Installing the SharePoint Workspace SDK

The SDK installer is a self-extracting executable. After extracting the files in the archive, you copy the sample and template files to the Visual Studio project and templates folder.

Extracting the SDK Archive

By default, the SharePoint Workspace 2010 SDK installer is downloaded to the file SPW2010SDK.exe. Executing the file opens a dialog to specify the location where the files are to be extracted. You can extract the SDK to any convenient location. After extracting the files, the following folders and files are provided:

  • SharePoint Workspace 2010 SDK\

    • Docs\

      • SPW14SDK.chm

      • SPW14SDKCon.chm

    • Samples\

      • C#\

        • AttachmentsAndConflicts.zip

        • PhotosWPF.zip

        • QuerySample.zip

    • Templates\

      • C#\

        • SPWAddInTemplate.zip

You should extract the samples compressed (.zip) files into the "Visual Studio 2008\Projects" folder in your Documents library. You can right-click each .zip file in the Samples folder and select "Extract all ..." and then specify the Visual Studio 2008 Projects folder as the destination. Each sample is extracted to the destination with a top-level folder that contains the Visual Studio solution file and a subfolder with the source files.

You should copy the SPWAddInTemplate.zip template file without uncompressing it to the "Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#" folder in your Documents library.