Visual Studio2012: New SharePoint Development 2013

New in SharePoint Development

• Create lists and content types by using designers.
  You can more easily create a list or a content type by using a designer to set up and lay out the contents of the list or content type. For more information, see Creating Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists for SharePoint.
• Create site columns for SharePoint sites.
  You can more easily create SharePoint site columns, which are also known as "fields," by using an item template. For more information, see Creating Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists for SharePoint.
• Add Silverlight web parts to your SharePoint projects.
  You can more easily and conveniently create Silverlight web parts by using a project template. For more information, see Walkthrough: Creating a Silverlight Web Part that Displays OData for SharePoint.
• Publish SharePoint solutions to remote SharePoint sites.
  You can publish SharePoint solutions to remote SharePoint sites, in addition to local SharePoint sites. For more information, see Deploying, Publishing, and Upgrading SharePoint Solution Packages.
• Increase SharePoint performance by using profiling tools.
  By using tools in Visual Studio, you can identify code and other elements that are slowing down your SharePoint projects and perform other performance profiling. For more information, see Profiling the Performance of SharePoint Applications and Analyzing Application Performance by Using Profiling Tools.
• Create sandboxed visual web parts..
  You can include visual web parts in sandboxed SharePoint projects, not just farm projects.
• Create sandboxed solutions more easily.
  When you’re working on a sandboxed solution in Visual Studio, only compatible APIs appear in Intellisense, and a compiler error occurs if you try to use farm-only API calls.
• Debug JavaScript more easily.
  You can debug JavaScript in SharePoint projects, and IntelliSense is provided when you're coding JavaScript in SharePoint projects. URLs for JavaScript are resolved for visual web parts in sandboxed solutions.
• Develop SharePoint projects more easily by using streamlined project templates.
  To help streamline SharePoint development, some SharePoint project templates from the previous version of Visual Studio were moved into project item templates. For a full list and descriptions of the project and project-item templates, see SharePoint Project and Project Item Templates.
• Test your code by using the Microsoft Fakes framework.
  SharePoint projects support Microsoft Fakes, which is an isolation framework in which you can create delegate-based test stubs and shims in .NET Framework applications and test your code by isolating your unit tests from the environment. For more information, see Verifying and Debugging SharePoint Code by Using ALM Features.

Office Development

• Create apps for Office.
  An app for Office is a type of Office solution that provides new experiences within Office applications by surfacing web technologies and cloud services within Office documents, email messages, meeting requests, and appointments. For more information, see Create Apps for Office by using Visual Studio.
• Develop Solutions for Microsoft Office 2013 Preview.
  By using Microsoft Office developer tools, you can create document-level customizations and application-level add-ins for Office 2013 Preview applications. To obtain project templates for Office 2013 Preview applications, you download and install the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012.
  
  
  Reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/vstudio/bb386063.aspx

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