API Reference (SharePoint Tools Extensibility)

This section contains API reference documentation for extending the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio.

In This Section

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint
  Contains types that you use to extend the SharePoint project system. For example, you can extend the built-in SharePoint projects and project items, or you can create your own project items.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Commands
  Contains types that you can use to create custom SharePoint commands. A SharePoint command is a method that calls into the SharePoint server object model from a SharePoint tools extension.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Deployment
  Contains types that you use to extend the deployment process for SharePoint projects.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Explorer
  Contains types that you use to extend SharePoint nodes in Server Explorer or to define your own types of nodes.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Explorer.Extensions
  Contains types that you can use to get information about built-in Server Explorer nodes that represent individual components on a SharePoint site, such as a node that represents a list, field, or content type.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Features
  Contains types that you use to access the definition of a feature in a SharePoint project.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Packages
  Contains types that you use to access the package definition in a SharePoint project.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Remote.Authentication
  Contains types that you use to authenticate and communicate with apps for SharePoint that are deployed to remote SharePoint sites.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Remote.Commands
  Contains types that you use to create SharePoint remote commands, which are used with apps for SharePoint that are deployed to remote SharePoint sites.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Tasks
  Contains types that Visual Studio uses as build tasks for packaging and debugging SharePoint projects, apps for Office, and apps for SharePoint. This API supports the Office and SharePoint infrastructure and isn't intended to be used directly from your code.

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.Validation
  Contains types that you use to customize the feature and package validation behavior for a SharePoint project.

See Also

Concepts

Reference (SharePoint Tools Extensibility)

Overview of the Programming Model of SharePoint Tools Extensions

Extending the SharePoint Project System

Extending SharePoint Packaging and Deployment

Calling into the SharePoint Object Models

Other Resources

Extending the SharePoint Connections Node in Server Explorer