VSeWSS Import Tool – Think “VS2008/SharePoint 2007 to VS2010/SharePoint 2010 Upgrade/Migration” Tool

Paul Andrew - VSeWSS Import Tool Released

“We completed and published the SharePoint VSeWSS Import tool. This tool is an add-in to Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new SharePoint project template for importing a VSeWSS project.

VSeWSS or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services are the Microsoft tools for creating SharePoint 2007 projects on Visual Studio 2008. In Visual Studio 2010 we have built in tools for creating SharePoint 2010 projects. This import tool takes a VSeWSS project that is targeted at SharePoint 2007 and migrates it to Visual Studio 2010 where it is targeted at SharePoint 2010.

The import tool is distributed as source code so you will need to compile it before using it …”

MSDN Code Gallery - VSeWSS Import Tool for Visual Studio 2010

“Use this tool to import a VSeWSS project that you created in Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2007 using the VSeWSS extensions. The tool imports projects into Visual Studio 2010 and the resulting projects target SharePoint 2010. The tool runs as a Visual Studio 2010 project template and it is available here as source code and contains a powershell script to build a VSIX file that can be directly installed into Visual Studio 2010.

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Help for those who are making the VS2010/SharePoint 2010 move (either today or in the future). Nice to see the source included (well actually its manditory since it’s a Source Only release and you need to compile it before you can use it, but you get the idea)

From the included readme.docx;

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This tool is provided as sample source code for a Visual Studio 2010 extension. After it is compiled the extension can be added into Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new project template to the SharePoint 2010 folder. When you create a project from this new template you are prompted to import a project that was created by Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS). The project can then be edited, upgraded and compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and tested and deployed to SharePoint 2010.

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