Apps for Office and SharePoint blog
The official Microsoft blog for cloud app model developers of Office and SharePoint
Use “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools to build apps for Office and SharePoint on the browser
Since our Preview release, “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools has delivered many features and...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 08/27/2013
Cross-post from the SharePoint dev blog: Access OneDrive for Business using the SharePoint 2013 APIs
On Tuesday 8/13, the SharePoint dev blog published the following post:Access OneDrive for Business...
Author: SharePoint Developer Team Date: 08/13/2013
Now available: Refresh of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 developer training
The developer training for Office and SharePoint 2013 now contains updated information about new...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/30/2013
Introducing MVC support for apps for SharePoint
Apps are essentially web applications. If you know how to build a web application, you know how to...
Author: Chakkaradeep Chandran Date: 07/09/2013
Live from WPC: Office Store announces support for 22 additional markets
Today on the Office Blog, Dene Cleaver announced Office Store support for 22 additional markets...
Author: Randall Isenhour Date: 07/08/2013
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview released!
This morning at the Microsoft Build Developer conference in San Francisco, S. Somasegar, Corporate...
Author: Xiaoying Guo Date: 06/26/2013
Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA
With all the buzz around the new apps for Office programming model, developers might be wondering:...
Author: Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT) Date: 06/18/2013
Upgrading your app for SharePoint
Once you have submitted an app to the Office Store or published it to your corporate app catalog,...
Author: Miguel Caballero Pinto Date: 06/13/2013
Create a web service for an app for Office using the ASP.NET Web API
You may have heard that apps for Office use client-side programming when communicating with the...
Author: Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT) Date: 06/10/2013
Office Store now accepting listings in four additional languages – French, German, Japanese, and Spanish
We’re excited to announce that the Office Store is now accepting listings in four additional...
Author: Krishnan Raghupathi Date: 06/04/2013
New Office developer blogs network and Office developer highlights at TechEd North America 2013
Blogs for Office developers network We've launched a new top-level blog network that joins all the...
Author: Nina Ruchirat Date: 05/31/2013
Add search capabilities to your apps for SharePoint
With Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, developers can deploy custom search...
Author: Chakkaradeep Chandran Date: 05/30/2013
June 3 session: Develop apps for SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012
My name is Xiaoying Guo, and I’m a program manager on the Microsoft Office Developer Tools...
Author: Xiaoying Guo Date: 05/28/2013
Office and SharePoint 2013 Continuous Integration Using Team Foundation Service and Office 365
When your team is collaborating on a project, you need a regular and reliable development process to...
Author: Xiaoying Guo Date: 05/22/2013
Creating a mail app to check out Active Directory org information for mail senders and recipients
In an organization or enterprise setting, you frequently get included in emails with unfamiliar...
Author: angelgolfer Date: 05/15/2013
Convert your Office 365 Developer Subscription Preview to a General Availability subscription to save your content
On February 27, we reached the General Availability date for Office 365, and the preview period...
Author: Ricardo Loo Date: 05/06/2013
How to move or archive your Napa app projects
The "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools that you can install to your Office 365 Developer...
Author: Ricardo Loo Date: 05/06/2013
Getting attachments in a mail app
Mail apps can now use a new set of properties and methods in the JavaScript API for Office and...
Author: angelgolfer Date: 04/24/2013
Developer Must-Have: 125+ Apps for Office and SharePoint Code Samples
The Microsoft Office Content Publishing group has published more than 125 code samples for apps for...
Author: Ricardo Loo Date: 04/18/2013
Building great-looking apps for Office using the new project templates
In last month's release of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, the app for Office project...
Author: Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT) Date: 04/16/2013
Apps for SharePoint Page Patterns
When building your app, there are a few patterns we hope you will use for your pages. In choosing a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/09/2013
Getting data from Windows Azure Marketplace into your Office application
This post walks through a published app for Office, along the way showing you everything you need to...
Author: S. D. Oliver Date: 04/03/2013
SharePoint Workflow Development with Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
The official release of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (download) is packed with...
Author: Grace Kochavi Date: 03/27/2013
Update to debugging SharePoint 2013 remote events using Visual Studio 2012
Update 5/11/2015: Please note Microsoft Azure Service Bus now supports two types of connection...
Author: Chakkaradeep Chandran Date: 03/21/2013
Providing satisfactory performance for mail apps in Outlook
Providing a good user experience is a joint effort of the underlying app for Office platform and the...
Author: angelgolfer Date: 03/20/2013
Duet workflow extensibility and SharePoint-hosted apps Part 1
In this blog post, learn how to retrieve updated information for a Duet workflow task from SAP and...
Author: Harsh Kumar Choudhary Date: 03/15/2013
Download the Office and SharePoint Visual Studio tools!
Hello Office and SharePoint developers!You may have read Somasegar’s announcement yesterday...
Author: Randall Isenhour Date: 03/05/2013
New MSDN forum: Publishing Apps for the Office Store
We’re excited to provide a new forum as an additional resource specifically for our Office...
Author: Nina Ruchirat Date: 02/06/2013
Closures and asynchronous chaining in Office JavaScript
In this post, we’ll discuss JavaScript closures and how misunderstanding them can lead to seemingly...
Author: MarkBrew Date: 02/06/2013
Quickly start developing apps with the new “0-60” developer experience
The new “0-60” developer experience allows you to start developing apps for Office and...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/21/2013
Debugging Remote Event Receivers with Visual Studio
Editor’s update (3/21/2013): The RTM version of the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012...
Author: Chakkaradeep Chandran Date: 01/03/2013
IFraming SharePoint-hosted pages in apps
This post is brought to you by Matt Swann, Senior Security Engineer on the SharePoint security team,...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/12/2012
Solving cross-domain problems in apps for SharePoint
Hello there, I'm Humberto Lezama-Guadarrama, Program Manager on the Office Developer Platform team....
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/29/2012
Developing an SharePoint 2013 AutoHosted App with Admin On-Behalf BCS Subscription
Introduction to BCS events Until SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) was all about...
Author: RomaShah Date: 11/28/2012
Building apps for PowerPoint!
Building apps for PowerPoint! Hello app for Office developers! This is Juan Balmori with another...
Author: Juan Balmori Date: 11/27/2012
Goodbye GetAllContentAsync, Hello getFileAsync!
Hello apps for Office developers! This is Juan Balmori, PM of the JavaScript API for Office (aka...
Author: Juan Balmori Date: 11/20/2012
Announcing the Latest Release of Office Developer Tools
Kicking off SharePoint Conference 2012 this morning, Scott Guthrie, in his keynote speech, announced...
Author: Grace Kochavi Date: 11/12/2012
Licensing your apps for SharePoint
This blog post is brought to you by Humberto Lezama Guadarrama. Humberto is a Program Manager in the...
Author: Ricardo Loo Date: 11/09/2012
Session Essentials for Developers at SharePoint Conference 2012
My name is Keenan Newton, and I am the developer audience owner for SharePoint Conference 2012. SPC...
Author: Keenan Newton Date: 11/07/2012
Important developer changes from Office and SharePoint 2013 Preview to Office and SharePoint 2013
This post is brought to you by the Office and SharePoint Product and Content Publishing Teams. One...
Author: Ricardo Loo Date: 11/05/2012
Building apps for Office and SharePoint workshops – Coming in November and December!
Do you want to learn how to build apps for Office and SharePoint and get your apps into the...
Author: donovanf [Microsoft] Date: 11/02/2012
Creating and verifying licensing in a paid app for Office
I'm Krishnan Raghupathi, a Program Manager on the Office Store team. If you've read David's earlier...
Author: Krishnan Raghupathi Date: 11/01/2012
A great opportunity to learn more about apps for Office and SharePoint today @ 5PM PDT
Brian Jones, the GPM for the apps platform and an author on the blog, will be doing a live interview...
Author: Hila Shemer Date: 10/30/2012
Curious about how to leverage Office 365 through Windows 8 apps?
Post Update: I got a few requests to modify the code in my previous blog post to enable SSO (single...
Author: Cyrielle Simeone Date: 10/29/2012
Inserting images with apps for Office
Hi! I'm Gareth Pinto, a Program Manager on the Office Solutions Framework team working on the new...
Author: Gareth Pinto Date: 10/26/2012
Using an OData Service in apps for SharePoint
I am Ayushi Garg, a tester on the SharePoint Developer Experience Team. In this blog post, I will...
Author: Ayushi.Garg Date: 10/24/2012