Development

Peter Holpar showed us how to extend the Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint. Implementation The creation of a Visual Studio Extension is basically a custom class that implements some interfaces. The biggest problem is that the documentation is not that good – Peter told us that it needs a lot of debugging to get things working. PreReqs Get the Visual Studio 2012/2013 SDK and you need, of course, an installed SharePoint because of the assemblies.

A good day for automation lovers! @avishnyakov (http://spdevlab.com/) contributed 5 SharePoint packages to my ChocolateySharePointPackages repository. See his blog post here. Added packages! Today I pushed them to the chocolatey gallery and you can install them with 1 line of PowerShell. cinst PowerGUIVSX Installs the PowerGui Visual Studio Extension cint SP2013PreReqs Installs all SharePoint 2013 PreRequisites cinst SPSF Installs the SharePoint Software Factory cinst SPCAF Installs the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework Want more?

I mentioned Chocolatey and Powershell quite often in the last time, today I created two little helpers and uploaded them to the chocolatey gallery. The two super-awesome (and simple) packages called SharePoint.HiveShortcut.Desktop and SharePoint.HiveShortCut.Explorer - and the name indicates it, they create shortcuts to the hive folder. I could just upload the two lines of powershell on this blog, but I totally like the Chocolatey approach - makes it easy for everyone.