This week I’ll be attending the Microsoft Build 2016 conference in San Francisco. Lots of news to be expected for developers covering the many technologies Microsoft is putting on the market.

With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 this week a lot of people will start upgrading to the new version. After the installation was complete I noticed the Surface project and item templates were not available. In this post I explain how to get the entries in Visual Studio 2010.

Sometimes you have to split your code into different assemblies. For example when I created a custom Admin Page which inherits from WebAdminPageBase (Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages). The problem with Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages is that it's not deployed to the GAC. When compiling you will get the following message: “CS0122: 'foo.bar.x' is inaccessible due to its protection level” Now you have only one choice: make x public. Or maybe not?

To deploy our code, we create MSI installers using Visual Studio. One problem I encountered is that there is no property available in code to know where the user has chosen to install the application.