Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview released!

This morning at the Microsoft Build Developer conference in San Francisco, S. Somasegar, Corporate VP for Developer Division, announced Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Visual Studio 2013 Preview contains the most recent update of the Office Developer Tools to support the development of apps for Office and SharePoint as well as SharePoint farm and sandboxed solutions. In addition to the support that was available in Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, the preview provides new features to help you build apps, including MVC web application support for apps for SharePoint, and the Publish Manager for apps for Office and SharePoint. Meanwhile, “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools continues to regularly release new features for app development. Check out the Apps for Office and SharePoint blog for more details!

Xiaoying Guo

Program Manager, Office Developer Tools

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 06, 2013
  any Major Improvement or new feature. MVP template for  SharePoint Apps?

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2013
  @usama wahab khan: Yes, now you can create MVC web application project with a SharePoint app. Please check out blogs.msdn.com/.../office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2013-preview-released.aspx for more details about the new features. Thanks! Xiaoying