2017 UPDATE: if you are looking how to use SharePoint Designer 2013 with SharePoint Online / 2016, then please check out : “There is no SharePoint Designer 2016, but you can still use SharePoint Designer 2013“.
If you followed the social activity on the web ‘post ignite’ you may seen that SharePoint Designer may be killed off in SharePoint 2016. See Ben’s tweet after a session he attended :
Is this for real? If so, what’s going to replace it (if anything). I suspect this is just part of the general move to stop the amount of ‘customisations’ that customer’s currently do in SharePoint. Microsoft can’t maintain and support these long term (as it shackles innovation in the product), so I think it’s probably a good thing. There are often other ways to achieve the same thing in most cases.
What do you think? Will you miss it?
Just replied on LinkedIn to …
If you think about it from their point of view SP Designer MUST make it really hard for Microsoft to innovate in the product. Their regression testing bill must be horrendous now. SharePoint in some respects is too flexible for them to keep improving it. It’s why the App Model got introduced – there’s a definite need to keep the customisations ‘debt’ down and off the server.
