SharePoint tools are a great asset when a growing business wants to keep its software up-to-date. It allows you to download free templates for instant use and are designed in a way that even non-developers would find it easy-to-use.
From analyzing application code to deploying and testing it, the tools listed below can aptly assist you in your SharePoint application development life-cycle. From the several tools available, we have shortlisted the best five that provides a better SharePoint development experience. 5 Best SharePoint App Development Tools SharePoint Manager: With this tool you can browse every site on the platform, viewing each property in a simple yet intuitive way. Its interface enables a quick and easy navigation with investigating settings, properties, schema XML, and more. Most of your SharePoint environment can be investigated with the help of this tool. Debugger Canvas Tool: Debugging and maintaining the performance of your site is a tedious task. But with the Debugger Canvas tool, it becomes relatively painless. As you launch the debugger, a canvas is created which brings your code into a single-pan and zoom display, allowing you to scroll through the code you’re working on and choose a specific part to see the exact method you are debugging. It also provides the advantage of debugging multiple threads side-by-side, which helps you efficiently speed up your development. Another advantage it offers is the option to reuse the canvas bubbles when the content is same while creating new cases for each invocation of the method. Smtp4dev Testing Tool: Smtp4dev is one excellent SharePoint tool that allows you to test emails by directly viewing them in the tool’s UI, without having the access to internet. This enables easier testing through the SMTP server. It verifies its logic and correctness, even when the emails are automatically scheduled for various times. Furthermore, it doesn’t send the emails to the actual recipients and is the best option to work with things specific to emails or automated processes. CKS Dev Tool: This SharePoint app development tool is a Visual Studio extension. You can explore relevant information without leaving the app in four core areas of environment, exploration, content, and deployment. It enables you to manage your development routines and enhances productivity when you are on a coding adventure. It even adds a bunch of new items to your SharePoint project and improves your development experience. Color Palette Tool: The color palette was developed to help enterprises enhance their branding. It comes with new branding possibilities and helps you theme all the material and instantly explain your vision instead of outsourcing it to a designer. You can create and upload your exact design to the theme gallery and create a fresh ‘composed look’ which can be applied to each page on your website. It is a must-use tool for those who usually keep wobbling up with their own CSS files. These tools are commonly used by most developers and once you start exploring them, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without them. If you think we’ve missed out on any other great SharePoint tools, do enlighten us through the comments. |
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