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What’s New for SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2012

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Now that the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is released (31 may) it is the question, what kind of new features there are in Visual Studio 2012 when you are looking at SharePoint Development.

Most of the time the release candidates that Microsoft releases contain all of the features that should be in the Final Release.

Some of the new features to facilitate SharePoint Development are:

  • Create Lists and Content Types by Using New Designers
  • Create Site Columns
  • Create Silverlight Web Parts
  • Publish SharePoint Solutions to Remote SharePoint Servers
  • Test SharePoint Performance by Using Profiling Tools
  • Create Sandboxed Visual Web Parts
  • Improved Support for Sandboxed Solutions.
  • Support for JavaScript Debugging and IntelliSense for JavaScript
  • Streamlined SharePoint Project Templates
  • Test Your Code by Using Microsoft Fakes Framework

You can read all about it on this MSDN page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee290856(v=vs.110).aspx

Review: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook

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Recently I have been asked to review a new SharePoint 2010 book named “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook” written by Ed Musters.

When I received the book I expected a book with a lot of recipes to get things done in SharePoint. The sub-title off the book “Over 45 recipes to take you from beginner to professional in SharePoint Development” made me expect to really learn how things are done within SharePoint.

The book starts off with a recipe to create a SharePoint development environment. The way this is done in the book is not that representative to a real world scenario. Installing everything on the same account van cause serious issues when you are working within DTAP environments.

The rest of the book consists off all kind of different recipes that you can use separately. The main problem that I had with the recipes was that they don’t go very deep into the subject. This makes the sub-title from beginner to professional not really true.

It was ok to read this book but I do not recommend it!!