2017 UPDATE: if you are looking how to use SharePoint Designer 2013 with SharePoint Online / 2016, then please check out : “There is no SharePoint Designer 2016, but you can still use SharePoint Designer 2013“.
If you followed the social activity on the web ‘post ignite’ you may seen that SharePoint Designer may be killed off in SharePoint 2016. See Ben’s tweet after a session he attended :
Is this for real? If so, what’s going to replace it (if anything). I suspect this is just part of the general move to stop the amount of ‘customisations’ that customer’s currently do in SharePoint. Microsoft can’t maintain and support these long term (as it shackles innovation in the product), so I think it’s probably a good thing. There are often other ways to achieve the same thing in most cases.
What do you think? Will you miss it?
In SharePoint 2016, there will be No More SharePoint Designer, means no new version of SharePoint designer is coming to for new version of SharePoint but we can still use SharePoint Designer 2013 with SharePoint Server 2016.SharePoint Server 2016 is built on the same code base as SharePoint 2013 and the fact that you still can use SharePoint Designer 2013 on SharePoint Online, there are reasons to believe that SharePoint Designer 2013 will function very well with SharePoint Server 2016. There may be features that can’t be used, but you have other tools available such as Visual Studio, PowerShell, Browser and Design Manager.
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Larry,
What I want to do is to customize SP2013Online list form. Infopath has limited features. My question is. Can I use VS2013 ASP.NET C# to customize SPOline List forms \ views?
Thanks!
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You can use the Design Manager to turn a HTML page to master page then use the snippet galley to add search box etc. Or you can create a master page in VS or SP Designer…
Hi Larry,
I just wonder if you tried customizing SP2013 Online using VB 2013 ASP.NET C#? Do you know any helpful sites to do that?
Thanks!
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I know SPD 2013 will work on 2016, but still expected a new better version. To be honest I used SPD a lot for XSLT customization and I think is a great tool. I did expect Microsoft to put back design view.
