Tag Archives: WSPBuilder

Upgrade your version of WSPBuilder for a more traditional development experience

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Everett Comstock

In many ways a seasoned ASP.Net developer can have a difficult time learning SharePoint 2007 development because they have become accustomed to the practices ascribed to by the Microsoft ASP.Net team. One of these practices is so benign and intuitive, that most developers find it incomprehensible that it is not available when using a WSPBuilder project template. The practice that I am referring to is right clicking your declarative markup and selecting “View Code”. The menu item is not available, because the WSPBuilder Project type is based on the standard C# project type, and does not include the web application project type. Because of this, you cannot add regular web application based items such as web forms and web controls. This has lead many developers, including myself, to develop SharePoint solutions by hand, manually linking our declarative markup and code behind files, all the while not using designers and in some cases intellisense.  
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Using a base web part class when developing SharePoint web parts

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Everett Comstock

When developing solutions for SharePoint 2007, I use WSPBuilder almost exclusively. Carsten Keutmann has created an excellent tool that automates and eases much of the work that is involved in creating a solution for SharePoint. In fact, in some ways, WSPBuilder makes things too easy. When creating a project using the out of the box WSPBuilder project and item templates, it is easy to fall into some bad practices.  
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