Office Developer Tools in VS 2015 community edition not visible

Question

I installed the office developer tools for VS2015 successfully (without error message) but I cannot see the office templates in VS 2015. Does the developer tools not work in the community edition or is there another reason known?

Answer 1

Hi jokolade,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Please refer to the thread: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/2967004f-c5a5-4d9b-8d1b-824aa7f12e9f/where-to-get-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2015?forum=officegeneral

You can install the Office Developer Tools in the Community Edition by using the Web Platform Installer. The direct link to our download is here: http://aka.ms/officedevtoolsforvs2015

I have test it on my visual studio community 2015, after installing it you could get office developer tools.

Best regards,

Joyce

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Answer 2

Hallo Joyce,

 thank you for your fast answer. This helped me to solve my problem.

 I installed the VS2015 VS 2015 Community Edition. I also installed the office developer tools. According to your screenshot this should work.

 I had no information which .exe file I have to execute to start VS. I assumed it is blend.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE because this was in the list of the last executed programs after installation. Blend.exe runs fine, I can develop and run applications, but I cannot see the office developer tools.

 The solution is: To execute VS I have not to start blend.exe but devenv.exe in in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE. Doing so I have access to the office developer tools.

Best regards

Jo Kolade