Will SharePoint 15 (2013) finally get an App Store?
by Mark Jones | Jan 31, 2012 Just decided to have a few minutes investigation into the recently released SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK to see if there is any insight into what's coming up! Before I get started, please note this information is all deduced from the Object Model documented in the SDK and is solely my opinion of what "may" happen. The SDK clearly states that it is "subject to change", so don't bet the crown jewels on anything in this post! The SPApp Store classes (SPApp, SPAppCatalog, SPAppInstance, SPApplicationCredentials, etc.) Well, it looks like SharePoint's going to get some tight integration with an App Store (aka market place). This has been on the cards for quite a while, but I thought they'd have to get the API developed to support it eventually. Reading between the lines, I think there's going to be somewhere in the SharePoint GUI to browse for an "App" in an on-line App S...