Visual Studio 2010

In this practice, we are going o read a couple of texts about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and then we are goind to summarize them.

But first of all, our first task is to read about Visual Studio 2010: Visual Studio is a pack or suite of development tools, with its own development environment. With this we can create our own applications, web sites or services, or other complements for Microsoft programs. It supports different programming languages such as C, C++, C# and Visual Basic. We can buy it here, or we can download a trial version here.

First technical article it it about how to build Visual Stuudio projects with TFS Team Build 2010. This will allow to create our own projects for Visual Studio without having Visual Studio installed. First of all, we need to have installed (or to install if not) some features like Team Build, the platform .NET Framework 4, Windows SDK, and the DSL Assembly. If we have created a VS project before, the project settings will be automatically applied to our new project file. If not, we must set some features manually. Another thing that we need to import manually is the certificate; We must to download it and to encrust it in our project. After this, we can make a new project as usual.

Second article it is about how to build SharePoint Projects with TFS Team Build. Like the other example, we have to install Team Build, the platform .NET Framework 4, Windows SDK, and the DSL Assembly, and in this case, we need the SharePoint Assemblies too and copy the SharePoint Tool Assemblies and files to the GAC. Then, we can build our SharePoint project, and finally we have to create a WSP package by adjusting the parameter /p:IsPackaging=True in the UI, and activate the package to the MSBuild command-line arguments.