I have read and followed this awesome post: Getting SPFx working in Visual Studio Online by SPDavid. I got my fingers and tried that guide out. This worked good, I spent some time, though, googling (binging) around to get rid of the SSL Warnings for the remote “localhost” on my Mac. I would like to share this simple instruction on how to trust a self signed certificate from gulp-connect on Mac OS.

Today I found a nice Visual Studio Extension for working with localization and resx files: Resx Resource Manager. This extension provides an additional view in your project and scans all the resx files. I would recommend it to all projects where you have to translate your interface. Here is how it looks in my project: It can also assist with some machine translation from Bing and MyMemory: Another good thing is the Export and Import to and from Excel.

By now TypeScript shouldn’t be something one has to introduce. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. If you haven’t already done it, go and see the intro video for TypeScript, check out a tutorial and visit the typescript playground. There are other javascript libraries which extend javascript and are compatible/compile to javascript: Dart and CoffeeScript. To be honest I had never time to try those.

I haven’t used TFS so much. But I like it so far. It works smoothly, both TFS 2012 (on premises) and TFS Preview (online). I really appreciate that Microsoft has been inspired from git - the world’s best VCS :). For example .tfignore which works exactly like the .gitignore file. It is nice that the non-classic Microsoft dot notation convention for naming the hidden files is chosen. So if you have any files to ignore just do it like you did in your git projects.

If you develop much javascript and css, this is the exension to Visual Studio you just can’t live without: Web Essentials (It is even released for VS2012). You can do many things with it. Here are two examples for simple but very useful functions: 1. Show which browsers support a css attribute: 2. Collapse javascript functions and create #region areas like in C# code: There is much more, like less and coffeescript parsing.

Today I encountered a weird issue, the classic Visual Web Part template was gone in Visual Studio 2012. When I created a Visual WebPart, a webpart was created with a generated .g.cs file, like the sandboxed visual webparts. I am not exactly sure why it happened. According to the MSDN guide Creating Web Parts for SharePoint, the structure of Visual Webparts should be the same as in Visual Studio 2010. It could have happened after I installed the power tools.

Do you like Windows 8 user expirience, as me? Well than you want to try developing sharepoint solutions in Windows 8. Here I will show what I found out. Environment I installed Windows 8 Release Preview as a VMWare machine. Then I installed Visual Studio 2012 RC. Then I followed the steps for installing SharePoint on Windows 8 which are more or less the same as for Windows 7 client install.

A really nice feature is a task list. Just write //TODO something something in your code and it appears in the task list which can be shown through View - Task List in Visual Studio.

Det finns ett sätt att aktivera intellisense för javascript i VS: Klistra in det i ditt js-fil eller aspx: /// <reference name="MicrosoftAjax.js" /> /// <reference path="file://C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Web Server Extensions/14/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/SP.core.debug.js" /> /// <reference path="file://C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Web Server Extensions/14/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/SP.debug.js" /> ```Men tyvärr [kommer det inte funka om du har installerat Resharper](http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/297493). Eller lägg till vanliga script-taggar som beskrivet i boken Sharepoint As Developer Platform: <asp:PlaceHolder ID=“PlaceHolder1” runat=“server” Visible=“false”> </asp:PlaceHolder>

En intressant variant av foreach är ForEach-metoden i List. Titta på det lilla exemplet: private static void SavePlacesToDB(SQLiteConnection cnn, List<dynamic> places) { places.ForEach(obj => SavePlaceToDB(obj, cnn)); } ```Här används även det nya objektet [dynamic](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx) som har kommit i Visual Studio 2010, samt en [lambda expression (=>)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397687.aspx).