Awesome SharePoint!

A collection of awesome libraries, tools, frameworks, and software for SharePoint

Inspired by awesome-dotnet, awesome-ruby, awesome-php, awesome-python, frontend-dev-bookmarks and ruby-bookmarks.

Contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard pages first.

Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and this wouldn't have been possible without you! The goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

Visual Studio Extensions

• CKS: Development Tools Edition - A collection of Visual Studio templates, Server Explorer extensions and tools providing accelerated SharePoint 2010/2013 development.
• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2013 - PowerShell integration for Visual Studio.
• Debugger Canvas - A new user experience for the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate. It pulls together the code you’re exploring onto a single pan-and-zoom display. Currently it only supports VS 2010, hopefully it will be ported to newer versions soon.
• SPFastDeploy - An extension to deploy single file resource (scripts, css, etc) to on-premise and Office 365 SharePoint app model.
• CAML.NET Intellisense for Visual Studio 2010 - A Visual Studio Extension intends to facilitate the development by displaying details of the properties via IntelliSense.

Libraries

• Camlex.Net - Simplifies creating of CAML queries for Windows SharePoint Services by using expression trees.
• SPServices - A jQuery library which abstracts SharePoint's Web Services and makes them easier to use.

Productivity

• SharePoint ULS Log Viewer - A windows application for viewing SharePoint ULS log files more easily. Supports filtering and easy viewing of data.
• SharePoint Manager - SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property.
• CAML Designer 2013 - With the help of this tool you can: build CAML queries for single lists, build queries that can be executed with SPSiteDataQuery, get code snippets for the server-side object model, the JavaScript client-side object model and last but not least code snippets when working with REST.
• SPCAF – SharePoint Code Analysis Framework - A code quality tool that analyses SharePoint solutions and apps and checks JavaScript, .NET code, XML, ASPX, CSS for correctness, best practices etc. Additionally it calculates code metrics, creates artifact dependency graphs, and solution documentation.
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard Visualizer - A jQuery-based solution that extends the Developer Dashboard by plotting an interactive diagram with data from the Developer Dashboard.

Branding

• Starter Master Pages for SharePoint - Clean Starter Master Pages for SharePoint, a clean, commented starting point for creating your own SharePoint branding.
• Color Palette Tool for Branding - This tool provides color palette functionality for use with SharePoint designs.

Search

• SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool - A tool for testing and debugging search queries against the SharePoint 2013 Search REST API.
• FAST Search for Sharepoint 2010 Query Logger - The FS4SP Query Logger will make it easier for developers and IT pro's to debug user queries.

Utilities

• smtp4dev - A dummy SMTP server.
• dotPeek - A free .NET Decompiler and Assembly Browser.
• ILSpy - An open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler, a free alternative to .NET Reflector by Red Gate.
• Fiddler - A free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform.

Administration

• SharePoint 2013 and ADFS 2.0 Test with Claims Viewer Web Part - A web part that provides an easy solution to view the contents of the SAML token.
• SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool - Finds faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstalls them.
• SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack - A Forms Based authentication pack for SharePoint 2013.
• SPBestWarmUp - A warm-up script for SharePoint pages.
• STSADM custom extensions - Extend STSADM and PowerShell commands.
• Free SharePoint Monitoring Tool - A free SharePoint Health Monitor tool helps keep a close watch on SharePoint environment such as SharePoint Site, IIS server, MSSQL server and Host server.