Some good tools to make SharePoint development faster

Some good tools to make SharePoint development faster

WSPBuilder
CAML Builder
SharePoint to Linq

Ted Pattison Group workflow tools

WSPBuilder

By using this tool we can generate SharePoint Solution Package for WSS3.0 and MOSS2007 within seconds

Suppose if we want to develop web part in SharePoint first we have to follow lot of steps like manually creating manifest.xml, feature.xml, creating DDF file and we have to package all these things and deploy as a SharePoint Solution
If you use WSPBuilder no need of doing all these things WSPBuilder will take care creating manifest.xml, feature.xml, creating DDF file and packaging

You can download WSBuilder.exe from CodeFlex site

Steps to create WebPart Using WSPBuilder

Open VS2005/VS2008 and select New Project -> WSPBuilderProject

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See within 6steps we have created and completed SharePoint webpart

Thanks KuetMann for giving this great tool......

CAML Builder(U2UCamlCreator)
CAML queries are good option to retrieve data from SharePoint lists this free tool will help you to create CAML queries very fast and efficient

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Thanks for U2U

SharePoint to Linq

If you are familiar with LINQ concept then you can use SharePoint to Linq library for querying sharepoint lists

you can query sharepoint lists like this

var result = from t in TravleLists

select t;

Ted Pattison Group workflow tools(WSS3.0)

By using this you can write workflows for WSS3.0 will not support browser enabled Infopath forms so we have to use aspx forms for develpoing workflows

Normally you have to write a lot of code for creating aspx forms in WSS3.0 but this tool will reduce amount of code to develop aspx forms it has built-in forms like association forms, initiation forms,Modification forms etc...