SP2010 and VS2010

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Released

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:01:44 GMT

Many of you know that I have been involved in an advisory role with the Patterns & Practice team for SharePoint. Yesterday the P&P team wrapped up the 2010 guidance for developing apps using SharePoint 2010. If you are a SharePoint developer then at an absolute minimum, you MUST read the documentation that is included in the downloads. The P&P team has some of the best guidance on the various topics covered. Also included in the download is code that will provide some core infrastructure to your SharePoint 2010 projects such as logging and configuration.

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 is located at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770300.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Hangs after Visual Studio 2010 F5 Debugging

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:58:44 GMT

Lately I have been having some issues with debugging a fairly simple Visual Studio 2010/SharePoint 2010 project. Whenever I deploy the project to the farm, Internet Explorer launches, tries to connect to the SharePoint site and more often than not the web server times out before the debugger is attached and the site is up and running. Occasionally it loads after a long wait period but will normally time out before I get a chance to do any real debugging.

Watching VS 2010 I can see that the Visual Studio has packed and deployed the solution quickly. What I notice was the symbols loading slowly. This was noticeable because VS displays the symbols loading at the bottom of the screen. Normally these will load quick enough that they are hard to read. Now I had time to write them by hand.

Retraction of the solution by VS2010 performed quickly. If I did a Ctr-F5 to Run with out Debugging the solution was deployed and the site was displayed very quickly which makes sense because the debugger was not trying to attach to the process.

After doing some Binging on symbols slow to load there seems to be a set of potential reason why Visual Studio ( and not just VS 2010) will slow down when loading symbols. Most issues relate to someone changing the location to retrieve the symbols such as Microsoft ( internet latency) and having networked drives that were not attached ( time outs waiting on the drives). There was even an article about multiple version of the .Net framework potentially causing an issue. None of these issues appeared to be the cause of the problem. I even went as far as doing a repair on VS 2010.

After more digging, I ran across a single forum thread that someone commented on the fact that the debugger was slow to attach because of a "bad" breakpoint. Basically the post suggested that a breakpoint that might have been valid at one time, was no longer valid for whatever reason and the debugger was stumbling over it slowing down the attachment process.

The solution to my issue? Simply delete all the breakpoints in the project. Right after I deleted all the breakpoints Visual Studio deployed the solution and the site launched in seconds, not minutes. It appears that deleting all the breakpoints using the "Delete All Breakpoints" menu item under the Debug menu removed all valid and "invalid" breakpoints and let me get back to work which for today is a custom Web Part using Model View Presenter.

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools Available

Darrin Bishop — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:56 GMT

Mike Morton and the Visual Studio team that created the SharePoint tools have released a VS 2010 SP Power Tools pack. The Power Tools pack includes a Visual Web Part that can be deployed as part of a Sandbox Solution and an extension to display build errors when a developer inadventantly uses types or members in a sandbox solution that are not allowed.

For those who have not yet used a Visual Web Part it is a Web Part that encapsulates a user control which allows for a very nice design experience but up until now it was not allowed in a Sandbox solution. The ability to create a Visual Web Part and place it in the sandbox will make it easier to deploy Web Parts. Hats of to Mike and the VS team!

Download the VS 2010 SharePoint Power Tools at:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9