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Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition.

This project extends the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you will be able to find relevant information from your SharePoint environments without leaving Visual Studio. You will have greater productivity while developing SharePoint components and you will have greater deployment capabilities on your local SharePoint installation.

CKS:DEV has been formed as a merger of the SharePoint Dev Tools, SPVSX and Imtech Visual Studio Extensions projects. We are currently in the process of consolidating the code and will be providing an initial release of CKS:DEV shortly. Meanwhile, the individual releases can still be obtained for evaluation purposes using the links above.

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Active Team Members
Member	Role(s)	Find Out More
David Mann	CKS Organizer	http://www.mannsoftware.com/blog
Yvonne Harryman	CKS Organizer	http://www.yvonne.harryman.com/
Dave Pae	CKS Organizer	http://blogs.msdn.com/davidpae/default.aspx
Matt Smith	Technical Lead, Developer	http://blog.mattsmith.co.nz
Todd Bleeker	Technical Lead, Developer	http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Todd/
Waldek Mastykarz	Technical Lead, Developer	http://blog.mastykarz.nl
Wes Hackett	Technical Lead, Developer	http://weshackett.spaces.live.com/blog/
Wouter van Vugt	Technical Lead, Developer	http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/

CKS on Codeplex

Codeplex is the technical home for all CKS projects. Here you will find source code - both under development and official releases - as well as discussions, tasks and issue lists. The current CKS projects are:

Archived projects include:

The Future of CKS

The Community Kit for SharePoint is actively involved in SharePoint 2010. We have two projects currently underway for SharePoint 2010 and several more under discussion. If you have ideas or want to volunteer, please Contact Us.

Get Involved!

CKS is a community project. As such it is dependent upon volunteers to move forward. If you have an interest in helping out, we are always looking for volunteers. Don't worry if you are not a developer, we also need:

Testers
Project Managers
Documentation writers
User interface specialists
Graphic artists

in addition to SharePoint developers.

Commitment can range from just a few hours per month to as much time as you are able to give! Please Contact Us if you are interested.