Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:46:05 GMT

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re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Mikael Söderström — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:47:23 GMT

Well, I guess I´ll have to wait then. I use VS 2008 and 64-bit, so I´m not one of the lucky ones. :-(

Sounds great though, keep up the good work!

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Steve C — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:57:41 GMT

Have been looking forward to these extensions. I've just converted a project over to the RTM version and have successfully deployed the solution to a new site. However if I try and redeploy the solution (without making any changes) it fails with a rather cryptic

System.ArgumentException

Error: Value does not fall within the expected range.

Have been having problems with this all day - don't expect to be having problems as basic as this with an RTM... will report back if I find a problem with my environment.

Anyone else experience this?

BTW - is a more verbose log file generated by the extensions?

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chjohn — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:07:38 GMT

Hi Steve,

Do you have any feature receivers in your project? It sounds like some code might be running when the solution is deployed/Activated and that code is failing. Also since it is only when you redeploy i suspect it is in some deactivation code.

Failing that i would manually retract the solution, remove it (via central admin) and try the deploy again.

Thanks,

Chris.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chapmandu — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:29:07 GMT

Hi Chris, I don't have feature receivers (plenty of event receivers though), but I think it was something else going wrong as there's no longer a problem.

Steps to resolve...

First - I discovered that deleting the generated pkg folder resolved the problem. But this was not an option as this re-gens all the feature id's so it breaks all instantiated objects based on old features...

Second - I haven't had a chance to verify yet but I had some other projects open in the VS solution, and I tried removing them. Since removing them the extensions are working great - which is very good news! For completeness it would be interesting to see if the extension test plans included other types of project?

FYI - the other types of projects in the solution were : Report Server, Web Site (for SmartPart dev) and a Setup Project. I'm guessing, but do the extensions use reflection to resolve features in all open solutions - maybe this was causing the error?

Strange why it was happening 'after' the first deploy though... i guess I was trying so many different things to resolve that I may have missed what actually fixed it. Appreciate the hints.

Steve

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chapmandu — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:51:02 GMT

Chris,

Found a problem with Report Server project being included in the solution - WSP View gives an error on refresh 'Error parsing solution'? Removed and all is great

Regards

Steve

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

John — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:59:08 GMT

It appears you removed the ability to easily enable event hanlders through the project properties screen. Is writing the XML for these handlers the only way to enable them in this new version of the extensions?

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chjohn — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:14:27 GMT

Hi John,

In the RTM 1.1 release you can add an event handler by adding an "Event Handler" project item to the VSeWSS project. Or, you when you are adding a List Definition to the project you can optionally choose to generate an event handler by ticking the box "Add with event receiver" at that time.

Let me know if this answers your question.

Thanks,

Chris.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Corey Dutson — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:14:11 GMT

Hello!

I'm getting an error, and I cannot figure out why! I add a Blank Site Definition to my Solution, build it, and deploy. This works great.

When I try to deploy again I am presented with a System.ArgumentException when it hits the 'Creating solution ...'

The error is a very descriptive 'Value does not fall within the expected range.'

Any thoughts? To reiterate I have not added anything to this project yet, it is nothing but generated files.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Wouter — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:03:33 GMT

This post (http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2007/12/15/building-a-simple-asp-net-page-based-sharepoint-application-in-visual-studio-with-the-visual-studio-extensions-for-wss-ctp-1-1.aspx) was way more helpful than this userguide.

Could you maybe update that post?

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

gdmccarty — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:23:14 GMT

Any update on the vs2008 support?

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chjohn — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:28:09 GMT

Hi gdmccarty,

We are in the process of building version 1.2 as we speak. That will have VS2008 support. Expect this in June. I know that is a way off ... but hang on in there!

-Chris.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chjohn — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:32:49 GMT

Hi Wouter,

I have been meaning to update that post now that the RTM bits are out. I have been really busy recently and have not found the time. Thanks for prompting me to do this. I will try to get to it in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks,

Chris.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Fadi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:56:53 GMT

Hi All

When creating a list definition project in vs2005 the folder that contains allthe files of the list definition and event handler always has the name "ListDefinition1".

can anyone help me how can I make the folder has the name of the project???

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Sorin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:55:57 GMT

count me as another one that really wants x64 support

Thanks

Sorin

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Valdon — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:16:45 GMT

Here it is, April 30th. What's the new ETA for the guide?

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

chjohn — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:48:26 GMT

Hey Valdon,

The fully released guide is available here now: http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/05/13/windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-tools-visual-studio-2005-extensions-user-guide-version-1-1.aspx

-Chris.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Ingo — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:45:04 GMT

64-Bit and VS2008-support would be great.

Great work anyway. Wish you success!

Thanks

Ingo

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

Hasan — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:10:49 GMT

Hello,

I got the VS WSS ext 1.1, but the thing is it won't install before uninstalling the previous version. And the problem is that the extension is not showing in the Add/Remove programs :S! .... How can I uninstall the previous version of the extension??

Thanks.

re: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.

LenReinhart — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:45:59 GMT

Hi Chris,

It is June and I am about to start a new SharePoint project. What does it look like for VS2008 support for WSS 3.0? I am trying to decide whether to wait for VS2008 support or start using VS2005?

Thanks,

Len