Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008

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I’m here at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain and Jason Zander (General Manager for Visual Studio) has just finished presenting the keynote. In the keynote he announced and did a demo of the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here’s a quick summary of the new tooling for SharePoint that he showed:

  • Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio
  • Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability
  • Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created

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