Visual Studio 2010 Add Ins For Sharepoint

Recently the GM of Visual Studio announced and demonstrated what are the features and tools that will be included in Visual Studio 2010 for sharepoint.

It was clear that Microsoft is reducind dev effort for sharepoint projects at an random pace.

Here is the brief summary of the tools that will be included in Visual Studio 2010

• Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio

• Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution

• Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint

• Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.

• Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability

• Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created

  
  

  Want to know more details about Visual Studion 2010 go though the below link and jst wait for 2010 to  be relased :)

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspx