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New Post: Visual Studio 2010

austegard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:11:34 GMT

Based on advice from Bjørn Furuknap (@furuknap, http://furuknap.blogspot.com/2009/11/using-wspbuilder-for-sharepoint-2010.html) I was able to deploy to SP 2010 a rather complex WSPBuilder-based SharePoint solution that I first recompiled in VS 2010.

Steps were:

Download the commandline version, with the x64 cablib dll
Upgrade your VS 2008/2005 solution to VS 2010
Replace your 12 references with their 14 equivalents - most will be found in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI
Compile your VS solution - this SHOULD work
Use the wspbuilder command line tool to create, but not deploy your wsp (use wspbuilder -help for instructions)
Use stsadm -o addsolution -filename <yourwsp> to deploy the solution

New Post: Accessing Resources from User Controls

emorgoch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:59:07 GMT

I'm trying to create a web part that includes a user control that needs access to a couple images and a CSS file for formatting. I used these instructions to configure WSPBuilder to allow me to build the user control, and read this article about including resources for my web part. However, trying to access the resources from the wrapped user control is causing some errors. If the resources are embedded and the Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl() method is used from the user control, the WebResource.axd URL is returned, neither the images nor the CSS file actually loads. If I try using a linked resource, and accessing it with the SPWebPartManager.GetClassResourcePath() method, I get an error stating "A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type is not registered as safe."

As a workaround, I can create properties in my User Control to store the appropriate URLs, then from the web part class that calls Page.LoadControl(), I can execute the above methods successfully, and pass the returned results to the User Control.

Is this the appropriate path to take, or is there some configuration issue that I've missed?

Thanks,

Evan

New Post: Linked Files Issue

keutmann — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:22 GMT

Its not possible to use Linked file in Visual Studio for WSPBuilder. The reason for this is that WSPBuilder do not read the Visual Studio .csproj file, but only the folder struture and the files within them. Therefore WSPBuilder will not build the files that are linked files, you have to copy the files in order to get them build.

New Post: Linked Files Issue

AliZaiter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:21:24 GMT

Hello,

When you add linked files under some folder(like the GAC) in visual studio the wsp builder project they will be ignored and will not be packaged with the generated wsp.

Note that i am talking about linked files and not actual files. I need to use linked files because my webparts are created in a different project than the one used to generate the wsp and i don't need to keep copying them when they are updated.

Hope there is a solution for this problem.

Thanks,

New Post: How to include dlls of library projects in wsp?

JTummers — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:33:00 GMT

Hi,

This exact problem, I also encountered. It is because assemblies already in the GAC are not copied to the output directory by Visual Studio.

One possible solution is to create a post build script, which copies the required the assemblies to the directory WSPBuilder looks in.

Good luck!

New Post: Visual Studio 2010

fmuntean — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:59 GMT

Thank you for looking out for the poor souls that will be a whilestill developing on SP2007.

I am currently looking to upgrade to SP2010 but I relly too much on the WSP builder extensions during the development that I can't leave withouth it.

Please let us know if you need any help

New Post: Strong name key file

dmccollough — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:40 GMT

Agreed, I know I can change it after the fact.

What I was hoping for was a way to tell WSPBuilder to use an existing .snk file when creating the initial project, thus saving the steps of having to remove the one it creates and add in the one I want to use.

Thanks

New Post: Why is cablib.dll deployed to GAC?

keutmann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:11:55 GMT

You have to make sure that CABLIB.DLL is not located under Bin / GAC or 80 folders. Then it will not be included.

New Post: Change the scope value

keutmann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:10:16 GMT

The scope your are talking about is located in the WebPart's feature.xml file and can be changed easily.

New Post: Strong name key file

keutmann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:07:17 GMT

You can change the strong name key for every project in Visual Studio, just look in the Signing tab of the properties for your Visual Studio project.

New Post: Visual Studio 2010

keutmann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:03:49 GMT

I currently working on a WSPBuilder for SharePoint 2010. Then I'll look at enabling WSPBuilder Extensions for Visual Studio 2010.

New Post: VS 2008 Extensions doesn`t appears on right click.

sulabh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:19:48 GMT

Hi i have both vs2005 and vs2008 the context menu for WSPBuilder appears in vs2005 but not in vs2008 even in tools->add in manager i cannot find anything. well i sucessfuly created the wspbulkder project. Can any one tell me whats wrong .

New Post: Visual Studio 2010

mattblodgett — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:54 GMT

Has anyone gotten WSPBuilder working with Visual Studio 2010?

If so, please help out a poor soul and post the steps that it took to do this.

I've googled my brains out and all I could find was this post. I've extracted every scrap of useful information I can out of that post, but all it can offer is a few out-of-context snippets of information that don't tie into a coherent story.

New Post: Strong name key file

dmccollough — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:31:02 GMT

Is there a way to make WSPBuilder always use the same Strong name key file (.snk) ?

Currently when I create a new WSPBuilder project it generates a new one, can't I just use one for all of my projects ?

New Post: Change the scope value

lightzout — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:53:43 GMT

hi,

i am just new to wspbuilder and i am wondering if it is possible to change scope afterwards, because i have downloaded sourcecode of some projects here at codeplex and they were not displayed in my sharepoint. I know that you have to set the scope value to "Site" in order to display the webpart in the gallery and s.o. (had some issues before and started a new project when i was developing my own webparts and never found an option to change the scope).

I have imported the project into my VS and it already has the right structure to use with WSPBuilder, the way i see it, i only have to set the right scope and i am ready to go.

Any ideas/solutiions?

regards pascal

New Post: Why is cablib.dll deployed to GAC?

ethandeng — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:26:59 GMT

After I ran the build and openned the manifest.xml in WSP, I saw next.

I am wondering why the <Assembly Location="cablib.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" />

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

- <!--

 Solution created by WSPBuilder. 10/22/2009 2:04:29 PM

-->

- <Solution SolutionId="84556a87-8b42-416a-93e7-655273307f3e" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

- <Assemblies>

- <Assembly Location="SPGuidField.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache">

- <SafeControls>

</SafeControls>

</Assembly>

</Assemblies>

- <TemplateFiles>

</TemplateFiles>

- <FeatureManifests>

</FeatureManifests>

</Solution>

New Post: Missing public key Token

panoone — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:58:51 GMT

That's great but rather then delete it duirng post-build, can we not just delete it altogether?

I have a project which to date had been building the WSP with no problem. On the last build I noticed that the file size was a lot larger than it needed to be because this DLL had been added. I'm not referencing it and don't ever recall adding it manually. It can't be pulling it from the GAC because I'm developing locally on my XP box and the DLL does not exist in the GAC!

Only possible I can think is that another developer workign directly on one of the MOSS servers inadvertently had it added to the project and then blindly committed it to SVN.

New Post: WSPBuilder Not Showing Up in VS

swruiz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:37:31 GMT

go to tools->add in manager and check 'wspbuilder'

New Post: VS 2008 Extensions doesn`t appears on right click.

swruiz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:36:15 GMT

go to tools->add in manager and check 'wspbuilder'

New Post: how to deploy workflow using WSPBuilder

pxw — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:52:11 GMT

I created a workflow using vs.net 2008 in development environment. I successfully deployed it to the SharePoint using WSPBuilder-Studio menu “Deploy”, it works great!

Now I want to deploy this workflow into production. Could someone help me to point out the instruction how to do it for production environment? Could you please advice on how to create a deployment package for a workflow that can be deployed in remote SharePoint server?

Thnaks in advance,

Peter