Recently I was into a SharePoint 2013 overview training. Though the theory was fine, starting the actual App Development was a major hiccup, due to few changes that an experienced SharePoint developer would not expect.
As most of you would know by know, that SharePoint 2013 app development is supported in 2 ways:
- Napa tools development
Here the development environment is hosted inside a browser and no local installation is needed.
- Visual Studio 2012
Here you install VS 2012 and all the related tools (Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and the SharePoint Client Components) on your local machine and do the development without installing SharePoint 2013 locally.
But how about the traditional way of development? Where you had SharePoint and Visual Studio and tools, everything locally and do the deployment and testing without much fuss? Remember, setting up a SharePoint developer workstation?