Hello, a colleague of mine asked me to find resources on the web how to create a Visual Studio 2010 extension for the SharePoint node in the server explorer. I won’t detail a solution myself, I’ll only post the articles as I’ve found them.

Walkthrough: Calling into the SharePoint Client Object Model in a Server Explorer Extension

This one illustrates how to do it with the SharePoint client object model. This is the best I’ve found so far, the result is quite nice, and shows from the beginning to the end with almost every click along the way.

Walkthrough: Extending Server Explorer to Display Web Parts

Another walkthrough which illustrates the same thing, bu with SharePoint command. I’d say, to my liking, this one is more complicated, and it generated an exception at the end. I may have mistyped something along the way, but I doubt it. Nevertheless, if you want to proceed with SharePoint commands, it would be a fine starting point.

How to: Extend a SharePoint Node in Server Explorer

If you’ve done the walkthrough, and only need a simple checklist, then this one is the way to go. It only enumerates the steps to follow in order to create an extensions without taking you by the hand.