Visual Studio 2005 Templates for Sharepoint Development

This post intends to clear the "Templates" needs to be used for VS 2005 Sharepoint Development

For MOSS 2007

MOSS SDK includes the necessary Templates required for "Workflows" "BDC Defination Editor"

Download Link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en


Note : Since MOSS 2007 is built on top of WSS 3.o, all the templates and solution which works for WSS 3.0 , will work for MOSS as well.

For WSS 3.0

1. SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1

Brief Description

(Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1)
Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator. Please also download the User Guide and Samples listed in Related Resources.


Download Link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en


2. For Workflows

First u need to install Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation which can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2151993-991d-4f58-a707-5883ff4c1dc2&displaylang=en#Overview

then to create a workflow targeted towords WSS, you can get templates in wss sdk. Download and install WSS Sdk.

WSS SDK Download Link

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en

Custom Development of Sharepoint on VS 2008

VS 2008 by default comes with all the necessary templates required for development.