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Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests

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We have worked hard to listen and respond to the feedback from SharePoint Developers on VSeWSS. After VSeWSS 1.2 released in July 2008 we went out and talked to lots of SharePoint Developers about what they liked and didn't like about developing with VSeWSS. All of the new features in VSeWSS 1.3 are as a result of customer feedback, and there are lots of them. We just finished the VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP which released a couple of days ago. Read about the new features in the release notes and if there's anything we missed, please tell us.

If you want to see how easy it is to get going with SharePoint Development using VSeWSS, check out Kirk Evans short screecast showing building a Web Part, packaging and deploying it and some of the new features that make workarounds a thing of the past.

If you want to learn SharePoint Development using VSeWSS, check out the hands on labs and training videos at MSSharePointDeveloper.com.

Also released today is a set of 10 new theme projects for VSeWSS. These are individual Visual Studio 2008 projects which when deployed to SharePoint offer fresh new designed themes you can use in your projects.

VSeWSS will continue to be the recommended Microsoft tool for SharePoint Development until Visual Studio 2010 is released including a brand new set of SharePoint Tools. If you are a SharePoint Developer then your feedback about VSeWSS is important to us. You can give feedback on the tool at our Connect site here, or if you want to have a discussion about VSeWSS we recommend the MSDN SharePoint Development forum here. You can also give feedback as a comment on my blog and I will try to reply to anything posted here.

The Release To Web (RTW) of VSeWSS 1.3 is expected in July 2009 and we are not planning any further CTP releases.

If you want even more info about VSeWSS you can learn SharePoint Developer Best Practices direct from Microsoft Patterns and Practices published November 2008 here.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Paul, thanks for the update. One thing Microsoft needs to keep in mind is that you tend to talk to SharePoint Developers. That's natural. But you may be missing a larger number of people who are not SharePoint developers because of the perceived difficulty of developing SharePoint solutions. It would be unfortunate if you were missing perhaps twice the number of developers because, for instance, of weak support for developing on non-server systems. Existing SharePoint developers would not need that, or not much, but it may be preventing entry for others. You would never know that if you only talk to SharePoint developers.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    E' stata appena rilasciata la versione di marzo delle Visual Studio Extension per SharePoint. (come

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Novedades de Hoy: Ya esta disponible para descarga la versión RTM de Internet Explorer 8, así es, ya

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    The final March 2009 CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (v1.3) has now been recently

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Hi Microsoft has released the last and final version of CTP for the Visual studio Extension for Visual

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2009
    After installing the March 2009 CTP, I get the following error when I click Tools/Recycle App Pool : Error recycling pool.  Details: The system cannot find the path specified. When I view External Tools, Recycle App Pool is defined as: Title: Recycle App Pool Command: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12binstsadm.exe Arguments: -o recyclepool -pool mypool When I look at IIS, Application Pools, SharePoint Central Administration v3, I see TWO entries for VSeWSS. What can I do to fix this error?

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    March 20, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2009
    I (1)uninstalled, (2) manually renamed %programfiles%Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools 9.0 to something else (because the CTP fails to completely uninstall itself - please fix this before final release), (3) reinstalled. When I open up am existing SharePoint MOSS 2007 workflow solution and right-click on the project (not the solution), I DO NOT SEE ANY RIGHT-CLICK MENU OPTIONS THAT SAY RECYCLE APP POOL.  When I click on the Tools menu and then select Recycle App Pool, I get the error message: Error recycling pool.  Details: The system cannot find the path specified. Questions: (1) why is the right-click menu option to recycle application pools missing?  Is it because VSeWSS does not support Workflow solutions?  That's a big disappointment if true because of all the things that need to have Application Pools Recycled, it's SharePoint (MOSS) workflows. (2) What software is creating the ToolsRecycle App Pools menu option if it isn't VSeWSS 1.3 CTP Mar 2009?

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    Hi Fred, No VSeWSS does not include SharePoint Workflow projects. These project templates are included in the Visual Studio 2008 main release. Because VSeWSS is being revised more often we have been able to add some things like apppool recycle which currently aren't in the SharePoint Workflow project template. I would expect that something else on your machine is adding the ToolsRecycle App Pools menu option. It isn't standard Visual Studio or VSeWSS. Regards, Paul

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2009
    Hi, I installed VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP  on my virtual machine. However I could not find a couple of templates in the sharepoint section when I tried creating a new project in VS 2008. They are:

  1. Content Types
  2. List definition from Content Type I searched a lot on google but did not get a fix to this issue. Please help
  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2009
    If I attempt to create a new item using the WSP view after installing the 1.3 extenstions I get the following error any help please 2009/05/18 10:58:37    Error Error: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEItemTemplatesCacheVisualBasicSharePoint1033FeatureReceiver.zipFeatureReceiver.vstemplate'.   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize)   at System.Xml.XmlDownloadManager.GetStream(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials)   at System.Xml.XmlUrlResolver.GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, String role, Type ofObjectToReturn)   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrlDelegate(Object xmlResolver)   at System.Threading.CompressedStack.runTryCode(Object userData)   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)   at System.Threading.CompressedStack.Run(CompressedStack compressedStack, ContextCallback callback, Object state)   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrl()   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Wizards.NewFeatureWizard.SetWizardData(String templateFilePath, Dictionary2 replacementsDictionary)   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Wizards.NewFeatureWizard.RunStarted(Object automationObject, Dictionary2 replacementsDictionary, WizardRunKind runKind, Object[] customParams)   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Forms.SPToolWindowControl.CreateFeature()   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Forms.SPToolWindow.CreateFeature(Object sender, EventArgs arguments)