Creating a first Visual Webpart for Sharepoint 2013
As compare to earlier version of SharePoint, development on sharepoint 2013 is charm. You just need to build your development environment and you are ready for development. I used Visual Studio Ultimate Edition for this using C#. You need to install Visual Studio on a machine where SharePoint 2013 is installed so that you can start development. The resources available on Microsoft site are more then enough to kick start with the development. Following are steps for creating a Hello World web part. 1. Open Visual Studio (as an administrator, other wise it will restart on step 4 ;) ) 2. Click File -> New -> Project as shown below 3. Select Template under Visual C#-> Office/SharePoint -> SharePoint Solution 4. On the right pane select SharePoint 2013 - Visual Web Part 5. It will ask for share point site (If you need to create SharePoint site collection follow my post ) 6. Validate site URL and select "Deploy as a farm solution" 7. As soon as you click...