Richard's SharePoint and Tech Blog

I was looking for ways to add a custom field type using SharePoint app approach.  I found the following two good article that explain how it can be done.  With the app model, the custom field type control is just not possible any more. So, this is the way. http://blogs.technet.com/b/sharepointdevelopersupport/archive/2013/04/09/how-to-add-a-custom-field-to-blog-posts-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Client-side-rendering-JS-2ed3538a Client side rendering actually helps to easily change how a list renders its items as well.  All this technique should work for Office 365 or SharePoint online.

If you want to setup a SharePoint 2013 development environment with Visual Studio 2015.  It will be mandatory to install and setup your SharePoint 2013 first then install visual studio 2015.  VS 2015 install .NET 4.6 and it will cause issue when installing SharePoint 2013.  As SharePoint 2013 is looking for .NET 4.5 (probably hardcoded somewhere) and when it can't find it, it can't be installed. You can refer to this blog for more information. http://geekswithblogs.net/bjackett/archive/2015/07/28/be-careful-installing-.net-4.6--visual-studio-2015-with.aspx I found out the hard way and it took me a while to uninstall Visual Studio 2015 and uninstall .NET 4.6 before I can successfully install SharePoint 2013. So be aware, the order matters!!!!