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dave3810
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Jun 23, 2022

We need to be able to build SharePoint 2016 WebParts with Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10.

We need to be able to build SharePoint 2016 webparts with Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10. How? Why do we need to have SharePoint Servers setup everywhere to build our SharePoint WebParts? Our sourc...
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dave3810
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Jun 23, 2022

dave3810 

 

I was able to get this all to work on VS 2017 and win10:

  • Follow using 16 hive for SP2016.

    https://weblogs.asp.net/ricardoperes/sharepoint-pitfalls-creating-a-visual-studio-project-without-sharepoint-locally-installed

  • Update registry with all settings HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\16.0 settings from the SharePoint Server.

Saw different problem with SP project not loading with "Update Required" error.

  • Update MinimumOfficeToolsVersion from 14.6 to 14.0 in the project files.

 

 

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