Point2Share | Daniel McPherson's SharePoint Blog

Think this will be the version of Visual Studio that finally takes SharePoint development to the top tier. I’ve made some notes below, but for the full screencast and interview, head over to Channel 9.

• Aimed at tackling the manually tedious aspects of SharePoint Development
  • GUID Matching across multiple files
  • Solution Building and Deployment
• Goal is to make SharePoint Development more approachable
  • Improving the ‘F5’ experience (build and run)
  • Tools to create the artefacts
  • Attaching the debugger
  • Recycling the Application Pool

• Demo
  • New Project Templates - VB and C# (not complete)
    • Blank Site Definition
    • Content Type
    • List Definition
    • State Machine Workflow
    • WSP Import
    • Business Data Catalog
    • Deployment Module
    • Event Receiver
    • Sequential Workflow
    • Web Part
  • Server Explorer
    • Now Supports SharePoint Content
    • Integrates with the property grid
  • Packaging Explorer
    • Visual Representation of the artefacts to be installed
    • WYSIWYG Design Experience for Solutions
  • MSBuild Support
  • Feature Designer