Can Sharepoint Forms be accessed as files? - sharepoint-2010

I'm working with Lists in Sharepoint 2010. I have a few Forms I've worked on a little ("DispForm.aspx" etc) and was wondering whether the forms are available as files on the server?
If I was working with an aspx file in Visual Studio I could open it up in Notepad... but I can't find my aspx files on the Sharepoint server. Are they not accessible in that way?

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SharePoint link should open in File Explorer but opens in Web Browser

As the name of the question states, I'm working with my company on a project in UiPath that is responsible for scraping a slurry of excel files from a SharePoint server. Unfortunately a decent portion of it is proprietary so I don't know how much of the actual code I can justifiably put here.
I have inside of UiPath (which is essentially a shell for vb.net and C# specifically tailored for automation) functionality to input a website url into the file explorer and have it navigate to the OneDrive folder for that SharePoint site.
This was working as expected until yesterday in the morning when it decided to brick itself and instead pull up the SharePoint site on the web browser.
Is there any way to ensure or otherwise understand why it won't open the folder path? I had it working before and I don't know why it doesn't work anymore.
Regards,
Jadda

Unable to create web site project using VS 2010

Here is My current versionTrying to create my first website using Visual Studio 2010. I configured IIS, installed ASP.NET MVC4 (not sure if I need it though). But still unable to see anything when clicking Visual Basic or VisualC#. What am I missing?

Creating custom controls for TFS 2012 through a SharePoint 2010 portal

I'm trying to get a SharePoint 2010 web portal working for a TFS 2012 team project. Most of the functionality is working, but I'm having a difficult time getting the custom work item controls we've built working in the SharePoint Project Portal site. (They're working fine within Visual Studio, we haven't tried getting them working in the default TFS Web Access portal.)
My questions are:
Since the TFS Web Access method for creating custom properties have been updated, is that method appropriate for the SharePoint site? (I doubt it, since jQuery is necessary and isn't included by default in SP 2010, but I thought I'd ask.)
Whenever I try to test this, all I get is "Error: Unable to create 'FieldName'" with nothing in the ULS logs. Is there any way I can debug this?
Are there any examples available online that I may have missed in my searches?
After a lot of digging and frustration, I have finally gotten a simple control working. Indeed, SharePoint 2010 expects the custom controls to be formatted similarly to Web Access 2010, not Web Access 2012. Here is an example that helped:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/CSTFSWebAccessWorkItemMulti-ace1b01e
Also, if you install the 2008 Team System Web Access (yes, 2008), you'll get a Word document with some helpful documentation.
Here are some caveats:
The Word documentation states that the control needs to inherit from both IWorkItemControl and IWorkItemWebControl. Since IWorkItemWebControl contains all of the fields that IWorkItemControl does, and IWorkItemControl is declared in a DLL that references .NET 4.5 (not good for SharePoint 2010), I referenced only IWorkItemWebControl and it seems to work.
The documentation states that your control needs to inherit from System.Web.UI.Control to work, but the UserControl doesn't work. I had to inherit from one of the WebControls to get it to work.
The custom controls need references to TFS 2012 versions of several DLLs (which are listed in the sample download), but the only place I found them were in the GAC on the SharePoint server. So I copied them from the GAC onto my local machine for development.
Deploying is easy - all you need to do is place the .wicc file and the DLL into "Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\Tswa\CustomControls".
If I find anything else, I'll post it here.

Does a custom visual webpart have to operate within a sandbox solution in Sharepoint office 365

Does a custom (i.e. one I've developed for SharePoint 2010) visual webpart have to operate within a sandbox solution in SharePoint office 365, or can it be a farm solution?
Thanks, Confused
Web parts have to be sandboxed for SharePoint 365. Visual web parts can't be sandboxed since the ascx control that comes with the web part is copied to the file system. if you need to create a visual web part in SharePoint 365 you can use the SharePoint Power Tools extension.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9
There you have the option to create a visual web part that can be deployed as a sandboxed solution.
Independent from the type of SP-I (SharePoint Item) you're creating, Office 365 only supports sandboxed solutions.
Microsoft is going to migrate Office 365 to SharePoint 2013 within the next weeks/months. When migration is done, you can also create Apps using the new SharePoint 2013 App model.
But for now, it's only possible to deploy Sandboxed solutions, because it's not allowed to do any changes to the filesystem or elements, that are available across the boundaries of your SiteCollection.
When it comes to WebPart development, you've to remember that it's not possible to impersonate using SPSecurity. (There are more limitations for Sandboxed Solutions, you should revisit the MSDN in order to get a common understanding of what you can do within the Sandbox)

Development in Visual Studio 2010 for remote Sharepoint 2010 server

I understand that you can't develop in Visual Studio 2010 for a remote Sharepoint 2010 server because you need a local copy running on your box. (I know there is a hack)
In my situation I have Sharepoint Foundation installed locally for development purposes but I'm not sure how to get the custom lists, etc from the remote server to my local box so I can develop against the same objects.
I've tried exporting the site on the remote box and then creating a new Visual Studio 2010 project from it. This resulted in exceptions when deploying to my local box - more problems which I'm sure given time I could work out...but more problems. (It was types not being installed properly on my local box that the custom object was using)
So I've been thinking there must be an easier way to pull down data structures.
I've spent a while looking for this and while there is quite a lot of information out there I'm finding it hard to find basic information like this.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
What objects do you need from the remote server?
If it is lists, you can export the lists from the remote server as templates then use the resulting stp files to create the lists locally. If it is dlls you can get them form GAC and add the required entries in SharePoint site web.config.
You can also try to export the entire site and create a site locally based on the site template.