Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Showing messages to the user – Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools tip #6

    While extending the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools, you can create extensions that do various things: from retrieving content of a SharePoint Site and its properties to manipulating it and exporting into SharePoint Project Items (SPI). As some of these operations might take a while to run, it is considered a good practice to let the user know what the extension is doing at the moment.

  • Imtech List EventReceivers Extension

    Imtech List EventReceivers Extension is an extension for the new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools that allows you to explore the Event Receivers attached to a specific List.

  • You installed a Visual Studio extension and it doesn’t work…

    Visual Studio 2010 ships with a great extensibility functionality allowing you to write and deploy new extension in a very easy way. However, if you’re a SharePoint developer there is one thing to keep in mind while installing new extensions.

  • Ask the Expert @ SharePoint Connections 2010

    SharePoint Conference 2009 has been just a few weeks ago and there is another cool SharePoint 2010 event ahead of us: Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010! This event will contain all the highlights from the SharePoint Conference 2009 so if you missed it, you will have a great opportunity not only to get the hottest content but also to speak with some SharePoint experts who will be at the conference.

  • Imtech Style Library Extension

    The Imtech Style Library Extension has been inspired by the Imtech Master Pages and Page Layouts Extension. The edit functionality that it provides has been something that I have used a lot while working with developing SharePoint solutions on SharePoint 2007. For the last few years I’ve been working almost exclusively on Web Content Management (WCM) solutions. One thing that I’ve been editing perhaps even more than Page Layouts and Master Pages were the XSLT files used by the Content Query Web Part (CQWP). Looking at the enhancements of the CQWP in SharePoint 2010 I will be very likely using it heavily as well. To make working with these XSLT files easier, I decided to create an extension for the Visual Studio SharePoint development tools that would allow to view and edit the contents of the XSL files used by the CQWP.