Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Announcement

SharePoint Apps: Alexander Malek's weblog - Welcome to VS extensions for WSS!

"Greetings from TechEd Barcelona! Today, we finally got to announce a project I've been working on for the last year: "Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0". Yup, the name's a mouthful :). Explaining it is pretty easy though - make "F5" work for SharePoint stuff in VS! That's essentially what VSeWSS brings to the table. Once you have it installed, you can actually boot VS, create stuff for WSS and have it work. For example, if you want to build a web part, from the "New Project" dialog in VS, choose "Web Part" under the "C#/SharePoint" node. Add some code and you're done. You can hit F5 and immediately debug your web part. Pretty cool, no?

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Very nice... When/if I get back into the WSS dev biz, this could come in handy.

I'm very glad these VS2005 Extensions are coming out and we don't have to wait for Orcas to ship... (and thereby giving MS time to get Orcas right?)