SP-Development Tools

SharePoint - Development Tools

• End users − who use the platform as an application platform.
• Power users − who create and administer (and maybe brand) sites.
• Designers − who brand the site and build the user experience.
• Developers − who build and deploy apps.

A range of people interacts with SharePoint from the developers to the end users. It is represented in the following figure

End User

SharePoint Designer

Many developers prefer not to use SharePoint Designer as a tool for developing SharePoint site. However, the point is that the SharePoint Designer tool can make some development tasks easier.

The important features are −

• SharePoint Designer can be used for a variety of designer functions for SharePoint, including creating and editing sites, pages, lists, and content types.
• SharePoint Designer is also useful for creating rules-based, declarative workflow that can then be imported in Visual Studio for deeper-level customization.
• It can be downloaded and installed from https://www.microsoft.com/en-pk/download/details.aspx?id=35491
• When you first open SharePoint Designer, you need to provide it with the URL for your SharePoint site and authenticate as an elevated user.
• SharePoint Designer inherits standard SharePoint permissions.
• After you open your site in SharePoint Designer, a number of navigable options and some information about your site appear, such as site metadata, permissions, subsites etc.