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Channel 9 Video: Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio

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UPDATE 5/14/14: The team released a new preview this week! See:
New Preview of Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio

I was in Redmond last week so I grabbed the old pocket camera and a conference room for an off-the-cuff interview with Michael Zlatkovsky, a Program Manager on the Cloud Business Apps team. Michael shows me the new Office 365 APIs and tools for Visual Studio. The Office 365 APIs allow you to easily integrate Office 365 services into your apps in a consistent way. You can access user data like calendars, documents and more using REST APIs and standard OAuth flows from any platform.

Michael shows off the Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio which adds the ability to quickly integrate and get up to speed with these APIs from your ASP.NET and Windows 8.1 apps.

Watch: Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio

Special thanks to Robert Green who wrote the basis of the expense report app used in this demo. The original app can be found at https://myexpenses.codeplex.com/.

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2014
    It can be used for other applications such as aspx ??

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2014
    Hi Luis, Sure! The O365 API is a REST-based API so you can easily access it from a variety of platforms, including non-Microsoft. For more information check out the docs: msdn.microsoft.com/.../dn605893 The trick is to set up an O365 developer account, see: msdn.microsoft.com/.../fp179924(v=office.15).aspx and then you'll need to use the Azure portal to register your app to get the client ID and set permissions. This is what the Visual Studio tool does for you so elegantly. If you need to do it manually, see: stackoverflow.com/.../get-started-with-office-365-rest-api Hope this helps!

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2014
    Cool stuff, but could you guys use a better quality video next time?  Its hard to see the text in the video.

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2014
    @drywaller79 - when you start the video, click the full screen icon on the bottom right and you should be able to see the text better. You can also click the "Watch" link I provided which will take you to the Channel 9 page where you can download higher quality recordings. Cheers!

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    March 28, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2014
    Hi, > The trick is to set up an O365 developer account the Company - i work for and i got my MPN MSDN account - doesn't use any cloud things at all  (just on premise) so the O365 is not part of my MSDN but i have Azure Dev and Office 2013 on prem (dev) - and i just want to buy the SharePoint Plan 2 - is that possible with that combination as well ?

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2014
    Is there a way to authenticate as an admin and do things to Exchange and SharePoint on behalf of users?

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2014
    @Klaus @buzznut - I don't know the answers. But if you post a question on StackOverflow and tag it [Office365APIs] someone will get back to you. stackoverflow.com/search Also, if you haven't seen it, we updated the tools on Monday: blogs.msdn.com/.../new-preview-of-office-365-api-tools-for-visual-studio.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2015
    Can We Manage User in Office 360 using Visual Studio(Web Application) ?