Sandboxed solutions are going to change the way that people think about SharePoint as a development platform. You're going to see an explosion in the number of SharePoint solutions that developers create and deploy....
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I am pleased to announce the release of 3 new Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility Projects for SharePoint 2010 on MSDN Code Gallery. These projects will help you automate some common development tasks when creating SharePoint 2010 solutions using Visual Studio 2010. These three SharePoint 2010 Extensibility Projects can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery here, http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vsixforsp. All of the projects contain a Hands On Lab and a walkthrough video. Follow the links below to blog posts providing further details for each project template. Silverlight Web Part Project Template The Silverlight Web Part Project template will create a fully functioning Silverlight Web Part project ready for deployment. The project template also uses a Silverlight control generator that replaces some of the functionality that was deprecated from the Silverlight 3.0 SDK. This makes it easy for developers to quickly create a custom Silverlight application that goes beyond the functionality of the built in Silverlight Web Parts. Developers have total control over the Web Part such as how the Silverlight plug-in code is generated and other Web Part behavior. For more details and a quick walkthrough visit: Silverlight and SharePoint project template Server Ribbon Project Item Template One of the new features in SharePoint 2010 is the Server Ribbon. The Server Ribbon brings all of the goodness that the Client Ribbon provides to SharePoint. Creating a ribbon requires that the developer code the ribbon xml by hand. Doing this by hand has a steep learning curve to get started. The Server Ribbon Project Item template makes it easy to create a Server Ribbon by following the wizard. In addition to the wizard there are code snippets for create all of the ribbon controls. This is a great way to l...
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Are you ready for the next wave in developer tools? The
Visual Studio Launch Conference and Expo starts this weekend at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Although the title is the VS Launch Conference we will also be launching Silverlight as well. So there will be plenty of new content for both developers and designers. The conference officially runs from April 12-14th but most of the mayhem kicks off on Sunday as everyone starts to arrive from around the world for the
preconference workshops. Then at 8:30 on Monday morning BobMu will kick everything off with his Visual Studio Launch keynote address. On Tuesday morning at
8:00am ScottGu kicks off the Silverlight Launch keynote. Scott’s talk is the one I am personally looking forward to the most. The strength of Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 make for a hugely compelling developer platform....
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Welcome to the new Microsoft Insider Blog. My Name is Paul Stubbs and I am a SharePoint Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. In this blog we will talk about all things SharePoint and Office and the developer ecosystem that surrounds these vast products. I will attempt to keep you in the loop with all of the happenings on the SharePoint product team and here on the Microsoft campus in Redmond....
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