I was preparing a Dev Box for the SharePoint 2016 and thought of sharing the same with the community.

1. We can download and install the SharePoint 2016 from the below link.

https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=SharePoint%20Server%202016

2. The installer is an EXE/MSI which can be double clicked to start the installation.

3. The installation is straight forward and the required components will be downloaded by the EXE itself. The prerequisites for the SP2016 can be found in the earlier article.

4. Once, the installation completes, start the configuration wizard.

5. Click on Next

6. Give yes for the required services restart.

7. Since, I am creating a dev box, let us select the Single Server Farm and click Next.

8. Specify the Config Database details.

9. Give the Passphrase password.

10. In my case, as it is a single server farm, select it again and click next.

11. Specify the Central Admin Port and Click on Next.

12. Verify the Given information on the below screen.

13. Configuration Wizard starts and wait for all the tasks to be completed.

14. Once, the configuration completes, click Finish and launch the Central Admin URL.

Hope this helps. In the upcoming articles, let us see about various service application configurations.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.

Hello everyone, in this article we will see how to debug Windows Service after installing that Service. Always debugging a Windows Service Project in Visual Studio is challenging task. Usually most people your logger to keep track on what’s going on inside the service. But still it won’t be that much effective as debugging. In my previous article I explained How to debug Windows Service without installing. Here we can see how to debug after installing. Let’s get started.

· Install your Windows Service by using below command and make sure you built this solution in Debug mode (not release mode) and install that service. To know more about Windows Service Installation please refer my other article “How to manually install Uninstall Windows Service”

· Once the installation is successful you can find your service in ‘Service Control Manager’ and start your service.

· Open Visual Studio(run as Administrator), then go to Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> Symbols and check Microsoft Symbol Servers (If we are debugging system process and we want to have symbols for system calls then we must add this Microsoft Symbol Servers).

· Click on Ctrl+Alt+P or go to Tools -> Attach to Process… and attach the process (your service name in VS) that you want to debug. Make sure your service is started in Service Control Manager

· Now you are in debug mode. You can debug just like other common visual studio project

Happy Coding

Ahamed

With the Release of SharePoint Framework (SPFX), the Development Pattern itself has been changed. To accommodate the latest development trend, Microsoft has released the light weight version of the Visual Studio called “Visual Studio Code”. It has been released sometime back. But, now with the new client side scripting strategy, this has become the important IDE for the developers. I don’t say that we don’t require Visual Studio anymore. But, for the light weight webparts, Visual Studio Code is fine.

Now, let us see how to install Visual Studio Code.

1. Go to the Download Center – https://visualstudio.com/downloads.

2. Download Visual Studio Code

3. Install the MSI file.

In the upcoming articles, let us see how to use the Visual Studio Code.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.

Over these years, Visual Studio was one of the IDE which I have used almost every day. With that, so happy to say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY VISUAL STUDIO”. Yes. Visual Studio Turned 20 this Year. The first version of Visual Studio was released on the year 1997. “VISUAL STUDIO 97”. I have seen that product, but not used. But almost used all the versions of Visual Studios from the early 2000s.

With that birthday party, Microsoft Released the newer version of Visual Studio, i.e., VS 2017 got released by March 7, 2017. Hence, I downloaded and installed on my VM. Thought of sharing the experience to the community.

Now, let us see how to download & install the VS 2017 Community Version, which has all the features which we will be using for our learning purpose.

1. Go to the download Centre

https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

2. Download the Visual Studio as shown below.

3. Download the Community Version

4. The Online Installer is about 1 MB size only.

5. Run the Online Installer with a Proper Internet connection

6. Choose the components that needs to be installed along with the VS.

7. Click on Install. That will download the installation files from the CDN.

8. Sit back and Relax. The rest of the things VS will take care.

On the upcoming articles, we will see the features of the new Visual Studio 2017.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.