

The SDK articles are designed to help developers and administrators evaluate Project and Project Server for extensibility and plan for custom solutions. The Project 2013 SDK includes developer information for Project Server 2013, Project Web App, Project Professional 2013, and Project Standard 2013. The Project Developer Center includes links to Project articles, blogs, videos, webcasts, visual how-to articles, and other resources. The articles and samples in this SDK provide a starting place for developing custom solutions and apps they do not address all programmability features of Project Server or Project Professional. NET Framework 4 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Project Server 2013 is built on the Microsoft. For an overview of the development platform that exists in Project Server 2010 and that Project Server 2013 is based on, see Getting Started with Development for Project 2010 on MSDN. For information about changes in the Project Server platform, see Project Server 2013 architecture.

For more information about new features and deprecated features, see Updates for developers in Project 2013. The new features include a client-side object model (CSOM) to enable access to Project Online, an OData service for online access to Project Server reporting data, remote event receivers, workflow architecture that is based on version 4 of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4), and Office Add-ins, which is a common architecture for task pane extensions in Microsoft Office 2013 client applications.Ī major change in Project Server 2013 is the use of a single database in place of the Draft, Published, Archive, and Reporting databases in Project Server 2010. The Project Server 2013 architecture is based on the platform introduced in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, with many additions and improvements. Project Server 2013 is a platform for building on-premises or cloud-based enterprise project management solutions and for building apps that end users can discover and acquire through AppSource (formerly Office Store). Introduction to the Project Software Development Kit (SDK)


For documentation of the model for SharePoint Add-ins, SharePoint-based workflows, Web Parts, development with other SharePoint features, and documentation of Office Add-ins, see SharePoint Add-ins and Office Add-ins. Project Server 2013 is built on the SharePoint Server 2013 platform, and Project 2013 includes much of the same infrastructure as the other Office 2013 applications.
