So you have been tasked with choosing between in on-site vs cloud versions of SharePoint. You have another choice and that is to do both also known as hybrid. SharePoint 2013 features are the same on-site and in the cloud. A Forrester Research Inc. survey of IT decision makers shows: …
For development you can use Visual Studio 2010 features (right click deploy) to install web parts and features, but once you get into testing/staging and production enviornemnts you can use the following script Web Parts POWERSHELL-SharePoint-WebPart.ps1 Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell Write-Host "Initializing parameters" $featureAction=$args[3] $CurrentDir=$args[0] $solutionName=$args[1] + ".wsp" $webpartName=$args[1] $SolutionPath=$CurrentDir + "\" + …