At the SharePoint Conference 2009, in the mist of all the vendors pushing their various products, I had the opportunity to meet Ondrej and Hynek from the company BoldBrick. They make an awesome Developer program for SharePoint called "Mossquito". 
Besides it's cool name, it is a very powerful IDE for developers of SharePoint. With this tool, you can develop, deploy and manage SharePoint web sites. If you want to read more about Mossquito, go to the BoldBrick.com Web Site, otherwise I'll continue on with my first look at the program.
So, after you install what you get in this IDE is a treasure trove of features including:
Mossquito 2009 Full Feature List
Below are a few screenshots pulled from the Mossquito site about the product. What you'll notice (as I did) is that it's very user friendly and resembles an Office 2007 product with the ribbon-like bar at the top. The UI is very rich in features and I found that it was pretty easy to get around.
[Start Page]
[Opened Project]
[Content Type Hierarchy]
[Site Column]
And here are some screenshots from my use of Mossquito:
[Full Diagram of Lists, Content Types and Views]
[Zoom-In of Diagram Above]
[Custom List "Leave Requests" Example]
So, as you can see that this Mossquito product definitely brings a lot to the table as an IDE for SharePoint development. I'm currently running it "through the ringer" to flush out pros and cons of the program, but so far, I've run only into "pros" for this program. I believe that the street price for Mossquito is going to be 899 Euros ($1,299 USD) which is a steal if you compare to other programs like MetaVis for SharePoint.
If you want to read more about Mossquito, go to the BoldBrick.com Web Site.
If you are looking for the Installation Setup walkthrough, check out the Mossquito 2009: Installation Setup post.
Cheers.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Mossquito: First Look (SharePoint Developer's IDE)
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