Sundar Narasiman's Random Musings on .NET and SharePoint : Visual Studio

Learning resources for visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta2

lavssun — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:36:00 GMT

I came across the following useful learning resources of visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta2.

Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Training Course http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/
Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta2 walkthroughs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx
Learning resources for visual studio 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta 2 released

lavssun — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:27:00 GMT

The beta2 of visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 is released. It can be downloaded in msdn. The url is below :-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Setup External Tools Option in Visual Studio

lavssun — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:37:00 GMT

Scenario

I'm more into SharePoint development these days, especially the development of custom web parts. I felt like I need to remember quite a bit of command line tools for SharePoint development, especially sn.exe which is more commonly used in web part development. I was looking for an option in Visual Studio to do this job.

Solution

After a bit of search I’ve found that this can be achieved by leveraging External Tools option in Visual Studio

In Visual Studio 2005 --> Tools -----> External Tools

Click Add button

Enter the Title 'Fetch Public Key'

Under Command, choose the sn.exe from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin

In the Arguments set the value as -Tp "$(TargetPath)" T - retrieves the public key token of the assembly, p - Blob of the public key $(TargetPath) - location where the VS.NET created the assemblySelect 'Use Output Window' optionClick Ok and Apply.Now, we can fetch the public key of the project (assembly)