Martin Vollmer`s Blog : VS 2005

New Registry File for Developing MOSS2007 Projects in a Workstation (XP or Vista)

martinv — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:51:00 GMT

Now that the new VSeWSS1.1.EXE is released it is time to update the infos on my blog. The steps are basically the same as desribed in my former blog posts regarding VSeWSS.EXE.

First of all you have to install VSeWSS1.1.exe on a Sharepoint Server 2007 machine or image. Then you have access to all the files, that you have to copy to your Workstation.

1. Locate the Sharepoint Templates installed on the server environment and copy them to your Workstation User Templates. You have to navigate to:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp”
and copy the whole Sharepoint Directory to your user Templates Folder on your Workstation. The Path is normally:
“C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#”.
If you want to develop in VB.NET do the same for the Sharepoint Folder in:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VisualBasic”
And copy it to:
“C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic”
Do the same for the Sharepoint Folders in the ItemTemplates Directory. There is only one for CSharp. Navigate to:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp”
And copy the Sharepoint Folder to:
“C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual C#”
2. Copy the complete Folder “Microsoft Sharepoint Developer Tools”, which can be found in “C:\Program Files” on the Server or VPC to your Workstation machine in the same location.

3. In order to register the Projects, Packages and Templates on you Workstation machine you have to add several registry keys to your Registry. Here is the whole stuff, just copy and paste it in a text file and save it with a*.reg extension. Here are the Registry settings for VSeWSS1.1:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\CLSID]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\CLSID\{3c457a27-5d8e-4fab-b1de-c18682146452}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.CSharpSPProject"
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.CSharpSPProject"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\VSeWSS.dll"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\CLSID\{aa9054f9-fbd5-405d-9c31-9f544db39238}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.VisualBasicSPProject"
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.VisualBasicSPProject"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\VSeWSS.dll"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\{593b0543-81f6-4436-ba1e-4747859caae2}]
@="CSharpSPProjectFactory"
"DisplayName"=""
"DefaultProjectExtension"="csproj"
"DisplayProjectFileExtensions"="SharePoint Project Files (*.csproj);*.csproj"
"Language(VsTemplate)"="CSharp"
"Package"="{e57322ed-c1f7-4ac5-955e-d790d474d39e}"
"PossibleProjectExtensions"="csproj"
"ProjectTemplatesDir"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"
"ShowOnlySpecifiedTemplates(VsTemplate)"=dword:00000000
"TemplateGroupIDs(VsTemplate)"="SharePointItemTemplateGroupID"
"TemplateIDs(VsTemplate)"="ContentType,EventReceiver,FieldControl,ListDefinition,ListDefinitionFromContentType,ListInstance,Module,Template,WebPart"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\{9e5d3e2d-e4e2-418e-8d80-2f0da9a94f9a}]
@="SdtProjectFactory"
"DisplayName"=""
"DefaultProjectExtension"="csproj"
"DisplayProjectFileExtensions"="SharePoint Project Files (*.csproj);*.csproj"
"Package"="{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}"
"PossibleProjectExtensions"="csproj"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\{ec05e597-79d4-47f3-ada0-324c4f7c7484}]
@="VisualBasicSPProjectFactory"
"DisplayName"=""
"DisplayProjectFileExtensions"="SharePoint Project Files (*.vbproj);*.vbproj"
"Package"="{e57322ed-c1f7-4ac5-955e-d790d474d39e}"
"DefaultProjectExtension"="vbproj"
"PossibleProjectExtensions"="vbproj"
"ProjectTemplatesDir"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"
"Language(VsTemplate)"="VisualBasic"
"ShowOnlySpecifiedTemplates(VsTemplate)"="0"
"TemplateGroupIDs(VsTemplate)"="SharePointItemTemplateGroupID"
"TemplateIDs(VsTemplate)"="ContentType,EventReceiver,FieldControl,ListDefinition,ListDefinitionFromContentType,ListInstance,Module,Template,WebPart"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage, SPDevTools, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C"
"ID"=dword:00000064
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\SPDevTools.dll"
"CompanyName"="Microsoft"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"MinEdition"="Standard"
"ProductName"="SharePoint Developer Tools"
"ProductVersion"="12.0000.0000.0000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}\SatelliteDll]
"DllName"="SPDevTools.dll"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{e57322ed-c1f7-4ac5-955e-d790d474d39e}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage, VSeWSS, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C"
"ID"=dword:00000064
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\VSeWSS.dll"
"CompanyName"="Microsoft"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"MinEdition"="Standard"
"ProductName"="Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.1"
"ProductVersion"="12.0001.0000.0000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{e57322ed-c1f7-4ac5-955e-d790d474d39e}\SatelliteDll]
"DllName"="VSeWSSUI.dll"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"

If you want to use it with Visual Studio 2008 you have to replace "\8.0\" with "\9.0\" in the whole .reg File.

If ypu want to use it with Visual Studio 2008 on the sharepoint server you have to replace "\WINDOWS\" with "\WINNT\"

There was an anouncement taht the official support for Visual Studio 2008 will be published in June 2008. So my investigation is helpful until then.

!! Once again. No Warranties use at your own risk !!

Developing custom MOSS 2007 Sharepoint Workflows on a remote Workstation

martinv — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Today I tried to do some Workflow Development for MOSS 2007 on my Vista machine (Workstation). After loading a sample Project I encountered the following Error in the Workflow Designer in Visual Studio:

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.intl, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

This DLL is located in the GAC on a MOSS Server 2007 Installation (Server or VPC). So in order to do the Developpment on a Workstation you have to copy two DLLs from your MOSS 2007 Server to your Workstation and add them to the GAC there. The only waay to copy the DLLs out of the GADC is by using the command line here is an example how to do this:

> cd \WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.intl\12.0.0.0__71e9bce111e9429c
> copy microsoft.sharepoint.WorkflowActions.intl.dll c:\
> cd \WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.intl.resources\12.0.0.0__71e9bce111e9429c
> copy microsoft.SharePoint.workflowactions.intl.resources.dll c:\

!! Absolutely no warranties, use at your own risk !!

That’s it! Hope this procedure is helpful to others, who want to develop Workflows for MOSS 2007 now with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 on a Workstation.

Best Regards Martin

Remote WebPart Development with Visual Studio 2008 for MOSS 2007

martinv — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:52:00 GMT

Today the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS are not supported with VS 2008. So the official way to develop Sharepoint Projects like WebParts is that you still have to use Visual Studio 2005 for that purpose. You can install VS 2005 ans VS2008 on the same machine, but why do I have keep the older version of Visual Studio just for Sharepoint Development.Therefore I tried to apply the same procedure described in my previous post for Visual Studio 2005 to my installation of Visual Studio 2008. The only thing that must be changed is the *.reg file which now should look like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\CLSID\{041d4811-6ee8-4c3a-8981-ac53f22cf9cc}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtProject"
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtProject"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\SPDevTools.dll"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\CLSID\{c81fbc80-1a9b-4d76-81e4-bf729a27f9ac}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Forms.DeployPropertyPage"
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.Forms.DeployPropertyPage"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\SPDevTools.dll"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Packages\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}]
@="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage, SPDevTools, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C"
"ID"=dword:00000064
"Class"="Microsoft.SharePoint.Tools.SdtPackage"
"CodeBase"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package\\SPDevTools.dll"
"CompanyName"="Microsoft"
"InprocServer32"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\mscoree.dll"
"MinEdition"="Standard"
"ProductName"="SharePoint Developer Tools"
"ProductVersion"="12.0000.0000.0000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Packages\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}\SatelliteDll]
"DllName"="SPDevTools.dll"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Projects\{9e5d3e2d-e4e2-418e-8d80-2f0da9a94f9a}]
"DisplayName"=""
@="SdtProjectFactory"
"DefaultProjectExtension"="csproj"
"DisplayProjectFileExtensions"="SharePoint Project Files (*.csproj);*.csproj"
"Package"="{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}"
"PossibleProjectExtensions"="csproj"

#[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\NewProjectTemplates\TemplateDirs\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\NewProjectTemplates\TemplateDirs\{bc426e8f-098f-47de-ad66-d11676c41c66}\/1]
@=""
"SortPriority"=dword:00000064
"TemplatesDir"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools\\package"

!! Absolutely no warranties, use at your own risk !!

That’s it! Hope this procedure is helpful to others, who want to develop Web Parts for MOSS 2007 now with Visual Studio 2008.

Perfekt organisiert!

martinv — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:42:00 GMT

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Viele Grüße

Martin