Tools

SharePoint Tools

1. AC’s VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Developers – Additions for CodeRush & Refactor! Pro Visual Studio productivity add-ins created by Andrew Connell. These include a dynamic list for SharePoint types, XML templates addressing the various XML files we use in SharePoint (eg: Feature schema, solution schema, field type definitions, *.webpart files, etc) as well as some refactorings.
2. CAML Query Builder
3. STSDEV – STSDEV is a proof-of-concept utility application which demonstrates how to generate Visual Studio project files and solution files to facilitate the development and deployment of templates and components for the SharePoint 2007 platform including Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).

.NET Tools

1. LINQPad

Web Tools

1. Firebug – Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
2. YSlow for Firebug – YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
3. IE Developer Toolbar – Close to Firebug but not there yet
4. CSS Vista: A tool to compare CSS between IE and FireFox
5. Fiddler – Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data.
6. SitePoint – New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web Developers and Designers
7. IETester – IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

Development Tools

1. Code Convertor – Converts C# to VB.NET and vice versa
2. NotePad++

Search a list/library in SP using a Forms webpart

Here is an outline of the steps:

1.    Open   your site in SharePoint Designer.

2.    In the Data Source Library section (on the right), expand SharePointLists and select the List to be searched(it’s not mandatory we can use share point List  or documents)

3.    Click on the down arrow next to the List and choose Show Data

 As shown Below from list click on Show Data From the  Inserted Selected Fields, select Multiple Item View

4) Now, Insert a Form Web Part (Insert -> SharePoint Controls -> Form Web Part)

5) From Design view, click on Parameters link and  create a new parameter (defaults to Param1)

Fig3

 

6)Now choose on WebPart Connection From the actions drop down, choose “Get Parameters From” as shown in the efigure below and click Next.

 

 

 

7)  Choose Connect to Web Part on this Page and on the next screen choose the Form  Web Part  Match the T1 (or the variable you specified) to the  Param1 variable.

 

 

From the list properties window shown in  Fig3,  choose Filters and  add the Fields to match the requirement. This filter will act as the keyword search and you can select the fields and type of search you like.

 

9) Save it and checkin the page and try ithe list search feature from the browser.!   There are so many other options explore them.