Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is Available Now!

Finally the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is available now. 

The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provide broad and deep support, ranging from new templates to new designers to a whole host of integrated lifecycle tools.  They enable developers to create, edit, test, debug, package, and deploy apps for Office and SharePoint, across all current Office and SharePoint hosting models and app types.  In addition, beyond supporting a new application model based on web technologies, these tools also provide full support both for VSTO Add-ins and SharePoint Solutions.

For those of you who have downloaded our preview builds of these tools, you’ll find some very welcome enhancements in this release.  For example, the tools now include a validation experience that helps you to find and fix common errors prior to submitting your apps to the Office Store.  They enable a continuous integration workflow, with both the on-premises Team Foundation Server and the cloud-hosted Team Foundation Service supporting build workflows for apps for Office and SharePoint. Windows Azure cloud service projects can be used to easily create provider-hosted apps for SharePoint.  The workflow designers have been dramatically improved, with a lot of fit-and-finish applied since the last preview.  Remote debugging is now much more applicable and powerful, thanks to Service Bus.  And a whole lot more, for more details, check out the blog here and the following links:

1. From Office & SharePoint Apps Blog – MSDN Office Store Apps Publishing Forum :

    https://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/02/07/new-msdn-forum-publishing-apps-for-office-store.aspx

2. Download Visual Studio 2012 Office Developer Tools (requires VS2012 Pro or above) :

    https://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2012

3. The above also requires Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.5, downloadable from :

    https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

4. Don’t have VS2012 Pro? You can buy it from https://aka.ms/DNBuy (Select Malaysia) together with an MSDN subscription.

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