Some of my students, clients and community peers have asked about my favorite tools for working with SharePoint. So with that in mind, I quickly noted down some of my favorite tools that every developer should have in their toolbox. I’ve written posts about this before but as times and technology moves forward, new tools and techniques are evolving. I may post about the tools I recommend for IT-Pros at some point, but right now let’s stay on track with the dev-focus.
If you think I’ve missed out on some great tools, let me know by commenting on the article and I’ll make sure to include it in the post
Recommended development tools
Here’s a brief list of tools that I would recommend for any SharePoint solution developer. At the very least, I would assume that you already have Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013.
CAML Designer 2013
Historically I’ve been using some kind of CAML query generator since the U2U CAML Query Builder tool was released. There’s really no other efficient way to build your CAML queries than have the stubs auto-generated with a tool. For SharePoint 2013 I am now solely using the CAML Designer tool.
The application is a lot more enhanced than any predecessors and I highly recommend that you download it right away unless you’ve already done so. There’s some tweaks that has to be made in the tool before it’s feature complete, but hey it’s a community tool and the best one I’ve used thus far in the area. The best part is the auto-generated code samples that goes with your query. Yum!
Quick Highlights:
- Autogenerate the actual CAML Query
- Autogenerate Server OM code
- Autogenerate CSOM .NET code
- Autogenerate CSOM REST code
- Autogenerate Web Service code
- Autogenerate PowerShell code
If you investigate the tool you’ll see that it does not only generate the CAML query itself, but also code-snippets for various technologies for you to copy and paste into your code as a stub to work with. Simple, elegant and so far it only crashes every now and then ;-)
Update December 2022: Download removed.
SharePoint Manager 2013
Since a friend of mine, Carsten Keutmann, started working on the SPM (SharePoint Manager) tool I have been impressed with it. It has been in the community for a long time and now the 2013 version is pretty slick. Simple and intuitive interface which allows you to quickly and easily navigate down the farm and investigate settings, properties, schema XML and so on. Most of the things in your SharePoint environment can be investigated from this tool.
ULS Viewer
I still keep getting the question about what tool I use to parse my ULS Logs. Honestly, there’s no alternative to the ULS Viewer. I’ve written about logging previously, including the ULSViewer tool. In SharePoint 2013 I use this tool on a daily basis, but I also use the built-in ULS viewer in the Developer Dashboard.
ULS Viewer Windows Application Screenshot:
ULS Viewer in the Developer Dashboard:
For information about how to enable the developer dashboard and launch it, check out my mate Wictor’s blog
CKS Dev
A plugin for Visual Studio that is a killer-feature you can’t live without, is CKS:Dev. A team of awesome folks in the community have put together this amazing extension to Visual Studio and it now have support for 2013 as well. It allows you to manage your development routines more efficiently while you are on a coding adventure, it adds a bunch of new project items for your SharePoint projects and contributes to an overall satisfactory SharePoint developer story. You need this extension.
Color Palette Tool for Branding
With SharePoint 2013 comes new possibilities for branding. A lot of people are accustomed to wobbling up their own custom CSS files and have a designer do most of the branding parts. If you’re just looking to create new composed looks for SharePoint 2013 without too much effort, you should use the SharePoint Color Palette Tool, provided by Microsoft!
Debugger Canvas
A tool that can aid you in the debugging process. I’m not using it every day, but when I switch it on it really nails it! What can I say, if you hate the tedious normal debug execution and you want a better and more hierarchical way of displaying your trace in real time, enjoy debugger canvas awesomeness. All the code in your current calls displayed in one view type of thing. You’ve got to check it out.
Note: The debugger canvas is for VS 2010 Ultimate. I’m not sure if they’ve gotten around to port it up to VS 2012 or VS 2013 yet; But if you’re lingering with 2010 Ultimate, you should get this now. Period.
SharePoint 2013 Search Tool
As we all know, search is one of the biggest things in SharePoint 2013. This tool allows us to learn and understand how the queries can be formatted and allows us to easily configure a Search REST Query. Pretty slick if you ask me. Use the tool to create the queries for you, then you can analyze them and better understand how to tweak and modify the output. Great job with the tool!
Fiddler. Always use Fiddler!
For most experienced web developers, Fiddler has been a constant tool in the basket. It is an addition to many of the existing tools you can use, but it’s extremely slick for analyzing SharePoint requests on the client side. I’ve saved countless hours by using this awesome tool to analyze the requests and responses from SharePoint. Download it, learn it, use it.
SPCAF – SharePoint Code Analysis Framework
My friend Matthias Einig created a tool called SPCAF which analyzes your solutions and code. Truly a beneficial tool in your toolbox that will aid you in the direction of awesomeness. If you’ve developed crappy solutions, you’ll know it before you ship it off to production environments. It integrates with Visual Studio, there’s a stand-alone client application and you can even have it hooked up to your build process – something I’m doing with my Iterative Development Processes.
.NET Reflector from Red Gate
It’s no secret that we want to peek into other peoples’ code. With the .NET reflector from Red Gate you can do just that. It’s an awesome reverse-engineering tool which allows you to peek into the code of a compiled assembly! I use it to debug Microsoft.SharePoint*.dll assemblies and to investigate third-party assemblies.
F12 Debugging experience in your browser
As Anders mentions in the comments, I forgot to mention the most obvious one. The F12-experience in your web browser. It enables you to debug and investigate HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other resources on your web pages on the client. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and FireFox all have some type of developer tools available. For me personally, I use Chrome as my main debugging tool and IE for verification. I seldom use Firefox anymore to be honest.
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio
As Matthias points out in the comments, there’s another great extension for Visual Studio called PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio. It allows you to get syntax-highlighting on your PowerShell files directly in Visual Studio.
Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AdamRDriscoll.PowerShellToolsforVisualStudio2015
SPFastDeploy
Are you developing Apps for SharePoint 2013? Steve Curran commented about using the SPFastDeploy tool that he has created. It’s a great extension for quickly pushing changes to your dev site without having to re-deploy the entire app. Pretty neat!
Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SteveCurranMVP.SPFastDeploy
Advanced REST Client plugin for Google Chrome
As pointed out by Peter in the comments, there’s an awesome plugin for Chrome called Advanced REST Client which allows you to investigate the REST calls and configure your queries pretty simply through the UI. You get to see the results and the request times directly in the browser and you can play with the parameters etc easily until you get it just right. Great tip!
Postman – REST Client plugin for Google Chrome
The previous REST Client I mentioned above is awesome, and here’s another really great tool that AC tipped us about. The Postman REST Client plugin for Google Chrome. Similar to the previous plugin for Chrome, but slightly different for the one who prefers that tool instead. An idea is to try them out both and figure out which one you like best yourself.
SharePoint 2013 Client Browser
As pointed out in the comments by André, the SharePoint 2013 Client Browser is a tool similar to SharePoint Managed which I’ve mentioned above in this article. With this tool you can connect remotely to a SharePoint environment and investigate the data through the Client API’s. In my screenshot I’m connected from my laptop to my Office 365 SharePoint Online dev-account for Pointbird.com development. Pretty sweet!
Note: There’s a similar tool available called SharePoint Explorer 365, which also allows for connecting to Office 365 which can be found here (https://sharepointrepairjoint.blogspot.com/2012/05/sharepoint-explorer-365.html). I prefer the previously mentioned one though, the SharePoint 2013 Client Browser, but that’s a matter of preference.
smtp4dev
I can’t believe I originally forgot to put this in. Thanks to the tip in the comments from Caroline I got around to add it to the list here. Smtp4dev is an awesome tool for testing out if SharePoint are sending its e-mails properly, but instead of actually sending the e-mails to the recipients (which may not be wanted if you’re testing on real data for example..) it will catch all e-mails sent through the smtp server and allow you to view them directly in the tool’s UI. It’s pretty neat, and I do use it a lot when working with things related to e-mails and specifically automated processes where e-mails may be sent at various points in time but you still need to verify the logic and correctness.
Summary
So there you go. For everyone who asked what common tools I keep in my toolbox; There’s the most common ones.
If I missed to mention a tool, feel free to enlighten me and perhaps I can add it to the post.
Enjoy.
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I would add Power GUI in your list.. I can't live without this... http://www.powergui.org/ind...
Of course, I've got this in my basket too - thanks for reminding me, adding it to the list. Not one of my favorites since it sometimes breaks the SharePoint PowerShell execution, but overall pretty neat.
PowerGUI is sometimes little stubborn in my opinion. On PowerShell3 hosts I prefer using PowerShell ISE which is built in.
Also worth mentioning is PowerShell for Visual Studio by Adam Driscoll see http://visualstudiogallery....
The advantage is that you don't have to leave VS :)
Agree on PowerGUI and thanks for the tip on the PowerShell for Visual Studio. I'll add it to the list as well.
I would also add Red Gate .NET Reflector.. http://www.red-gate.com/pro... ... One of the most often used utility in my DEV box to look at how Microsoft has been writing their code... :)
Great tip Nik. This is actually one of my most used investigative tools and the plugin for Visual Studio is just awesome.
As a free alternative have a look at ILSpy http://ilspy.net/ which does the job in a similar way :)
Good point. It's a fairly good tool as well. Personally I enjoy the .NET Reflector due to the VS plugins though. Well worth the small cost for the license.
Another one I love... C# to VB convertor or vice-a-versa... Great utility especially if you stumble upon VB code snippet to use in your C# program... http://www.developerfusion....
Thanks for the tip. I've never used it and I guess it'll be used less and less since VB isn't exactly growing :-)
One more.. URL decoder and encoder.. Great handy tool... http://meyerweb.com/eric/to...
Thanks for the tip; I've built my own extension for Visual Studio to do this, perhaps I should post that one as well :-)
And, last but not least.. How about SPDisposeCheck.. http://archive.msdn.microso... ... I believe there is Visual Studio extension for this but I couldn't find the link....
Yes the dispose checker is great, however the SPCAF has that stuff built-in so that's why I didn't mention it. If you're not using SPCAF, this tool is a great addition to the basket to let people know about their potential memoryleaks before their clients do ;-)
SPCAF has a little free brother called SPCop which also includes the memory disposal checks.
SPDisposeCheck is unfortunately useless for SP2013 projects as it does not support assemblies > .NET 3.5.
That's why we created the disposal rules for SPCop/SPCAF. See also for more background http://www.matthiaseinig.de...
@Zimmergren:disqus Thanks for including it :)
No worries Matthias, it's a convenient tool :-)
F12 ;)
Actually not a bad idea to mention the F12 experience :-)
Thanks Anders.
Hey Tobias
Thanks for the mention, we are currently working on an updated release for the CamlDesigner.. Should have less crashes and a little more functionality included (like the option to also use hidden fields etc)
Maybe see you in SPC...
Have a nice weekend
Kind regards
Andy
Hi Andy,
No worries, it's a good tool. Looking forward to the new release - please comment here when you release it and I'll make sure to publish an updated article about it :-)
No SPC for me this year unfortunately, busy times.
Cheers,
Tob.
I use SPFastDeploy many times a day when doing app model development. Has saved me countless hours.
Steve, great tip. You've created a nice tool and I've just included it in the list as well - it does ease the development of apps tremendously! :-)
Cheers,
Tob.
Thanks for the mention.
This is great Steve...I actually found yesterday that saving a file when in debug mode wasn't updating the file and I had to stop and start debugging. If I restart entire VM it seems to start working again though.
I'm using a chrome addon (after a tip from a colleague) for doing REST calls and inspecting the results, it's a bit easier to work with than f ex fiddler. https://chrome.google.com/w...
Hi Peter, I just added the tool to the list. Tested it out and it's awesome - thanks for a great tip!
Cheers,
Tob.
That is really useful...just getting my feet wet in REST after being on Server Side for so long ;-)
You and me both. But I've been doing all things on the client-side for most of last year though and I've got to give it to them, Microsoft did an awesome job in implementing the REST API's even if there's still some things you would want to have improved. I'm already using tool that Peter tipped about extensively. Nice!
I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on what needs to be improved...I have a post in draft right now in the series I'm writing...but keep getting sucked into AngularJS and not writing about the higher level apps stuff LOL
I've got a list somewhere lying around with some REST wishlist items :-)
How's AngularJS coming along? I've been using that and Knockout.js to get some structure in the JS and I love'em both. Easy databinding rocks.
I've been blogging on AngularJS recently. I'm enjoying the ability to have some structure rather than a 4000 line JS file for sure ;-) the binding is great and all the add-on libraries make things so easy. But when things don't work...its very hard to troubleshoot and can be a number of things: HTML/CSS, Jquery, Angular or just my badly written code ;-)
I've been busting both Knockout and Angular lately; They're good for the same things in certain scenarios but most likely Angular will prevail if it comes down to a showdown of the two. The clients I'm working with are using both in various teams so right now we'll just have to adjust the techniques after what serves the teams best - but in the long rung we'll probably land Angular on all divisions. I've got to say, from being a farm solution-guy to becoming a client-side junkie has made me love SharePoint development even more than I used to. Pow!
10 months on from the comments above, I wondered which framework has the most traction out in the wild). I am designing a on prem provided hosted app part that makes host web calls to one of the document libraries. I want populate widgets say with terms / some user text and json responses from REST calls .. I have seen AC's SPA course on Plurasight and it looks interesting.
Prefer using AngularJS over something like Knockout. Angular is A LOT MORE than just databinding... it's a presentation framework. Knockout is just a databinding framework.
AngularJS is winning so you might want to jump on board the bandwagon before there's no more room :)
Yeah it does A LOT! and the community is growing so fast for AngularJS its NUTS! the Pluralsight courses are a great treasure trove of getting started.
Agreed. But when you're out working with large corporations that have dozens of teams who are all using a specific technology I can't just waltz in there and say "Toss that away, use these new shiny bits of awesomeness" <- But I would like to ;-)
It's about what each framework can do, but also about what the situation presents in your team, as always. Which is a good reason to learn both.
Man that's easy for me... it's just two things: (1) the SharePoint REST API needs to get to the current OData v3 spec, not just partial implementation. For instance, we really need batching support. It's already implemented in WCF Data Services 5.0 (MSFT's product name for their implementation of the OData v3 spec & what SharePoint 2013's REST API is based on)... it's just not implemented int he SharePoint implementation and that's poor... (2) 100% feature coverage on the API that is covered in the CSOM API (taxonomy & workflow services are the two big holes that kick me in the pants).
Yeah I need to play with external REST APIs more to understand what they are capable of to make a fair comparison. But agree on 100% coverage between CSOM and REST...and there are a lot of things in SSOM I want in REST too ;-)
I hear that Workflow can kick pretty hard in the pants too ;-)
Workflow CSOM covered fully in my latest Pluralsight course :) http://pluralsight.com/trai...
Agree on both points; Mostly the second one which has been a pain for me as of late - when we have the same feature coverage in all versions of the client side options, we're golden and it'll make choices easier.
Mate this is a great list! Been too long since we've caught up, a few on here I haven't used in a while...thanks for the reminder!
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for the comments, appreciate it! Agree that it's been too long. We've got to find room for beer soon :-)
Cheers,
Tob.
I can include the following tool SharePoint Client Browser for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 https://spcb.codeplex.com it is very usefull if you are using SP2013/Office 365 and you need to access WEB Data not only Lists/document Library
Thanks André,
I've just added that tool to the list as well. I've been using it a few times for SharePoint Online and it works great, simply slipped my mind right now. Thanks for the tip.
Cheers,
Tob.
Have you seen the POSTMan REST addin for Chrome? Much preferred my this SharePointer: http://www.andrewconnell.co...
Thank you for the tip AC!
I've updated my post to include the Postman plugin as well.
Cheers,
Tob.
Cheers for this Tobias its an awesome article although I'm quite shocked that CAML Designer is using JQuery and no SP Request Executor, but also a tip for people as a lot still use firefox - ctrl+shift+k is the built in dev tool and it offers a great 3d view of the page which allows you to visually see the markup as layers amongst other good profilers and tools. Chrome is still the best profiling tools, IE10+ is the best for network traffic and firefox is the best for markup. Thats in my book anyway!
Great article and a few tools I have never used (I love the debug canvas it shows it how I imagine it in my head while using traditional methods)
Regards,
Hugh Wood
Thank you for the comments Hugh, I appreciate it :-)
As with all tools, you'll most likely want to modify the generated code slightly before you actually implement it in your production code ;-) Agree with you on browser debugging capabilities - I use multiple browsers for debugging different things, but most often I land in Chrome these days, as I reckon the plugins are superior.
Cheers,
Tob.
I have to admit I haven't use a CAML designer for quite some time as its now wrapped up in a strongly typed class for internal work. I do love the Chrome dev tools and plugins, the nightingale has shown some really cool stuff coming through of late. My favourite from Chrome is the ability to use a map for debugging minified JS.
Very nice list Tobias!
Hi Koen,
Thank you for the kind comment, appreciate it.
Cheers,
Tob.
Nice article Tobias! Thanks for the
SharePoint Color Palette Tool, I could have used there is little time.
Thank you Arwena, appreciate it.
Cheers,
Tob.
there is a nice mod to Sharepoint Manager that can work with O365
http://sharepointrepairjoin...
Thank you for the comment Marat, appreciate the tip.
I'll add it to the list!
Tob.
smtp4dev - nice tool for a development environment to test outgoing e-mails.
And to give some color back in our lives:
http://visualstudiogallery....
Caroline, thank you for the tips!
I've used smtp4dev a LOT and can't believe I forgot to put it in the list, thanks for reminding me :-)
Cheers,
Tob.
Great tools!
Thanks Tobias
Thank you Arash. Appreciate the comment.
Hi Tobias, that's a great list! I didn't know SMTP4DEV, seems pretty useful for testing workflow notification for example. I'll try Debugger Canvas too, if they have a VS2013 version.
Hi Andy,
Glad you like the list of tools. I've been using SMTP4DEV for a few years and it's brilliant. Testing workflows, SPAlerts, custom e-mail applications or anything else that relates to sending e-mails that you quickly want to intercept without having to send them to an actual mailbox.
Last time I checked they hadn't upgraded Debugger Canvas unfortunately, I hope they will soon - it is an awesome debugging tool :-)
Cheers,
Tob.
Hi Tobias,
thank you very much for providing this helpful links & tools
Thank you, dear Guest.
Rock and roll :-)
Tobias.
Hi Tobias,
This is an awsome collection of tools and i love to use it with SP2013
Hi husni,
Thank you - I'm glad you liked the tips :-)
Cheers,
Tobias.
I love these tools, I already used some of them, but didnt know them all, with your permission I posted the missing ones on my blog too. http://levalencia-public.sh...
Also may be using FakeSMTP for email testing
http://fakesmtp.ru/
Good alternative
Many excellent comments here! Thanks for bringing the community around this topic Tobias.
I use http://www.hmailserver/ for email because it offers more features like IMAP inboxes and even Inbound Email to send to SharePoint. I have a diagram and configuration steps at http://www.spjeff.com/2011/...
Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your comment!
Great tip with the hmailserver, and thanks for the link!
Cheers,
Tobias.
Your blog is very informative. However, it is pretty hard task but your post and experience serve and teach me how to handle and make it more simple and manageable.
Hi,
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it.
Cheers,
Tob.
Thanks for the great listing, I'm using about half of these on a daily basis and will definitely be checking out some of them that I didn't know about.
I was a little surprised to see that there wasn't any mention of PowerGUI for Powershell development. It's been invaluable in my toolbox for any sort of SP script development.
http://en.community.dell.co...
Hi Cam,
Thank you for the comment. Glad you found some useful new tools to check out :-)
With PowerGUI I've had major problems (as have most of my clients and colleagues) with specific SharePoint-tasks in PowerShell that fails under PowerGUI but works in the console or the Windows ISE.
If I were mentioning PowerShell tools, I'd be listing this one for sure - it's a great tip, Cam!
Cheers,
Tobias.
Thanks for listing all the tools
Can you provide the links to the below tools for better understanding as how to work on it.
1. SharePoint Manager 2013
2. SharePoint 2013 Search Tool
3. SharePoint 2013 Client Browser
Here is my email id: prakashin77@gmail.com
Hi Prakash,
Thank you for your comment.
You should be able to read the documentation of each tool on their website. They usually post either a documentation themselves, or a link to someone else's guides.
Regards,
Tobias.
yes even after going through the documentation for some of the tools i was not able to gain something..
To say something forward i was a beginner for Sharepoint.
So it may be the reason that i am not able to understand something from the documentation...
So it would be helpful if you suggest me prior to understand some of these tools......
Thanks..........
Hi again Prakash,
I would suggest that you start in the other end then. Not "how can I use this tool" but instead "what is the problem I'm trying to solve?" and take it from there.
Once you know what you want to accomplish, and you know what tools are available to aid in that process, then it is probably easier to give specific samples for how to use a certain tool.
Saying "please document all tools for me" isn't going to work I'm afraid :-)
Cheers and good luck mate.
Tobias.
Thanks for the great explanation
so right now we'll just have to adjust my setting as per your images
Good alternative
I appreciate it.
Thanks
Hire SharePoint
Hi Adelina,
Thank you for your comment.
You should of course configure the tools as per your own environments and requirements. I'm glad you liked the list of tools :-)
Cheers,
Tobias.
How to update all the instances of the Hyperlinks in a subsite having no of pages with more num of same hyperlink instances.
To be very clear
lets say i have a site A subsite B
In subsite B i have 4 pages
In each page i have a Hyperlink called Z repeated 10 times in page
Now i want to Update the hyperlink Z in each page of site and Sub site
How do i do that ?
Prakash,
Please only post comments related to this article here, and use the contact for or MSDN/Stackoverflow for other questions.
www.mssharepointforums.com is a good place to start mate :-)
Cheers,
Tobias.
What are your thoughts on WSPBuilder? I haven't lived without it since the past 3 years of development. "Deploy to GAC" and "Attach to process" are my favourite.
Hi Grimmjow,
I haven't used WSPBuilder since I worked with SharePoint 2007 actually. There's really no need for it when you have the fully integrated CKS Dev extensions for Visual Studio 2010/2013 for developing SharePoint solutions.
I wrote about WSPBuilder back in 2009: http://zimmergren.net/techn...
I would recommend checkig out CKS Dev though. Starting point: http://cksdev.codeplex.com/
Cheers,
Tobias.
p.s. the same commands exist in CKS Dev, and more.
I suspected there were better tools out there. I will definitely check out your recommendation. Thank you Tobias.
Glad I could help :-)
Great tools Tobias,
I like the "Powershell Tools for Visual Studio 2013" and "SharePoint 2013 Client Browser", they both are awesome tools.
I am using SPCAF and ShareGate tools, Those made my life much easier.
Thanks again for sharing tool kit for SharePoint 2013 development.
Hi Hussain,
Glad you liked it!
Both SPCAF (also in this list) and ShareGate has some great benefits, they're good tools!
Enjoy your SharePoint endeavors.
Tobias.
Thanks for great information.
Is there any tool to bind event receiver in a list in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online. Please ...
Hi Sukanta,
Perhaps the "SharePoint Event Receiver Manager" (https://speventreceiverman....) for SharePoint 2007/2010 will work with 2013 (on-premises) as well. I haven't used it since I do most of my magic using PowerShell, or by definitions so you'll have to dig into the tool yourself.
For Office 365 (SharePoint Online) you would most likely want to check out Remote Event Receivers. Check out an introductory MSDN article on the subject here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... :-)
Cheers,
Tobias.
Thanks for information about event receiver.
Hi Tobias,
I have SharePoint 2013 server installed in my machine.
I download SharePointEventReceiverManager tool. But when I run the SharePointEventReceiverManager.exe it thows an error "System.Null reference exception" and not show any site in.
Please Help
Hi Tobias,
I develop a list item event receiver For Sharepoint online.I upload the .wsp file in solution and activate the feature On ItemAdded event I create/generate document on 15 document library based on library template.
Some time it generate all 15 files and sometime it generate 8/10/12 files.
i.e no generate files in all the document library.
It work fine in my local server.
Please Help me.
Hi Sukanta,
Those questions are outside of the scope of this specific article and would be better suited in a discussion forum. Please head on over to www.mssharepointforums.com, I'm sure there's more people able to review the questions as well.
Regards,
Tobias.
Great post. Thanks for the write up.
I have recently created CAML Query designer based on my own requirements and I am giving that as an utility for free. Hope this will help SharePoint developers in better way.
http://praveenbattula.blogs...
There is another tool to build CAML query right from Visual Studio -
https://visualstudiogallery...
Nice Post. Thank you for sharing such a valuable information.
Hi Surya,
Thank you for the comment. I'm glad you liked the post.
Tobias.
Can I suggest a VS extension that I recently developed (SPClientSideDeployment)? This extension allows you to deploy files from VS to SharePoint (OnPrem or Online) using CSOM. Similar concept to SPFastDeploy, but works for general sites (i.e. not apps). More details here http://bernado-nguyen-hoan....
Hi,
this tool lets you to quickly edit js/css files and propertybag values in SharePoint Online, you can use "Chrome SP Editor" http://tiny.cc/chromesp . It's extension for Chrome browser, which lets you use Chrome's Developer Tool source editor to edit the files and save the changes back to SharePoint. Source code and information https://github.com/tavikukk...
Hi Tomi,
Thank you for the tip.
I have yet to check out the tool myself but appreciate the link :-)
Tobias.
Hi, I work for a company called QIPoint (http://www.qipoint.com) and we have a tool called SharePoint Broken Link Manager to scan and find Broken Links in SharePoint, also another free utility (paid versions have more features) called Site AUditing which scans and reports on Site and List Settings across Site Collections, would you be able to add to this list?
Hi Chris,
That doesn't sound much like a dev tool though, does it? :-)
Tobias.
Hi Tobias,
I think you are right. I saw this blog and thought our tool could be useful but likely not the best fit for your posting here as these are more 'developer tools' and this one is more for end clients.. Sorry about that!
https://spcb.codeplex.com/ not working and the alternative is not reliable
Hi Ofer,
What is it with the SPCB (https://spcb.codeplex.com) what you find not working?
I've used it successfully several times to dig into my Office 365 environments.
The alternative I haven't used in a long time, and only as a backup - hence your point could be valid about that one.
Cheers,
Tobias.
Gave me 404 yesterday. OK today. thanks
Glad it worked out, cheers.
Tob.
Hi Tobias, i need developers tools for SharePoint 2013 sandboxed solutions, can you advice a few?