Importing Sites into Visual Studio

Working with Visual Studio 2010 is beyond the scope of this book, but you should be aware of the opportunity for importing site templates saved in SharePoint 2010 sites into Visual Studio 2010. As a designer, this provides an ideal means of working hand-in-hand with SharePoint developers. For instance, using SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create sites and then enhance those sites with customizations such as custom list forms and views, master pages, and CSS. Developers can then take the prototyped site into Visual Studio for further enhancement. Visual Studio also enables a developer to package and bundle existing sites and customizations and deploy those files to an entire SharePoint farm as opposed to ...

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