[SharePoint 2010 – Developpement] Getting started with Visual Studio Tools for Sharepoint 2010

In order to help you to build your sharepoint, you’ll need some Visual Studio Tools

Generate page layout from a content type

When you create a Page layout heriting from a content type and you want to display the metadata on the page, you could use this great extension for Visual studio in order to generate the page layout.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/990bd0c8-a55b-4643-a35d-88136594c3d9
Here a post from Waldek MastyKarz to explain how it works

Cks Dev Server

Add of lot of feature really useful, the one I use :

• Permit you to generate page code for site definition (onet.xml)
• Reboot IIS
• Create Site definition in my current project, instead of creating a Site definition Project
• etc

http://cksdev.codeplex.com/