Where I can find website administrator tools? I tried to find in
There isn't any similar tool.
Microsoft just removed it for no reason (they are evil)... it`s easier if you just use VS2010 ou VS2012 to configure users and roles with Administration Tool, then go back to VS2013... or you can configure an extension like this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/08/19/asp-net-web-configuration-tool-missing-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx?PageIndex=2#comments
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Main issue: I need to develop an automated way to create new SharePoint pages when an item is added to a SharePoint list. For example, we have a list of projects, and when a new project is added to the list, we want a custom website for that project to automatically be created from a template.
What I've tried: I have been researching this a lot, and it sounds like SharePoint Event Receivers can do what I need. So I got Visual Studio (both Visual Studio and SharePoint are 2010). However, I still cannot automate my child pages. I get an error message when I try to do anything SharePoint-related in Visual Studio: "A SharePoint server is not installed on this computer. A SharePoint server must be installed to work with SharePoint projects."
My organization is not big on new software, so getting more than Visual Studio is probably not possible. In addition, I will not be granted admin rights, so I don't know if I will even be able to use Visual Studio. (Also I'm pretty sure my SharePoint is not locally installed, but I don't know much about software set-up/configuration...I just want it to work so I can code!) I do have full rights to the SharePoint site, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Is there a way to solve this issue with only coding in SharePoint? Or is there a way to do it with just Visual Studio (non-admin) and SharePoint?
In order to develop solutions for SharePoint 2010 you need to have SharePoint 2010 installed on your dev machine. You can install SharePoint 2010 Foundation which is free.
Before you start development you need to decide which kind of solution you gonna create - sandboxed solution or farm solution.
Sandboxed solution has some limitations in functionality but you do not need admin access to the server to deploy it, only site collection administrator rights on site collection.
On the other hand farm solution allows you to use any available SharePoint object model APIs. But to deploy it you need to have admin access to the server (or at least IT guy with admin access who can run some ps scripts).
The decision mostly depends on what are you going to develop. If you have some requirements which do not fit for sandboxed solution then you have to go with farm solution.
From what you've described I think sandbox solution is enough.
I very much want to find a download of CIM Studio.
If one Googles enough, one discovers that CIM Studio is now part of the WMI Administrative Tools and one finds a link identical or similar to:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6430F853-1120-48DB-8CC5-F2ABDC3ED314
If one follows that link, one is redirected to a politely apologetic page explaining that the requested page is now gone and offers a Bing search using the appropriate keywords. The VERY FIRST link offered by Bing is the identical Microsoft link which fails.
EDIT: The above link now works properly again, but successfully running CIM Studio on Windows 7+ is not straight-forward.
Anyone know how to properly install CIM Studio?
Since it took me a bit to learn these nuances of getting WMI CIM Studio to run under Windows 7 or Windows 8 and IE11 (IE9 or later), I thought I'd share it here...
Install CIM Studio (WMI Administrative Tools, as indicated in #knb's answer)
Add <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> into the <HEAD> section ahead of SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBS" in the C:\Program Files (x86)\WMI Tools\studio.htm file. This override is necessary because CIM Studio uses VBScript code and IE11+ has dropped support for that.
Create a shortcut to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\WMI Tools\studio.htm"
Configure the shortcut to run as Admin (Properties -> Advanced...)
Another option is to use Microsoft WMI Code Creator instead.
The Microsoft links seems to be broken, but you can use the CNET Download.com site WMI Administrative Tools
These days, the WMITools.exe file can be retrieved directly from Microsoft again, at
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24045
It can be found easily with a simple google search for "cim studio".
Looks like all download reasources from Microsoft are going to disappear.
A good open-source alternative for CIM Studio is WMI Explorer which you can download from here: https://github.com/vinaypamnani/wmie2/releases
We're looking into migrating to TFS 2010 in the next few weeks. However, we're unclear on what kind of tools are required for the team. We know developers need Visual Studio but what tooling is required for Project Managers and Testers that will ONLY need to manage work items? Do they also need Visual Studio to just view and edit work items?
Project Managers and Testers can use the following methods to access TFS 2010
The web access portal - this allows the ability to create/run queries of work items, and even view source/builds if they want
Excel/Project - Both have integrate with TFS. You are able to load work items directly into Excel/Project, edit them, and publish them back to TFS.
Visual Studio with Team Explorer only - This is a barebones installation of VS, with the Team Explorer only. It doesn't take all that long to install, but it will say "Visual Studio" when launched. Not sure if that is scary to testers/project managers.
Web access provides a good complete set of functionality, but having VS/Team Explorer will provide a rich client experience (read: faster, more responsive).
Additionally, in order to get the Excel/Project integration, you'll need at least the VS/Team Explorer installed on the client box, even if they never use VS. And you need a CAL (Client Access License) to use the web access portal.
So to summarize, TFS provides a lot of ways for the non-developer to interact with the system, but all of them require a CAL, and most of them require installing VS/Team Explorer on the client machine.
In short, they don't need Visual Studio. They can use Team System Web Access (formerly known as TFS Web Access) to do pretty much everything a developer can do, except associate a check-in with a work item. After you install TFS 2010, you simply browse to http://yourserver:8080/Tfs/web and you're in!
Project Managers (and all other team members) can also work with work items from Outlook using 3rd party TFS client embedded in Outlook: TeamCompanion www.teamcompanion.com. This way, assuming they otherwise use Outlook, they wouldn't need to change tools or use any additional tools at all.
As is the case with Excel or Project integration they would still need a TFS CAL and additionally a TeamCompanion license.
TeamCompanion supports much more than just work item management: Email/TFS integration, SQL Server Reports, SharePoint document integration and much more...
Full Disclosure: I am the Product Owner of TeamCompanon, so I may be biased :-).
There is a web front end which you can use to manage the work items. There is also integration to Excel and MS Project.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181304.aspx for more information on Team Foundation Clients
I am trying to install Visual Studio 2008 at a university's computer lab. The lab machines (XP Pro) are configured so that students don't have Administrator rights when they log in. So when I try to build or debug a class library project in Visual Studio 2008, I get this error: "Cannot register assembly 'C:\Documents and Settings(username)\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\testproj\testproj\bin\Debug\testproj.dll' - access denied. Please make sure you're running the application as administrator. Access to the registry key 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\test.cmdTest' is denied."
In previous versions of Visual Studio, there was the option to add the non-admin account to the Debugger Users and VS Developers groups, and this would enable them to debug and build DLLs. Does Visual Studio 2008 include similar functionality, and would this even be the solution? I'm not seeing the groups added with the installation. If this functionality is not included, is there another way to solve this issue? Allowing students to have Admin rights or Power User rights to the machines is out of the question.
Any suggestions, ideas, or insight would be much appreciated.
Why not just consider using some kind of virtualizations ? Install Visual Studio on a virtual machine, hence, every mess a student gonna make, is gonna be virtual to some extent.
Keep a ready and fresh copy of the image file though.
Probably not the answer you want, but you could start VS by right clicking VS2008/devenv.exe > "run as" and select administrator and have the lab tech enter the admin credentials. This way, VS2008 will have the required rights, but your school isn't giving out a sensitive Login/Password.
Your school should change the group policy to allow you to build your projects. Enlist the help of a friendly professor for that.
Are you doing a web application? I believe that for non-web applications, you do not need admin rights.
If this is not a web application, maybe it's just a file system permissions issue?
From:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165100.aspx
"User permission requirements for Visual Studio vary depending on the operating system and the Visual Studio version. On Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2008 does not require administrator permissions to perform most tasks, but Visual Studio 2005 must run under administrator permissions to perform tasks correctly. On Windows Server 2003 and earlier, members of the Users group can perform most activities in the integrated development environment (IDE)."
It looks like you're trying to register the assembly in COM.
Access to the registry key
'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\test.cmdTest' is
denied."
Are you setting a [assembly:ComVisibleAttribute(true)] attribute in your assemblyinfo.cs or project properties? Try setting this to assembly:ComVisibleAttribute(false).
I need to make changes to files locked by another user who is not accessible any more. How can I unlock the files without having to log in using their account in Visual Studio 2008 TFS?
Yes, though you need to get familiar with the Team Foundation Server command line tf.exe.
See the post I did about this a while ago here http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/unlocking_files.html
Since I wrote that post (in October 2005) some alternatives have come about for people who don't want the hassle of learning a new command line.
You could install the TFS 2008 Power Tools on top of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you are able to do some of this from the UI in Visual Studio (Right click on the Developer in the Team Members node installed by the power tools and select "Show Pending Changes" and then "Undo..."
Alternatively, install the excellent (and free) TFS Sidekicks from Attrice.
Good luck.
If you have the relevent permissions to do so, yes. There's a good blog post on it here.
Yes you can, but you need the privileges.
See this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sayanghosh/archive/2007/11/08/howto-undo-another-users-check-out-as-a-tfs-admin.aspx