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matein78 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:09:37 GMT

The SharePoint Software Factory is a Visual Studio Extension helping SharePoint newbies, as well as experienced developers to create, manage and deploy SharePoint solutions without having to know every tiny XML and C# secret.

SPSF provides a huge collection of helpful recipes for development, debugging and deployment of SharePoint standard artifacts and is fully compatible with SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012.

News

2013-04-29 Recommended update. Several bugs fixed, improved SP2013 supporty (Release Notes)
2013-03-27 Fixed bug which caused resources in _layouts folder to be linked falsely (Release Notes)
2013-03-17 First beta release for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

VS2010 version of SPSF.

Your support !!!

We will expand and improve SPSF over time. Our current primary focus is to increase support for SharePoint 2013.
If you want to support this project, you can either extend the SPSF with your own Guidance Package (just download the source code to see how it works) or provide us with ideas, code and feedback for new recipes, which we can include.
If you already have a project at CodePlex with code snippets, web part templates, code for SharePoint artifacts etc. please drop us a note if you want us to include it in SPSF.

About the Authors

Matthias Einig
Matthias works as team lead at Steria AB in Stockholm. He focuses on SharePoint solution architecture, development, application lifecycle management with Team Foundation Server and in general on improving the quality of custom SharePoint solutions.
Blog: www.matthiaseinig.de
Twitter: @mattein

Torsten Mandelkow
Torsten works at Microsoft in Germany and has a passion for high quality SharePoint Code. Starting with SPSF SharePoint Software Factory to make SharePoint development easier and more reusable he now focuses on automizing code quality analysis of SharePoint solutions.
Blog: blogs.msdn.com/b/torstenmandelkow/
Twitter: @tmandelkow

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:17:52 GMT

News

2013-03-27 Fixed bug which caused resources in _layouts folder to be linked falsely (Release Notes)
2013-03-17 First beta release for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

VS2010 version of SPSF.

Your support !!!

About the Authors

New Comment on "Installing the SharePoint Software Factory"

matein78 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:32:27 GMT

Thx, link is corrected!

Updated Wiki: Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

matein78 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:31:52 GMT

Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

Visual Studio 2012 (Release 4.1)

Download and install the MS Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Download and install the GAX 2010 For Visual Studio 2012
Download and install this software factory

Visual Studio 2010 (Release 3.2)
Note: Steps 1-3 can be done directly from the SPSF Installer which you can find in the downloads sections. The installer will guide you through the installation process an help you to fulfill the neccesary prerequisites.

Download and install the GAX 2010
Download and install this software factory

Visual Studio 2008 (Release 3.2)
Note: Steps 1-3 can be done directly from the SPSF Installer which you can find in the downloads sections. The Installer will guide you through the installation process an help you to fulfil the neccesary prerequisites.

Download and install the Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions
Downlad and install the Guidance Automation Extensions Update (GAXP1409)
Download and install this software factory

New Comment on "Installing the SharePoint Software Factory"

MCTroubleB — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:19:27 GMT

Hi! I think, the link to "GAX 2010 For Visual Studio 2012" is not correct. Should be "http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1412659a-622c-47a4-af1e-a3f75afdd79b". Greetz MCTroubleB

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:00:23 GMT

News

2013-03-27 Fixed bug which caused resources in _layouts folder to be linked falsely (Release Notes)
2013-03-17 First beta release for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

VS2010 version of SPSF.

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:01:05 GMT

News

2013-03-27 Fixed bug which caused resources in _layouts folder to be linked falsely (Release Notes)
2013-03-17 First beta release for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:07:32 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First beta release for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Documentation

matein78 — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:56:17 GMT

Documentation of SPSF SharePoint Software Factory

The documentation of SPSF is autogenerated and integrated into Visual Studio as HTML pages.
Download a PDF of the current release in the download section.

Alternatively you can browse the documentation online:

Resources

HowTo's

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:56:00 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First release v4.1 for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:15:56 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First release v4.1 for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTo's

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:13:40 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First release v4.1 for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

HowTos

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Documentation

matein78 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:12:35 GMT

Documentation of SPSF SharePoint Software Factory

Resources

HowTo's

Updated Wiki: Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:34:12 GMT

Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

Visual Studio 2012 (Release 4.1)

Download and install the MS Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Download and install the GAX 2010 For Visual Studio 2012
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the GAX 2010
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions
Downlad and install the Guidance Automation Extensions Update (GAXP1409)
Download and install this software factory

Updated Wiki: Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:33:21 GMT

Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

Visual Studio 2012 (Release 4.1)

Download and install the MS Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Download and install the GAX 2010 For Visual Studio 2012
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the GAX 2010
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions
Downlad and install the Guidance Automation Extensions Update (GAXP1409)
Download and install this software factory

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:31:14 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First release v4.1 for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Home

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:52:06 GMT

News

2013-03-17 First release v4.1 for Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint 2010/2013 (Release Notes)
2012-02-13 New version 3.2 released with new recipes (BCS import, Linq to SharePoint, CAS Policies etc.) and several fixes (Release Notes)

For updates on SPSF follow us on Twitter or visit our blogs (links at the end of the page)

Resources

Supported Configurations

	Visual Studio 2012	Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2008 (english)
SharePoint 2013	yes	no	no
SharePoint 2010	yes	yes	yes
SharePoint 2007	no	yes	yes

Key Features

Get started with professional SharePoint development in less than 5 mins! more
Use powerful wizards to create all important SharePoint artifacts more
Fully integrated in Visual Studio more
Refactoring of artifacts (i.e. Content Types) more
Fully automated build system creates web solutions packages (“WSP”s) and deployment files
Integrated Code quality checks in “Release” build (additional installs required)
All projects are self maintained, meaning that there is no dependency to having SPSF installed on the machine, when you just want to build, or continue development without SPSF
Standard VS2010/VS2013 item templates for SharePoint development can be used together with SPSF projects, though the coding conventions have to be applied by the developers for these items
Extensive Help available directly from Visual Studio or online
Supports SharePoint Visual Studio application structure but also “old” best-practice SharePoint Hive structure (limited to VS2008/VS2010) more
Supports SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 and Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012
Upgrade existing SharePoint projects more

Now download, install and get started with SharePoint development!!!
See Screenshots of SPSF

Video

Your support !!!

About the Authors

Updated Wiki: Documentation

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:46:21 GMT

Documentation of SPSF SharePoint Software Factory

Resources

HowTo's

Updated Wiki: Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:46:03 GMT

Installing the SharePoint Software Factory

Visual Studio 2012 (Release 4.1)
Note: This version hasn't been released yet.

Download and install the MS Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Download and install the GAX 2010 For Visual Studio 2012
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the GAX 2010
Download and install this software factory

Download and install the Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions
Downlad and install the Guidance Automation Extensions Update (GAXP1409)
Download and install this software factory

Updated Wiki: Documentation

matein78 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:45:24 GMT