Does anyone have any good links for developing custom field and content types that doesn't involve using VSeWSS? Most of the stuff I have seen on the web requires installing VSeWSS, I would rather build them from scratch with just VS2005.
Thanks
Sry don't know about Custom Content types, yet ... hoping an other poster will fill in.
CheGueVerra
2008-10-30 18:52:07
Thanks for the reply, CheGue. I will test those links out.
AdamBT
2008-10-30 19:23:30
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Not sure about Custom Content Types either. However, if you want to avoid VSeWSS, is using another Visual Studio add-in an option? WSPBuilder includes templates for Custom Field types.
DylanW
2008-10-30 19:14:49
I would like to do it the first time with no add-ins. I am sure once I have a good idea about what all needs to be done, I will start using a tool to streamline the process. Thanks for the reply!
AdamBT
2008-10-30 19:21:57
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I understand the idea of doing it by hand first without a tool to help.
But, you will end up creating a lot of xml by hand. It will really hurt and take a long time.
I would recommend STSDev personally. Use it to create the solution and features for the custom content types and fields, including any custom controls.
Once the package has been created, you can then reverse engineer it to find out the nuts and bolts of how the whole thing holds together.
If you do it on a virtual machine, you can still keep a virgin 2005 install to roll back to when you want to.
I believe this will increase the time to understand what is going on with Content Types and Fields.
Nat
2008-10-30 19:59:18
Thanks Nat! I will take your advise into consideration. I am a glutton for punishment, though. How could I ever really appreciate these tools if I don't first throw myself headfirst at the wall a couple times. :)
AdamBT
2008-10-30 20:05:53
I love stsdev. It doesn't do some of the things that VSeWSS does, but it is much easier to figure out what's going on, and you can modify the stsdev source if you need to. Much more transparent. Two thumbs up.
Chris Farmer
2008-11-05 07:37:36
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Check out rapid tools and SPDeploy:
http://rapid-tools.googlecode.com
SPDeploy allows you to locally dev a solution using visual studio and deploy a automatically generated wsp remotely.
Clint Simon
2008-11-05 07:00:21
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The MOSS Feature Generator on CodePlex is a very robust tool that creates features from existing site data, which means you can create everything you want using the GUI and then export it as features. This is very handy for learning how to create things as well as actually converting existing things into features. It works with Content Types, Site Columns, Lists, etc.
bzlm
2009-01-28 14:07:12