Microsoft SharePoint Designer

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Microsoft SharePoint Designer
Developer Microsoft
Initial releaseNovember 30, 2006;18 years ago (2006-11-30)
Stable release
2013 (15.0.4849.1000) / August 2, 2016;9 years ago (2016-08-02) [1]
Operating system Windows 7 or later [2]
Platform IA-32 and x64
Size 282 MB – 324 MB [2]
Type HTML editor (originally), wiki software
License Freeware
Website www.microsoft.com/spd   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, is a discontinued freeware tool for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages. The original 2007 version was released as a member of the Microsoft Office 2007 family, and could be used as a generic HTML editor. The 2010 release became part of the Microsoft SharePoint family, [3] and could no longer operate in the absence of a SharePoint site. [4] SharePoint Designer 2013 is the last version. [5] [6]

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History

SharePoint Designer and its sister product, Microsoft Expression Web, are successors of Microsoft FrontPage. While Expression Web serves as the full-featured successor to FrontPage, SharePoint Designer focuses on designing and customizing Microsoft SharePoint websites. For instance, it only includes SharePoint-specific site templates. The first version, SharePoint Designer 2007, retains more FrontPage features than Expression Web (such as web components, database, marquee, hit counter, navigation bars and map insert).

SharePoint Designer 2007 was initially a commercial software product. On March 31, 2009, however, SharePoint Designer 2007 was made available as freeware. [7] [8] Microsoft released two service packs for this version: Service Pack 2 was released on April 24, 2009, [9] while Service Pack 3 came on October 24, 2011. [10]

The next major version, SharePoint Designer 2010, was released to web on April 21, 2010 in two flavors for IA-32 and x64 CPUs. [11] [12] [13] Unlike its predecessor, however, it does not operate in absence of Microsoft SharePoint Server or Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and therefore cannot be used as a generic HTML editor. [4]

On October 30, 2012, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2013. [2] This is the last version of SharePoint Designer; following the announcement of SharePoint 2016 in Ignite 2015 conference, Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager of Microsoft, revealed that a corresponding SharePoint Designer would not be released with this product. [5] [6] The last update for SharePoint Designer was released on August 2, 2016. [1]

Features

SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, user interface and HTML rendering engine with Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer's Trident engine. [14] It features a workflow designer that allows users of SharePoint to create workflow so that workflow can automate the process with the concept and objects such as list item, content type, and list column within SharePoint server. Starting from SharePoint 2013, it provides a text-based designer and a visual designer for non-developer users.

References

  1. 1 2 "August 2, 2016 update for SharePoint Designer 2013". Download Center. Microsoft. August 2, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "SharePoint Designer 2013". Download Center. Microsoft. October 30, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Product Information: Related Technologies". Microsoft SharePoint website. Microsoft. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  4. 1 2 Hoover, Kolby (November 2, 2009). "SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour". Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved January 27, 2013. A Few Limitations to Call Out [~snip~] As we shifted to being a powerful and usable toolset for SharePoint 2010, we securely attached to SharePoint. In other words, SPD focused at being only a SharePoint tool. Unfortunate for some, this means that you won't be able to use its page editor without also having SharePoint. The page editor is only available when a SharePoint site is open.
  5. 1 2 Kashman, Mark (May 8, 2015). "SharePoint UNPLUGGED! Questions Answered on Anything You Heard This Week". ignite.microsoft.com. Microsoft.
  6. 1 2 Overfield, Eric (May 11, 2015). "Ignite 2015 Announcement – There will be no SharePoint Designer 2016". Eric Overfield blog.
  7. ↑ "Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement)". Download Center. Microsoft. April 1, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  8. ↑ "SharePoint Designer 2007". Download Center. Microsoft. March 31, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)". Download Center. Microsoft. April 24, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Designer 2007 (KB2526089)". Download Center. Microsoft. October 24, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit)". Download Center. Microsoft. April 21, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (64-bit)". Download Center. Microsoft. April 21, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit)". Download Center. Microsoft. April 21, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  14. ↑ Mauceri, Rob (April 16, 2007). "Office Live and SharePoint". Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved January 27, 2013. SharePoint Designer doesn't use Trident. SharePoint Designer, Expression Web, and the next version of Visual Studio's Visual Web Designer (code name Orcas) all use the same standards-based web design component. This component was developed jointly by the three product teams for high fidelity rendering of web standards like CSS, XHTML, as well as ASP.net.

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