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Does InfoPath 2013 support Visual Studio 2013?

I am trying to develop my own code for the InfoPath 2013 form. I have Visual Studio 2013 Professional installed, but when I try to change the code, I get the following message:

The following external components are required to edit your form code. Please install them and try again. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio C# Support Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012

C # support is installed along with Visual Studio tools for 2012 applications.

Does InfoPath 2013 Really Not Support VS2013?

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Unfortunately not

MS has really made some bad decisions lately

First, VS2013 was released, so they forced people to upgrade if you want to develop for Windows 8.1

Secondly, MS announced that they were dropping InfoPath and had not yet provided an alternative solution. Support is still available, but the successor to InfoPath 2013 will be another solution ..... I guess Azure forms or SharePoint forms, something like this

Very disappointing

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As you have found, adding code to an InfoPath 2013 form requires Visual Studio 2012. I don’t know how to use it with any other version of Visual Studio.

Depending on what you intend to use your code for, you can go through the qRules library (full disclosure: I am one of the developers of this library). It contains many of the most common functions for which people tend to use code in InfoPath, and you can use them simply by following the rules in your form, eliminating the need for any version of Visual Studio.

If there is a specific thing that you are looking for for code, I can tell you whether it is possible to do this with qRules, but you should open a separate question for this (and let me know here).

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