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Visual Studio 2012 or 2010 for SharePoint 2010 Development?
A recurring question that has come up is regarding which version & flavour of Visual Studio can and should be used for SharePoint- we are at a point where SP 2013 is coming on strong but many, many clients are going to be locked into SP 2010 for a while yet. Obviously an investment in […]
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Cloud SharePoint for Developers : Office 365, Azure, Amazon AWS & CloudShare
Here’s a quick round up of our four top picks for getting your SharePoint Development going on in the cloud. Why develop in the cloud instead of perhaps using a local dedicated or virtual development environment? Here’s ten reasons: 1. Scalable Add as many machines as you need. 2. Open and Flexible Choose development platform and programming model. […]
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Sample Browser App for Windows
I love me some All-in-one-Code Framework. Concise, useful, organized examples of code from Microsoft’ers that help you paddle fast enough to keep up with ye olde wave of acronyms. They are responsive and community-oriented; if you request an example and there is a need for it, they will probably publish it for you. I have posted previously […]
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Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework new update is out
New (Oct.25 2012) release of the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is out. Lots of new Windows Phone 8 samples, an Enterprise Sales Dashboard for Windows 8, SharePoint 2013 Custom Geolocation field type with Client side rendering, a Microsoft Surface Sample screen saver, and more.. Introduction Developers love code samples. Samples often serve as the starting […]
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Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.
Eric Ligman has assembled a nice little collection of free Microsoft ebook downloads: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Programming Windows 8 Apps Programming Windows Phone 7 Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) Office 365 – Connect and Collaborate virtually anywhere, anytime Microsoft Office 2010 First Look Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 […]
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Visual Studio 2010 – The project type is not supported by this installation.
I came back to a VS 2010 C# SharePoint project after a while and found it wouldn’t open the project. The error: The project type is not supported by this installation. This error generally means that the project type you are trying to open is not supported in that Visual Studio Installation. 🙂 Reasons this […]
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Rename Team Foundation Server 2010 Team Project
So you plunk in a name for a new Team Foundation project in Visual Studio’s team explorer, and at some point thereafter have a requirement to change the name of the project. Short and long of it- as far as my look-see has taken me, you can’t: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/554539/cant-rename-a-team-project-in-tfs-2010 You can however delete and start from […]
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TFS Power Tools for Visual Studio
The Team Foundation Server Power Tools for Visual Studio is a free add-on for VS 2010. If you are planning on or are currently working with TFS 2010, this is a must-have: Tool Description Alerts Explorer A plug-in to Visual Studio, Alerts Explorer provides a graphical user interface that supports flexible subscription of alerts based […]