Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013

Setting up Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013 development

 If you are getting started with App or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 development, you will notice that there is no option in Visual Studio 2012 when you first install it.

 In order to get the templates into VS, you need to install Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 which can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps/fp123627 (direct install : http://www.microsoft.com/web/handlers/WebPI.ashx?command=GetInstallerRedirect&appid=OfficeToolsForVS2012GA).


Unfortunately, this leverages the Microsoft Web Platform Installer which does not play well in closed environments. The Microsoft Web Platform Installer will install the following items:

Microsoft Identity Extensions
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/1/D/01D06854-CA0C-46F1-ADBA-EBF86010DCC6/RTM/MicrosoftIdentityExtensions-64.msi

Workflow Manager Client 1.0
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/B/D/DBD439A9-370D-40EA-B3B7-45CD935B98FB/WF/en/WorkflowManagerClient_x64.msi

Microsoft Exchange Web Services 2.0
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/5/825231AC-D373-45D4-A644-7AF12340C815/EwsManagedApi32.msi

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation SDK 4.0
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/0/1/70118832-3749-4C75-B860-456FC0712870/WindowsIdentityFoundation-SDK-4.0.msi

Microsoft SharePoint Client Components
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/1/9/E1987F6C-4D0A-4918-AEFE-12105B59FF6A/sharepointclientcomponents_x64.msi

Microsoft Workflow Manger Tools
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/B/D/DBD439A9-370D-40EA-B3B7-45CD935B98FB/WF/en/WorkflowManagerTools_x64.msi

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/0/A60BE6E6-41E8-4A23-BF86-CD3CC2FE968A/ENU/vstor40_x64.exe

Microsoft LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2012
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/4/A/84A6C7F4-770F-48C2-A4E6-B3A7BAE1919F/vs_lightswitchV3.exe

Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 - Preview 2
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/0/A60BE6E6-41E8-4A23-BF86-CD3CC2FE968A/ENU/officetools_bundle.exe

 if you try to create a project for any of these new items, you will get the following error:

An error occurred whilst trying to load some required components, Please ensure the following prerequisite components are installed.

Microsoft Web Developer Tools
Microsoft Exchange Web Services"

To solve this, If you have already installed the Microsoft Exchange Web Services, uninstall it and then open up a command prompt. Navigate to the location of EwsManagedApi32.msi. In the command prompt, run the below (Refer the below screen shot).

EwsManagedApi32.msi addlocal="ExchangeWebServicesApi_Feature,ExchangeWebServicesApi_Gac"