Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices – August 2015 release

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 ...

Office 365 Groups REST API

August 4, 2015 Aug 4, 2015 08/4/15

Office Add-ins team

I recently did an Office 365 dev podcast with Jeremy and Richard, and they mentioned that I should do a blog on the Office 365 Groups API. Since we launched the preview of the Groups API in May this

Require.js in SharePoint Online on First Release Tenants

August 4, 2015 Aug 4, 2015 08/4/15

Office Add-ins team

As some of you in the community have noticed, there has been a recent change to the SharePoint Online service that includes Require.js references. Require.js is a JavaScript file and module loader.

Property Manager Hero Demo version 2 Ships!

August 4, 2015 Aug 4, 2015 08/4/15

Office Add-ins team

We've been working hard on getting v2 of the Property Manager Hero Demo shipped to Github.com. We had a lot of success with v1 of this hero demo. This was demonstrated in our Office 365 kick off

Populate your Office 365 Developer Tenant with sample data

April 3, 2015 Apr 3, 2015 04/3/15

Microsoft Graph team

An Office 365 Developer Tenant is a great resource for developing with the Office 365 REST APIs. It gives you a place to register your app, and a user to test against. However, you have to manually add data to your user’s mailbox or OneDrive. Today we’re excited to announce a sample Windows Store App project that will populate data for Office 365 API services such as mail, calendar, contact and files.

Working with Connected Diagrams Programmatically, part 1

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

Visio team

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; this blog will examine techniques for traversing connected diagrams. One of the most useful APIs for analyzing a connected diagram is the Shape.ConnectedShapes method, which allows you to get a reference to the shapes connected to a shape.

Visio 2010 XML Schema Definition Released

May 31, 2010 May 31, 2010 05/31/10

Visio team

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.

New Visio 2010 API for Configuring Raster Export

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

Visio team

Visio developer typically want to automate the export a diagram as a raster image in the PNG, JPG, BMP, or TIFF format for use in a web page or other applications. In this post, we’ll talk about the additions to the Visio object model that let developers configure each of these raster export settings.

User Interface Extensibility in Visio 2010

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

Visio team

Learn about RibbonX, 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 target scenarios unique to and optimized for their customers. As Visio adopts the Fluent UI, Visio developers now also have the opportunity to utilize this platform to build and customize Fluent UI to offer users a more discoverable and instructive UI experience.

The Visio Services JavaScript Mashup API

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

Visio team

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 Visio Services Mashup API and show you how to get started coding with a few simple examples.