title: Setting up Visual Studio with a cloud based SharePoint site
body: <p>I have a SharePoint site on the cloud where I access it through a URL like this one; </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://exampleemeamicrosoftonlinecom-1.sharepoint.emea.microsoftonline.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://exampleemeamicrosoftonlinecom-1.sharepoint.emea.microsoftonline.com</a> </p>
  
  <p>I can also edit the site with SharePoint Designer by pointing to the same URL.</p>
  
  <p>I'm at the stage in the project where I want to do some specific things so I am going to use Visual Studio, but I don't know how to set up Visual Studio with a cloud based SharePoint site? When I go to add a SharePoint site I get the following error;</p>
  
  <p>A SharePoint server is not installed on this computer. A SharePoint server must be installed to work with SharePoint projects.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried to add the URL as a server in Visual Studio but I get the error;</p>
  
  <p>Server name "<a href="https://exampleemeamicrosoftonlinecom-1.sharepoint.emea.microsoftonline.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://exampleemeamicrosoftonlinecom-1.sharepoint.emea.microsoftonline.com</a>" could not be found. Make sure the server name is correct.</p>
  
  <p>I have SharePoint Designer working with the SharePoint site, why won't Visual Studio work?</p>