It’s been a while since I asked this, but I am really interesting to see what the new answers are. Office 365 if now becoming more prominent so am wondering if the tools we use to do our jobs are changing?
Can you let us know what tools, apps, add-ons do you use to work with SharePoint or Office 365. Are there any hidden gems we are missing? Also – let us know your role with SharePoint (e.g. Developer, Power User, End User, Admin, etc).
Please – no promo – I only want to hear real world experiences 🙂
Awesome list Matt! thanks for taking the time to share. There’s a couple i haven’t heard of as well.
Here is a list I’ve compiled over the years. Â Am a developer / architect. Â The evolution of toolage – most of the 2010 stuff works on 2013 and none of these tools are especially useful for O365.
Office 365
SharePoint Designer
Visual Studio / Online TFS
Powershell
SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 Search REST API
Search index query tool
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nadeemis/archive/2012/08/24/sharepoint-2013-search-rest-api.aspx
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Manager
SharePoint Object Model Explorer, Browse every site on the local farm and view every property. You can also modify properties.
http://spm.codeplex.com/
dotPeek
For decompiling SharePoint assemblies to figure out WTF is going on.
http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
Active Directory Explorer
advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
http://technet.microsoft.com/da-dk/sysinternals/bb963907%28en-us%29.aspx
SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool
Visual Studio Add-In for recursively searching managed code for poor coding practices.
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
SharePoint LogViewer
View ULS logs / Farm support, there are better log viewers out there but this is what I’m currently using
http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com/
U2U CAML Query Builder
Build CAML Queries in a Windows Form.
http://www.u2u.net/Tools/wincamlquerybuilder/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx
JR Screen Ruler
Just a pixel ruler but useful for calculating dimensions.
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
Community Kit for SharePoint – Development Tools Edition, SharePoint Server 2010
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ee876627-962c-4c35-a4a6-a4d89bfb61dc
Great project templates & tools.
Community Kit for SharePoint – Development Tools Edition, SharePoint Foundation 2010
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a346880f-2d29-47a6-84a2-f2d568dd6997
Save as above but for Foundation
caml.net.intellisense
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/15055544-fda0-42db-a603-6dc32ed26fde
Intellisense for CAML. Can get a bit annoying but is quite useful.
Mavention Import List Instance
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b115200b-c475-4da7-8a81-25b51a2f97dd
Allows you to import List Instances existing in SharePoint into SharePoint project.
Mavention Export Page
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8c5da073-28c1-474f-af86-cc8532a9e4e0
Export SharePoint Publishing pages into XML for inclusion into SharePoint project.
Mavention Import Document Library Contents
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e9b27b19-c26e-4389-be28-acba2653ecc4
Imports the contents of a Document Library into your SharePoint project.
VS 2010 SharePoint Power Tools
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9
Templates and extensions.
SharePoint Search Service Tool
http://sharepointsearchserv.codeplex.com/
FAST Search Tool
SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST Search Tool
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/08/15/free-developer-search-tool-for-sharepoint-2010-search-and-fast-search-for-sharepoint.aspx
Supports FAST & SharePoint Search
Mark…I am using the SharePoint Online Management Shell interface…
