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The new experience for developing SharePoint solutions in VS2010

Richard Fennell & James Mann from Black Marble

@RichardFennell rfennell@blackmarble.co.ukjmann@blackmarble.co.uk

http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennellhttp://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/jmann

SharePoint development was not easy...

• Development OS restrictions• No end to end story• Much use of own or community tools• Choices had to be made to do • on site customisation • or feature packaging

Life is better with Visual Studio 2010...

• SP2010 can installed on client OS• Sandbox applications• Templates are provided for most SharePoint

artefacts• We get an F5 deployment experience• Interoperability between SharePoint Designer

and Visual Studio

VISUAL STUDIO 2010Demo

SHAREPOINT DESIGNERDemo

Clients Talking to SharePoint - then

In the past we used to call the web services on

the Web Tier

ClientsTalking to SharePoint - now

We now have a .NET Client API which wrappers the web service

callsAPI

SHAREPOINT CLIENT APIDemo

Other useful management tools• SharePoint Manager 2010 (CodePlex)– Use to inspect the farm, and edit to a degree.

Useful to track down stray content types.• SharePoint 2010 Service Manager (CodePlex)– If running on a development box with less than

8GB can manage what is running to optimise the memory you have.

Other useful development tools• Typemock Isolator (Commercial Product)– Allow faking out of SP object, can be useful to test

items such as WebPart without running SharePoint

• SP Dispose Checker (MSDN)– Static analysis tool that checks for best practice

use of the SharePoint object model

OTHER TOOLSDemo

Summary - Our top tips• Target SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010• Make sure your WSP work in their simplest form• Make sure your features target the correct

scope as altering them is time consuming• Use SharePoint Designer to export ‘spike’

projects• Run SPDispose in your automated builds

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