SharePoint development is still a flourishing sector in the software development Dubai industry. Emerging trends intrigue developers enough, for them to come up with innovative ways for both leveraging SharePoint effectively and making the development more productive and easier. 

There are a plethora of tools that can come in handy for organizations, including startups, and individuals that provide SharePoint development services. Picking the best or the most useful ones can be quite challenging. Nevertheless, this article lists a few tools that made their way into the favorite list of many SharePoint developers in Dubai. We’ve excluded the very common Visual Studio from the list.

• SharePoint Manager 2013: The SharePoint Manager 2013 is a SharePoint object model explorer that enables developers to browse the sites on the local farm, look at the settings, and properties. The tool is indispensable as it allows developers to investigate pretty much everything they do in SharePoint. 
  
• SharePoint Solution Deployer (SPSD): SharePoint Solution Deployer, like the name suggests, helps to manage and deploy SharePoint solution packages to multiple SharePoint environments. 
  
• SharePoint ULS Log Viewer: This is an additional tool that serves a purpose similar to the ULS Viewer provided by the SharePoint developer dashboard. The ULS Log Viewer also allows the developer to check all ULS log views, and works with both SharePoint 2010 and 2013. 
  
• CAML Designer: The developers may often have to work with CAML. This tool can be a great asset in such scenarios, in helping developers build CAML queries. The new version of CAML designer also generates REST query for SharePoint 2013 online. 
  
• SharePoint Color Palette tool: The color palette tool provides color palettes for designing in SharePoint 2013.
  
• SharePoint Code Analysis Framework (SPCAF): The SPCAF tool is used to analyze solutions and code before production. It makes sure that the solution is fit to enter production. The tool can also be integrated with Visual Studio or used as a stand-alone application. 
  
• Fiddler: It’s considered more as an add-on by experienced SharePoint developers. Almost every reputed application management services company providing SharePoint solutions have heard of or extensively use Fiddler. With Fiddler, they can analyze SharePoint requests from clients efficiently. 
  
• SharePoint 2013 Client Browser: The client browser tool facilitates remote connection to any SharePoint environment so the developers can check data and artifacts through a Client API. It can come in handy in many situations. 
  

Conclusion

There are still so many more useful tools that SharePoint developers can arm themselves with. But these are the ones that are widely known in the SharePoint development industry in Dubai. They can indeed make SharePoint development much easier.