SharePoint Tips and Tricks, Best Practices and Recommendations

Sharepoint Tools Overview for Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008

I used to use a couple of tools in WSS/MOSS development which covered 90% of all functionality. These tools are

• Sharepoint Spy
• WSS Extensions for Visual Studio 2005

but when I switched on Windows 2008 Server + Visual Studio 2008 I noted that these tools are not supported there. Sharepoint Spy can't be installed on Windows 2008 (actually I can, but u need to use ORCA and change MSI); WSS Extensions works with VS 2005 only, and you can't use them with TFS builds.

Well... there is another reality, where you can survive without these tools :)

There I'd like to post the list of other tools which help you to substitute the Sharepoint Spy and WSS Extensions

• Imtech Fields Explorer
• Imtech StsAdm Commands to export List definitions
• Sharepoint Inspector to browse your SharePoint 2007 farm
• Sharepoint Logging Spy to allow real time diagnostics of multiple servers
• SharePoint Visual Studio Project and Deployment Templates to package SharePoint solution properly for deployment
• Visual Studio SharePoint Project Utility Tool Window to customize Sharepoint content creation

I welcome if you post in comments other tools which help you in Sharepoint development, deployment and debugging

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