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This spring, at TechEd in the US, we announced<\/a> a new extensibility approach for VS Online, and ultimately for TFS too, based on REST, OAuth and Service Hooks.\u00a0 Today, we announced that the V1.0 of these APIs are now final.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say, by any stretch, that we are done with the APIs completely but rather that a core set are now complete and from here forward, we\u2019ll be versioning them for backward compat so your apps that use them don\u2019t break every time we update them.\u00a0 You can learn more in the VS Online release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve been playing with ways to make our (and by that I mean broadly across Microsoft) increasing set of REST APIs approachable.\u00a0 Our first generation was the VS Online REST API docs I linked to above.\u00a0 Today, we released a second generation, but this time for Office 365 REST APIs (we\u2019ll bring a version of the experience to VS Online as well).\u00a0 You can read more about how this all fits into the broader Microsoft Office API story<\/a> on the Office blog.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a couple of cool new things.\u00a0 First, we have REST documentation pages that allow you to actually execute sample REST API calls and get the result.\u00a0 You can also use tools like Fiddler to watch what\u2019s happening on the wire and understand every detail.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a link to the Office REST API reference root page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking at a sample for the mail REST API<\/a>, you\u2019ll see that there\u2019s a \u201cTry\u201d button that will execute the REST API with the parameter\u2019s you\u2019ve provided, in this case folder_id = \u201csentitems\u201d, and return the results from a sample account.\u00a0 There\u2019s currently no way to run this \u201cTry\u201d experience against your own O365 account but that\u2019s something we plan to provide in the future.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve truncated the results for brevity but you can see for yourself.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also introduced an API sandbox<\/a> that allows you to experiment with our APIs in a more free form fashion.\u00a0 In the sandbox you can type and execute JavaScript and view the results.\u00a0 For instance, below, I\u2019ve shown an example of calling the 0365 API for retrieving mail messages. I\u2019ve asked for messages from the inbox in reverse chronological order \u2013 and you can see the results in the bottom \u201cConsole\u201d pane.<\/p>\nREST API Exploration<\/h3>\n
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