Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Visual Studio VS SharePoint Designer

A few basic differences between these two amazing development tools
Visual Studio             ==> VS
SharePoint Designer  ==> SPD

  1. Code Behind
          Yes (VS)
          No (SPD)

  2. Development Model
          Graphical Designer (VS)
          Wizard Based (SPD)

  3. Supported WF Hosts
          WSS/MOSS/Others (VS)
          WSS/MOSS (SPD)

  4. Type of WF Supported
          Sequential & State Machine (VS)
          Sequential (SPD)

  5. Activities
          Built-in, Use & Dev Custom (VS)
          Built-In & Use Custom (SPD)

  6. Form Technology
          Design forms in any technology Including
          ASP.NET/InfoPath (VS)
          Auto generated, customizable ASP.NET Forms (SPD)

  7. Modification
          Can modify WF (VS)
          Can’t modify WF using modification forms (SPD)

  8. Association
          Can be associated with multiple content types,
          list and document libraries (VS)
          Associated automatically with a single list at design time,
          No other association possible (SPD)

  9. Debugging
          Yes
          No (SPD)

  10. Deployment
          Must build package & Deploy WF using SharePoint Feature
          technology (VS)
          Automatically Deployed to associated list,
          live Changes (SPD)

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