My objectives I want flexible approach so...

Extensibility points Already had: Macros, add-ins and packages New extensions based on MEF VSIX model simplifies distribution and deployment VSIX Package A zip package Contains am .XML manifest Install by double-clicking Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Part of .NET 4.0 An extensible app "imports...

The default experience when you press F5 in Visual Studio 2010 is to Create, Build, Package and Deploy your solution, all at once, automagically, pretty cool. As long as you don't want to control that process. But wait, you can do that too. You can customize exactly what happens when you press F5 to...