CKSDev 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • SPSUK

    SharePoint Saturday

    Review of the first SharePoint Saturday UK at the NEC Birmingham. I also had the opportunity to present at this awesome event.

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    CKSDev Version 1.1 Released

    Highlights include:    Improved SPMetal SPI Improved Full Trust Proxy SPI New grouped content types and import function New site columns and import function New Fluent UI Visual web part SPI Improvements to quick deploy Under the cover code improvements Improved import content type Powershell...

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    Community Kit for SharePoint Development Tools Edition

    Annoucing the release of the Community Kit for SharePoint Development Tools Edition. This project provides extensions to four core areas; Environment, Exploration, Content and Deployment. Enhancements to the Visual Studio environment include the new SharePoint References tab available on the Add Reference dialog. Exploration extends the new SharePoint Explorer with advanced information about SharePoint sites. The Content area includes advanced templates. Our enhanced Deployment functions give you the ability to utilise quick deployment and almost a dozen other productivity enhancing deployment steps, including automated deployment.

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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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