Visual Studio 2010 made significant investments in the SharePoint development tools. In the earlier version of SharePoint development, developers had to rely on STSDEV, a community tool, or Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) to build different applications and solutions and deploy them to SharePoint.
Visual Studio 2010 was a major step forward in providing rich tools for SharePoint development, noteworthy are the Solution package creation and Visual Web parts. These were the 2 vastly used topics in the SharePoint development and VS 2010 tools for SharePoint made developers life easy.
There was also support for Business data connectivity, Client object model and LINQ for SharePoint.
However VS 2010 left the developers in need to put in more efforts in developing Silverlight web parts and sandbox solutions. There were no tools available for these.
Visual Studio 2011 will surely make the developers life lot easier, VS 2011 adds more designers and templates to the SharePoint development tools kitty.
The major inclusions to the tool kit are highlighted below:
- List and content type designers
Designers now allow the developer to set up and lay out the contents of the new list or content type. The designers enable you to display, sort, and group the available site columns.
- Site Column template
Creating site columns and list fields will be lot easier with the templates
- Silverlight project template
The project template enables you to create a new Silverlight application and it also provides a web part project associated with the Silverlight application.
- Improved Sandbox solution support
Visual web parts now support sandboxed SharePoint projects
- JavaScript IntelliSence and debugging
VS 2011 will provide IntelliSense when coding JavaScript’s in SharePoint projects and what will make developers happy is the JavaScript codes can be easily debugged
All SharePoint developers - lets look forward to visual studio 2011 and I’m very curious on the support Visual studio is going to provide for Windows 8 + SharePoint 2012
For more details refer to the MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee290856(v=vs.110).aspx
No comments:
Post a Comment