Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for WSS 3.0- repacked - WSS Installation not required

I was quite frustrated that I could not install VSeWSSv12.exe - WSS 3.0 Visual Studio extensions 1.2 for VS 2008, because it requires having WSS 3.0 installed on the machine.

I don't have a powerful computer to host a vpc / vm with Windows 2003, Visual Studio and WSS all the other required things to develop applications.

I had to break - through the installation process somehow. So when executing the "VSeWSSv12.exe" downloaded from MS, it unpacks the MSI to a folder "C:\Program Files\MSECache\vsewssv12.en-us" and starts the MSI installer.

While still the setup is executing, I copied that folder to another location. I had the ORCA, MSI Editor already installed.

By Trial and error, I found that, by dropping WSSNotInstalled Action from CustomAction does the trick.

Once the extensions are installed, Sharepoint Project types within VS 2008 will start appearing.

Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll and any other sharepoint DLL's which would be reference within the projects would have to be manually copied from a WSS instance and should be used as reference.

I have zipped the same here. Download.

Note: I have not done anything other than the steps mentioned above, and Guaranteed that the package is as clean as its from MS. Kindly use it at your own discretion and nobody except you will hold responsibility for any damage caused by using this.


 

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