Using VS 2012 and trying to connect to my SharePoint 2013 farm for web and apps development.
I installed the Office Tools for Visual Studio 2012, but when trying to start a new SharePoint 2013 project, I get an error window saying that I have to have SharePoint 2013 Foundation or Server installed in order to create a SharePoint 2013 Project. I get the same error when trying to establish a new SharePoint connection (Tools > Add SharePoint Connection).
According to the VS 2012 documentation, one does not have to have SharePoint 2013 installed on the same system as Visual Studio anymore, as was the case with SharePoint 2010 / VS 2010.
What's missing? This page looked promising, but I followed all the instructions here and didn't get further at all: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/timquin/archive/2013/01/22/setting-up-visual-studio-2012-for-sharepoint-2013-development-offline.aspx.
One note: I am running Office 2010 and Office 2013 locally on the same machine, using Windows 7 OS. Is it possible that Visual Studio is trying to use the Office 2010, or SP14, libraries and this is why I am getting the errors? If yes, can I fix this without having to uninstall Office 2010?
Thanks,
Radu
Radu P.
