Office Development with Visual Studio : SharePoint 2010

Office 2010 Beta & SharePoint 2010 Beta Now Available to the Public (Beth Massi)

VSTO Team — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:54:34 GMT

Monday Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta were released to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Today it was announced at PDC that these are available to the rest of the public! Come and get it…

Office 2010 Beta

SharePoint 2010 Beta

These Betas are compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which was released to the public a few weeks ago. We’ve also started a series on Channel 9 on SharePoint development in Visual Studio so check that out starting with:

Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

Also check out…

Office 2010 resources

SharePoint 2010 Resources

And stay tuned here for more posts on Office Development with Visual Studio 2010!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

32bit Visual Studio and 64bit Office (Christin Boyd)

VSTO Team — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:44:05 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 will ship with a 32bit version, and no 64bit version. My team built a very smart layer into Visual Studio 2010 to enable designers and debuggers that work with 64bit Office 2010 and 64bit SharePoint Server 2010.

For a good explanation of why the Visual Studio team chose to only build a 32bit version for the next release, you can find a blog post by Rico Mariani titled “Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet)”

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only. You can learn more about the requirements of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on the SharePoint Team Blog entry “Announcing SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements” If you plan to build solutions for the next generation of SharePoint Server, then I recommend budgeting to purchase 64bit hardware.

-Christin Boyd, Program Manager, Visual Studio

Developing for Office and SharePoint Server 2010 (Christin Boyd)

VSTO Team — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:08:42 GMT

I get a lot of questions about the future.

When will Office and SharePoint release? First half of 2010.
Is VSTO part of Microsoft’s long term strategy? Yes! The Office tools shipped in VS 2008 and will ship in VS 2010 with lots of cool new improvements. We strongly encourage and support .NET development on the Office and SharePoint platforms.
Will there be better Team Development tools for Office and SharePoint developers? Yes! Future blog posts will tell you more.
Are there any pricing changes? See below note on SharePoint Designer.
Can I get Office 2010 Beta or SharePoint Server 2010 Beta? Yes, eventually. A few thousand enterprises, small businesses, developers, ISVs, Partners, schools and families have been invited to join an early private “technical preview” beta, and the rest of the world will get to test a later public beta. No dates have been announced. Read the Computer World article on the Office Beta.
Should I sanitize my keyboard to prevent the H1N1 flu? Yes, but don’t put it in the dishwasher like my internship roommate did after a cola spill. It was hilarious, and half the keys still worked!

In the coming months you will see a few more blog posts about the future and plenty of blog posts about developing today with Visual Studio 2008. For now, I’d like to review all of the official posts that Microsoft has released about developing SharePoint Server 2010 solutions:

Press Release on SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Designer is now FREE

Soma’s blog post “SharePoint tools support in Visual Studio”

Official Visual Studio 2010 home page

PDF of the Official Visual Studio 2010 Product Overview

Channel9 Interview with the Lead Program Manager designing the Office and SharePoint tools in VS 2010

If I’ve forgotten any of the official Microsoft announcements in this post, then please leave a comment with a link. Thanks!

-Christin Boyd, Program Manager