• CloudShare Explorer for Visual Studio 2012

    For those who don’t know about CloudShare.com – it’s a subscription-paid virtual server hosting environment along the lines of Amazon EC2 or Azure, which has a key twist: it provides pre-configured virtual machines that specifically focus on SharePoint and related technologies. We use it for development at itgroove when we need to do high-level development,…


  • 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…


  • CKS Dev for Visual Studio 2012 is here

    The Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition extends the Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you will be able to find relevant information from your SharePoint environments without leaving Visual Studio. You will have greater productivity while developing SharePoint components and you will have greater deployment…


  • 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…