Can I continue to use Visual Studio 2008 to develop for SharePoint 2010? Or do I need Visual Studio 2010?
I understand that VS2010 makes it easier to deploy and debug but other than that what are the benefits of moving to VS2010? Is VS2010 slower?
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I'd say that developing in VS2010 is quicker, but that is because of the ease you can debug & deploy, hence you spend less time creating/running a script to go ahead and package your project into a solution which is then deployed. You also have good intellisense of CAML, which again saves time.
It's not that VS2010 runs faster or slower, it's that it lets you develop faster.
answered Dec 14, 2010 at 15:35
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1You can get intellisense of CAML in 2008 just as easily by copying over the schemas from the hive. Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 17:01
I highly recommend going to 2010. You'll get the new SPIs (SharePoint Items) and deploying is tons better. I haven't noticed it being slower. The WPF ui in VS2010 is much better on the eyes too. All of our devs upgraded, whether they are programming for SharePoint or not.
answered Dec 14, 2010 at 14:05
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hi Rob, is there any MSFT provided links wherein i can strongly say, VS 2010 is the best IDE for SP 2010 dev?– samolpp2Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 10:19
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Visual Studio 2008 works just fine. Just make sure you get something like WSPBuilder.
Have a look at our series about porting WSPBuilder projects from SharePoint 2007 to 2010.
answered Dec 14, 2010 at 14:49
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Second this. VS 2008 will work just fine if you don't have access to 2010. I even prefer WSPBuilder to VS2010 packaging which likes to add its own naming scheme for features. Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 16:59
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2Ill second it, but after first doing alot of SP2010 work on VS2010 and now having to go back to VS2008 and WSP, I must say I hate it combined to the ease of use with VS2010 OOB tools combined with the excellent CKS:DEV tools Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 19:35