Install the Sharepoint Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 in Windows Vista or Windows XP

Another of the areas of interest of the Microsoft Platform are the SharePoint services, which in version 3.0 run on Windows 2003 machines and allow to quickly build intranets, Web applications and Collaboration Systems very integrated with the Windows and Office platform.

However for the developers that use Windows Vista (or Windows XP) in the development machine it has been a bit complicated to develop webparts and other types of projects for sharepoint since they do not install on Windows Vista, this has led us to use virtual machine solutions and so on.

However, searching on the internet I have found the way to install the SharePoint extensions for Visual Studio 2005, which greatly simplifies the development of these projects on my work machine.

The solution is to create the following key in the registry so that the installer executes normally.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftShared ToolsWeb Server Extensions12.0]
“Sharepoint”=”Installed”

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/jannemattila/default.aspx ,

I just tried it and it worked perfectly. Here is a photo of my Visual Studio in Windows Vista ready to create a SharePoint project.

Resources

Windows SharePoint Services

Windows SharePoint Extensions for Visual Studio 2005.

I hope it is of help.

Update Nov 24, 2008: I have been written to by Jesus Arantegui from Spain. He has discovered that this procedure only works when the visual studio is in the same language as the sharepoint extensions, if one downloads the extensions in English, for example, but the VS is in Spanish, it will appear to be well installed but the projects will not appear in the project creation window.

Juan Carlos Peláez

MCTS.

Member of the Microsoft Speaker Group Andino

Member of the Microsoft Influencers Group of Colombia.

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