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CKS - Development Tools Edition (Foundation)

CKS - Development Tools Edition (Foundation)

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The SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Extensions project (CKSDEV) is a collection of Visual Studio templates, Server Explorer extensions and tools providing accelerated SharePoint 2010 development based on Microsoft's new SharePoint 2010 development tools.
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Development Tools Edition

SharePoint Foundation 2010

 

http://cksdev.codeplex.com

 

 

Overview

The Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition extends the Visual Studio 2010 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 capabilities on your local SharePoint installation.

 

This version is targeted for users running SharePoint Foundation 2010, for the server version gohere.

 

Features

This project provides extensions to four core areas;Environment,Exploration,Content andDeployment.

 

Enhancements to the Visual Studio environment include the new SharePoint References tab available on the Add Reference dialog, allowing you to easily reference any SharePoint assembly without searching the file system or GAC for it.

 

Exploration extends the new SharePoint Explorer with advanced information about SharePoint sites such as the installed Web Parts and Master Pages or the Feature dependencies and elements. Also included in the Explorer are a variety of import functions to bring existing SharePoint items into your active solution.

 

The Content area includes advanced templates such as Linq to SharePoint, Custom Action or Delegate Control. Become extra productive while developing sandboxed solutions using the SharePoint Full Trust Proxy. Utilise the SharePoint Console Application project template to quickly build SharePoint code.

 

Our enhanced Deployment functions give you the ability to utilise quick deployment and almost a dozen other productivity enhancing deployment steps, including automated deployment (per file on change deployment).

 

Find the complete overview of all the CKS Development Tools Edition features on thedocumentation tab of the project site. The CKS Development Tools Edition works with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools.

 

What's new in this release

The current 2.4 release includes the following features:

  • Content Type With Event Receiver SPI - New Content Type with Event Receiver project item template.
  • Web Template SPI - New Web Template project item template.

 

Contribute

If you have a great idea for a deployment tool, template or any other thing that you believe increases developer productivity, contribute! Contact theProject team or add your idea to thediscussion forum. Use the#CKSDev tag to follow and connect with the team on Twitter.

 

About the Community Kit for SharePoint 

The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of editions, components, tools and recommended documentation for SharePoint development. You are currently viewing the edition project site for the Development Tools Edition. To learn about the other editions and components you can go tohttp://www.communitykitforsharepoint.org/default.aspx.


For the latest version of the CKS charter document, clickhere

 

 

   

 

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