Office Add-ins

Introducing add-in commands

Microsoft Office team August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15

Today we bring you the first in a two-part series of guest blog posts from Andrew Salamatov, a Senior Program Manager with our Outlook team. You can find the second part here. Enjoy! Back at Build and Ignite, we announced a brand new feature, that we’re very excited about – Outlook add-ins (formerly called apps for Outlook) can now place...

File Handler Add-Ins Now Generally Available in Office 365

Microsoft Office team August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15

During Build and Ignite 2015, we announced the preview refresh of File Handler add-ins. This add-in type allows developers to create their own custom viewers and editors for non-Microsoft file types in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Outlook Web App. We are pleased to announce that this feature is now ...

Creating Office Add-ins with any editor – Introducing YO OFFICE!

Microsoft Office team August 26, 2015 Aug 26, 2015 08/26/15

When building Office Add-ins developers are provided first-rate tooling with Visual Studio 2013/2015. Developers can easily create Office Add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word and other Office applications by simply using the familiar File => New Project dialog and answer a few questions. After coding the add-in, pressing F5: ...

Getting Started flows for Office 365 APIs and Office Add-ins

Microsoft Office team August 12, 2015 Aug 12, 2015 08/12/15

We are excited to announce some updates to our Getting Started Experiences for Office 365 APIs and Office Add-ins. We've built this from the ground up as our goal is to empower developers to build solutions for their customers that use Office, and we think having a good on ramp on our site is an important part of your ...

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices – August 2015 release

Microsoft Office team August 7, 2015 Aug 7, 2015 08/7/15

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) August 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the others in the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past two months, since we ...

Working with Connected Diagrams Programmatically, part 1

Visio team July 13, 2011 Jul 13, 2011 07/13/11

In a previous blog post, we told you about the new Connectivity APIs in Visio 2010 that make it easier for developers to create and to move across a connected diagram. We’ve shown you how to use some of the new APIs to create new connected shapes; now we’ll examine techniques for traversing connected diagrams. One of the most useful APIs ...

Visio 2010 XML Schema Definition Released

Visio team May 31, 2010 May 31, 2010 05/31/10

Visio has published the XML Schema Definition (XSD) files for the Microsoft Visio 2010 XML Drawing (.vdx) format. This schema is also known as DatadiagramML. The .XSD files allow developers to better understand the structure of Visio XML documents and design solutions that work with the .VDX file format. The DatadiagramML Schema for Visio ...

New Visio 2010 API for Configuring Raster Export

Visio team March 3, 2010 Mar 3, 2010 03/3/10

When we talk to developers to get their feedback on the Visio development platform, a common request we hear is the ability, through the API, to control the settings used when exporting a diagram as a raster image in the PNG, JPG, BMP, or TIFF format. Typically, they want to automate the export of the pages in a document as images for use in a...

User Interface Extensibility in Visio 2010

Visio team February 24, 2010 Feb 24, 2010 02/24/10

When Office 2007 was introduced, a new UI paradigm was adopted, and so was a new UI extensibility model, the RibbonX (Ribbon extensibility) model. RibbonX is a XML markup that allows developers to customize the Office UI. It enables 3rd party developers and solution providers to build custom tabs and groups on top of the Ribbon, and ...

The Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API

Visio team February 21, 2010 Feb 21, 2010 02/21/10

Last week, we took a look at how to create interactive mashups with Visio diagrams without writing any code. If you need more flexibility in creating rich diagram mashups than offered out of the box by web part connections, you can use the Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API. In this post we'll review the breadth of possibilities by the ...

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