Installed Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

There are 2 ways to build Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 apps. We can use Office 365 online tools or we can use Visual Studio 2012. 

I plan to use Visual Studio 2012. 

I just downloaded and installed Microsoft Office Tools for Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8 machine. You need this to build Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 apps using Visual Studio 2012.

Once successful installation, when you create a new project, you should see 2 new project templates - App for Office 2013 and App for SharePoint 2013. These templates are used to build Office and SharePoint apps. 


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