Dear all,
Newbee here. My goal is to develop a small app/add-in for a sharepoint 2013 server. I do not have an MSDN subscription and no budget for expensive tooling. I'm running into some problems and could really use some help.
I'm following this tutorial: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142379.aspx
My situation: we have a sharepoint 2013 server running at my university.
I want to set up a test server so I can build and test an add-in which I can later deploy on the university's server.
I installed visual studio, I set up a development site on "https://<mysite>.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite/" and now I want to start developing in studio and deploy it on that site. I created this site by adding a new site collection, and
developer site template. I have also installed the office developer tools and basically everything I could install.
What I have not done is install azure and a virtual server with a Windows server running sharepoint. From what I understand from the article this is not needed.
Right, so I'm following the steps in the tutorial, only visual studio cannot seem to connect to the sharepoint. When created a new sharepoint add-in project, it gives the message: "Visual Studio can't connect to your SharePoint site to determine its version. Please choose the version of SharePoint you want to target from the options above."
When I select that manually, and start a new project, and a add a new list for example, I get the error: "Sharepoint connection error. Cannot connect to sharepoint site <etc.> Addition information: "Could not load file or assembly 'microsoft.sharepoint.client.runtime, version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'or one of its dependencies. Teh system cannot find the file specified."
Also I get errors in my project, mainly that it cannot find stuff like 'placeHolderMain' or unhandled exception occured while calling method 'projectService_ProjectInitialized' because the system cannot find the file specified.
Thank you in advance,
Martin
//edit: Whenever I click Tools->Add sharepoint connection I get the error: "The required version of SharePoint Foundation or Sharepoint Server is not installed on this system." (which makes sense).
I'm starting to think there's no way around installing a sharepoint server locally on a virtualized MS server, or is there? I'm running out of Disk space on my main partition and would really like to prevent having to do this.