Create a WSS 3.0 or SharePoint 2007 project using Visual Studio 2010 beta 2

Question

I have installed WSS 3.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 on a Windows 2003 x86 VM and I am unable to create a Sharepoint Project. I keep getting the error below.

"A SharePoint server is not installed on this computer. A SharePoint server must be installed to work with SharePoint projects.

I am selecting C# .Net 3.5 as the .Net version and then I am trying to create a Empty SharePoint project. Why do I keep getting the error?

Answer 1

Corey is correct. You will only be able to use VS2010 to create workflows for SharePoint 2007. For all other development on SharePoint 2007 you should stick to VS 2005/2008 with WSPbuilder, STSDEV or VS SharePoint Extensions.

Answer 2

I'm afraid Visual Studio 2010 only supports creating SharePoint project types with SharePoint 2010.

Answer 3

Actually that is possible as soon as you do not want to Debug or Deploy directly from VS2010.

All you need to do is to export from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14 from a machine with SP2010 installed.

Creating a new Visual Studio Sharepoint 2010 project will allow you to build and package a solution targeting MOSS2007, while just modifying the DLL references to from 2010 to 20007 versions.

Registry key settings explained in more details: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010programming/thread/cda807f6-4edf-4efc-8e9b-4d446356c8ae

Building and packaging a solution in more details: http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/07/15/using-visual-studio-2010-sharepoint-templates-to-deploy-a-web-part-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Answer 4

You should check WSP Builder 2010 beta for some backward compatibility.