Visual Studio Archive

  • VS2012Logo

    Custom SharePoint Item and Project Template gotchas for VS2012

    This post is a quick brain dump of some of the challenges I’ve been working through updating CKSDev to work with Visual Studio 2012. Item Templates   You can extend the SharePoint Visual Studio tooling in many different ways. One of which is by creating...

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  • CKSLogo

    CKSDev for Visual Studio 2012 version 1.0 Released

    Since 2009 CKSDev has been available to SharePoint 2010 developers to aid the creation of SharePoint solutions. The project extended the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you were able to find relevant information from your SharePoint...

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  • SPEvo13

    SharePoint Evolution Conference 2013

    For five years running Combined Knowledge have hosted the conference and this years looks to be the best yet. So why should you attend this conference? For me the key reasons would be: It will provide you with access to the best SharePoint experts from...

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  • SPSUK2012

    SPSUK Bring SharePoint into your Office with Apps for Office

    Saturday 8th December saw the 2012 SharePoint Saturday at Nottingham’s Conference Centre. Another great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. I presented a session on Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013, the slides can be seen below. I hope...

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  • CKSDevShortcuts

    CKSDev Adding keyboard shortcuts

    One of the community submitted feature requests was for keyboard shortcuts for the CKSDev menu items. Tobias Zimmergren raised a good suggestion that rather than use the established WSPBuilder versions it would be preferable to use a new set. This makes perfect sense as we always aim for CKSDev to play nice with other extensions.

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  • SPSIndiaLogo

    I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday India

    I'm speaking at SharePoint India. For those of you who missed my session at SharePoint Saturday UK at the NEC earlier this month you've got another chance to catch it at the upcoming SPSIndia. Visit http://sharepointsaturday.org/india/default.aspx to register for this free event.

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  • WouterServiceApps

    Series of Service Application Walkthroughs by Wouter

    Wouter has released a great series of articles about Service Applications in SP2010 http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=149 Following these articles you’ll learn how to build a SharePoint 2010 service application and how you can construct them with different connection and provisioning techniques.    

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  • DebugVSIX

    Configure VSIX project to enable debugging

    Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 SDK includes the new extensibility project which produces a VSIX package. While developing these projects it is often helpful to debug the code. In some circumstances the debug settings can be lost so follow this post to add them back into the project settings.

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  • TFSConnectionRegistry

    How to connect to a TFS server using Visual Studio 2010

    Visual Studio 2010 has changed the way in which Team Foundation Server (TFS) https connections are established. In order to connect to a new TFS server you now need to add some registry settings. In this post the registry entries and bat file content are listed to add the required settings.

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