Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests

Microsoft just finished the VSeWSS 1.3 March 2009 CTP which released a couple of days ago. Read about the new features in the release notes and if there’s anything we missed, please tell us.

If you want to see how easy it is to get going with SharePoint Development using VSeWSS, check out Kirk Evans short screecast showing building a Web Part, packaging and deploying it and some of the new features that make workarounds a thing of the past.

If you want to learn SharePoint Development using VSeWSS, check out the hands on labs and training videos at MSSharePointDeveloper.com.

Also released today is a set of 10 new theme projects for VSeWSS. These are individual Visual Studio 2008 projects which when deployed to SharePoint offer fresh new designed themes you can use in your projects.

And Daniel Brown has wrapped these themes into WSP

SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.

If your application needs to use application specific event sources, you
should create them at installation time when administrator privileges are
available. A good approach is to use a .NET installer class, which can be
instantiated by the Windows Installer (if you are using .msi deployment) or
by the InstallUtil.exe system utility.

If you are unable to create event sources at installation time, and you are
in deployment, the administrator should manually create new event source
entry beneath the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\

Note:
You should not grant write permission to the ASP.NET process account (or
any impersonated account if your application uses impersonation) on the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\ registry
key. If you allow write access to this key and the account is compromised,
the attacker can modify any log-related setting, including access control
to the log, for any log on the system.

As you can see, creating event source at HKLM will certainly requires
administrative privilege.