To extend SharePoint nodes in Visual Studio 2010 Server Explorer

The biggest selling point of Visual Studio 2010 is scalability. So you can use it. NET community's power to build a lot of useful tools based on vs. In this article we'll show you how to extend the VS2010 Server Explorer and add a custom action to the SharePoint node in it.

SharePoint Server Explorer is a new feature of Visual Studio 2010, which is provided by Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint.

If you only need to browse through the contents of the SharePoint site from Visual Studio (site columns, content types, features, etc.), the default features are already very useful for you. However, by default, SharePoint Server Explorer can do nothing other than show what is available in your Web site.