Category Archives: Visual Studio

VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear unbound to source control … Continue reading →

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Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools plus a sandboxed compilation to ensure you’re not accidentally calling outside of the allowed set of types and members.

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TFS 2010: Add to security groups from outside of the current domain

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

If you’re a SharePoint developer like me, chances are that the dev server you’re working on is joined to a different domain from your corporate identity. Now this makes it tricky to add users to your TFS Security Groups from … Continue reading →

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National SPUG Tour

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

So Matt Smith of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group has organised a national tour for the various SPUGs that are active here in New Zealand. I’ll be talking in Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch over the space of a week. The … Continue reading →

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Announces the VSeWSS version 1.2!

Posted on June 10, 2008 by

Excellent! Now all you SharePoint developers out there using VSeWSS who are itching to start using Visual Studio 2008 can do so ) Read the full details in a posting the SharePoint Team Blog from Chris Johnson (another kiwi flying … Continue reading →

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User Guide for VSeWSS 1.1 released

Posted on May 13, 2008 by

Microsoft have just released the full version of the user guide for VseWSS 1.1. For a little more information, read Paul Andrew’s blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/05/12/announcing-visual-studio-extensions-for-sharepoint-developer-user-guide.aspx Download if from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787&displaylang=en Also, take a look at the authors

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VSeWSS 1.0 and solution.xml

Posted on March 12, 2008 by

So, I have a project that I’m still working on that is using VSeWSS 1.0 project templates. I just got bitten by an issue I knew about from prior experience With this version VSeWSS creates a file called solution.xml in … Continue reading →

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VSeWSS – Depolyment Gotcha!

Posted on March 5, 2008 by

So I’m using VSeWSS on a project at the moment and have just discovered something that I should share. The setup.bat file that is generated to deploy the solution (.wsp) file to your development box is not perfect for use … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con Day 2

Posted on February 13, 2008 by

There were two keynote speakers this morning. Rajesh Jha who spoke about the new Office Live Small Business offering, the idea here is to provide a suite of hosted of services that provide WCM, contact management and online sales systems … Continue reading →

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Office Dev Con Day 1

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

The first day started out with a Keynote talk from Bill Gates, he spoke very well, as you’d expect of someone of that calibre, he showed his sense of humour well by showing the “Last day at work” video. Bill … Continue reading →

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