Visual Studio 2015 Missing SharePoint Templates

In this article, we’ll solve “Visual Studio 2015 Missing SharePoint Templates” for SharePoint 2016.

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Visual Studio 2015 Missing SharePoint Templates

When I tried to create a new SharePoint 2016 solution via Visual Studio 2015, I couldn’t find Office/SharePoint Template as shown below

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Missing Office / SharePoint template in Visual Studio 2015

Actually, you can’t find Office/SharePoint Template in Visual Studio 2015 because of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015 is not installed.

Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015 enables you to develop SharePoint solutions and add-ins for SharePoint 2016 that includes:

• Create new Office add-in projects using templates specific to an Office application (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
• Support new Office features such as add-in commands, Fabric UI, and new functionalities in Office.js.

You can find the list of office developer tools for Visual Studio at Office Developer Tools.

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Install Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015

To install SharePoint templates for Visual Studio 2015, you should install Office Developer Tools by doing the following:

Steps

• Download Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015.
• Double click on the download file to launch the Windows Platform Installer.

• Click install.

• Click on Direct Download Link.

• After downloading Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015.
• Double-click on the download file to install the office/SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2015, click install.
• After the installation process has been done,
• Open Visual Studio > New Project > Navigate > Expand the preferred language.
• The Office/SharePoint Template for Visual Studio 2015 should be now listed as shown below:

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Conclusion

In conclusion we have installed Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 to avoid “Visual Studio 2015 Missing SharePoint Templates” issue.

After installing “Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015“, we are able to create SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio 2015 now.

Applies to

• Visual Studio 2015.
• SharePoint 2016.
• SharePoint 2013.

You might also like to read

• Couldn’t find office/SharePoint template in Visual Studio Community 2013.
• Missing SharePoint 2016 Project Template in Visual Studio 2015.

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