Today, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 March 2013 Update which have additional features, project types and support for some of the enhancements that comes with Office 2013 SP1 and Office 365. So if you’re a developer targeting Office 365, Office 2013 or SharePoint Server 2013 it may be a good idea to go grab the update and install it now. SAP Data Source in your Cloud Business Application As quoted from the Visual Studio blog: [blockquote]The March 2014 Update also offers first class support for SAP Netweaver Gateway. When connecting CBA to SAP, it honors…
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Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A while back an announcement was made that TFSPreview.com had been made available for general testing. Various bloggers at Microsoft put an invitation token in their MSDN blogs so everyone can have a go at it. In this article series we’ll take a very quick look at what the hosted TFS solution by Microsoft looks like. Articles currently in the series: [blockquote]Part 1: Getting Started Part 2: Connect your development rig (this post) Part 3: Configuring a Build server to work with TFS preview…
Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www. tozit.com | [@zimmergren](http://twitter.com/zimmergren) Introduction If you’re a seasoned SharePoint developer, you probably have a good set of tools that you’re working with on a daily basis. Some of my all-time favorites include: WSPBuilder SharePoint Manager ReSharper Reflector Pro Visual Studio 2010 U2U CAML Query Builder With the addition of new tools to the community basically every week, it could be hard to keep track of all the different extra applications you’d want to use. CKS:Dev has been released! If you’ve heard of…
Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | [@zimmergren](http://www.twitter.com/zimmergren) Introduction Our good friend Mike Morton over at Microsoft just announced the official release of some great extensions to Visual Studio 2010, called SharePoint Power Tools. These tools will extend Visual Studio 2010 to give your these additional features: Sandboxed Visual Web Part Compile-time warnings on Sandboxed solutions when trying to use disallowed code Download http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9…
My pal Carsten Keutmann has done some updates with his marvelous tool WSPBuilder to make it support Windows Server 2008 as well. All my development-machines are running Server 2008 along with Visual Studio 2008 and of course – the latest release of WSPBuilder. You can download the latest release of WSPBuilder from here WSPBuilder For introduction and thorough coverage of the tool and it’s capabilities, check out my previous post on the subject here: "WSPBuilder – Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in". Have a great weekend, and don’t code too much SharePoint now in this awesome weather!…
Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction Alright. People have approached me lately and asked me if I could give them a brief introduction to the WSPBuilder extensions available for Visual Studio. Instead of taking all those discussions on one by one, I’ve decided to document some of the main features here. If I’m missing out on something, please let me know and I’ll fill it up. Bil Simser did a survey with the SharePoint MVP’s and summarized the foremost favorite CodePlex projects in this article. In this article I will cover one of my…
As I know this is a popular tool for some of you guys reading this blog (I’ll leave my own comments on the tool unsaid for now) – you can now download the latest February CTP from the Microsoft Download site. VSeWSS 1.3 February 2009 CTP has been released, go on and grab it here: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 – Feb 2009 CTP Some of the highlighted features include, but are not limited to: Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be…
Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url: [<a href="http://www.zimmergren.net](/">http://www.zimmergren.net*](/) What is VSeWSS? VSeWSS is a plugin to Visual Studio that adds a set of functionality which may help you in your daily tasks as a SharePoint developer. The plugin comes with a basic set of templates, and a great set of functionality which I’ll try to outline here. Overview of the main functionality Project Templates Team Site Definition Blank Site Definition List Definition Web Parts Empty project Item Templates (which you can add to the project templates) List Definition (+ from…