Project Description

The SmartTemplates for SharePoint project delivers a collection of Visual Studio templates which allow developers to create a range of SharePoint customizations in a painless and professional fashion.

Currently available templates

Web Part Project

The SharePoint Web Part project template for Visual Studio allows developers to create quickly a project which contains the base infrastructure to:

• write the web part code
• generate a SharePoint Solution file (WSP) for easy deployment
• generate a setup package for a wizard driven installation

See the template in action: download the video in WMV format:

SmartPart Web Part Project

The SmartPart Web Part project template for Visual Studio allows developers to create quickly a project which contains the base infrastructure to:

• write a web user control (ASCX)
• wrap the user control in a SmartPart instance
• generate a SharePoint Solution file (WSP) for easy deployment
• generate a setup package for a wizard driven installation

Planned templates

• Event Handler
• Application Page Project
• Suggest your own project template! http://www.codeplex.com/smarttemplates/WorkItem/List.aspx
• Feature

SharePoint Community

The SharePoint SmartTemplates for Visual Studio are free community tools, built by making use of SharePoint community tools! The following tools were used:

• WSPBuilder http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder
• SharePoint Installer http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller