SharePoint 2010

227 essays

  • Extending generic folder nodes – Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools tip #4

    Generic explorer nodes, like the Features or the Content Types node, weren’t really made to be extended. After all, all they do is to wrap the “real” nodes, so that using the SharePoint Explorer is easier and better performing. Still, there might be situations, when you could want to add some extra functionality to a generic folder node like for example displaying Content Types in groups or grouping Features in Enabled and Disabled.

  • Get active project - Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools tip #1

    One of the things that I very often needed, while creating Visual Studio SharePoint development tools extensions, was a reference to the current project. No matter whether you want to add a reference or a new project item, a reference to the object that represents the current project is the first part of the solution.

  • Extending Visual Studio SharePoint development tools: good to know

    The new Visual Studio SharePoint development tools are way more than “only” a set of tools that helps you during the process of developing SharePoint 2010 solutions. The new development tools ship with a whole framework that allows you to extend the tools to fit your specific needs. While the team responsible for the tools, put a lot of effort into making the extensibility very easy, there are some hidden gems, which, if you know them, will make extending the tools even easier.