Microsoft SharePoint is a CMS (Content Management System) with heavy Business support system features. SharePoint Developer uses Visual Studio for developing custom web parts and components for SharePoint. When getting started with SharePoint, we need to prepare the development environment. Follow the steps given below:
- Sign-up for Office 365 Trail.
- Sign-up for Microsoft Azure.
- Creating a Virtual Machine in Azure.
- Installing developer tools for Visual Studio.
- Creating a Developer site collection.
- Creating an App Catalog.
Sign-up for Microsoft office 365 trail account
You can create Microsoft office 365 trail account easily using the link
Click on create a new account button to create new Office 365 trail account. Enter the required information and click Next and you will see the following page.
After creating Office 365 account, you will get your Microsoft 365 user ID. Now your Sharepoint Online environment is ready for share point development but we will need to install visual studio and some visual studio developer tools in it. Check below
Microsoft provides a free version of visual studio, which also contains SQL Server and it can be downloaded from https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx.
Installing Visual Studio & Installing developer tools
After downloading Visual Studio from the above link, we need to install it now. Double click on the downloaded folder to open. Click on Open button to install Visual Studio for Mac.
Select the list of software that to be installed along with Visual Studio for Mac. Now click on the Install button.
Now Visual studio packages will be downloaded and Installed as shown below.
Getting started with SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Online has administration and Management interface called as SharePoint Admin Center. In the SharePoint Admin Center, we can create new site collections and configure any built-in services provided by Microsoft SharePoint. To open the Admin center (https://portal.office.com), you need to be a SharePoint Admin or a Global Admin for your organization.
Under Office 365 admin center, click on Admin as shown above and navigate to SharePoint as shown below.
Now we are redirected to SharePoint admin center with direct address format like https://{tenant}-admin.sharepoint.com, where {tenant} is your Office 365 tenant name that you specified during Office 365 provisioning and sign-up phase. Our Address is https://dynamicstutorials-admin.sharepoint.com.