Listly by Mark Jones
A list of cool solutions that are open source or free and work in Microsoft SharePoint. Please vote - it's cool to see what the best ones are!
Open WOPI is a free and open WOPI Client, based on the MS-WOPI protocol specification. It is compatible with SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013.
The SharePoint Manager 2013 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property.
A tool to validate the necessary ports are open for the SharePoint PeoplePicker to function in trusted domain scenarios
SPServices is a jQuery library which abstracts SharePoint's Web Services and makes them easier to use. It also includes functions which use the various Web Service operations to provide more useful (and cool) capabilities. It works entirely client side and requires no server install.
Project Description Automated SharePoint 2010/2013 PowerShell-based installation script. Introducing AutoSPInstaller v3 with numerous enhancements including: Granular SQL server assignment and aliasing for (almost) every service/web app (for control freaks) Centralized, remote installation to all farm servers Ability to specify any XML input file, by passing it as an argument to AutoSPInstallerLaunch.bat Several tweaks & fixes AutoSPInstaller now works reliably with SharePoint 2013, and of course SharePoint 2010 including Service Pack 1 for SP2010 (with or without the June 2011 CU)!
SharePoing Log Viewer is a Windows application for reading and filtering Microsoft SharePoint ULS Logs.
ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. Good free alternative to .Net Reflector
The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.
Data Access Layer that gives access to SharePoint lists in a strongly type manner.
This project offers a small, lightweight framework (and also guidance) on how it's possible to test SharePoint using selenium in a reusable and clean way. The project follows the "Page Object" design pattern, so that instead of having to parse css, ids, xpath etc, directly in your test cases, you can now deal with c# page objects to make testing more readable and reusable.
Visit this Microsoft Windows PowerShell Community for resources including free tools, scripts and chats with PowerShell experts
Project Description The Feature Admin Tool finds faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstalls them.It finds feature remainders in sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, caused e.g. by forcefully uninstalled Features from a farm without deactivating them before. These faulty features, never visible, cause errors.The Feature Admin Tool is able to identify them and remove them.Very useful for migrations e.g.
This project extends the Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you will be able to find relevant information from your SharePoint environments without leaving Visual Studio.
Free Tool 2 - CAML Query Builder In this article we can explore the SharePoint 2010 free tool CAML Query Builder. What is CAML? CAML represents Collaborative Markup Language which is an XML based language for querying and updating SharePoint objects. What are the advantages of this tool?
Learn how to build an HTTP POST query, and how the different parameters should be formatted.
After running the query, you can view all types of result sets returned; Primary Results, Refinement Results, Query Rules Results, Query Suggestions, in addition to the actual raw response received from the Search service.
Can be used to query both SharePoint 2013 On-Premise, and SharePoint Online.
The Feature Admin Tool finds faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstalls them.It finds feature remainders in sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, caused e.g. by forcefully uninstalled Features from a farm without deactivating them before. These faulty features, never visible, cause errors.The Feature Admin Tool is able to identify them and remove them.Very useful for migrations e.g.
MatchPoint Snow is the brand new, free enterprise collaboration platform for SharePoint 2013 based on MatchPoint. Snow enables you to introduce SharePoint-based collaboration faster than with any other solution - with all the benefits of SharePoint and the MatchPoint application framework. On premise and in the cloud.