Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Introducing add-in commands

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15

Office Add-ins team

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 buttons on the ribbon in Outlook! This simultaneously simplifies interacting with add-ins, as well as makes their presence more visible and engaging. In a two-part series, we wanted to share our thinking behind why we invested in commands and how they work, as well as walk through a sample add-in with a command. This is the first post in the series.

File Handler Add-Ins Now Generally Available in Office 365

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15

Office Add-ins team

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

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

August 26, 2015 Aug 26, 2015 08/26/15

Office Add-ins team

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

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

August 12, 2015 Aug 12, 2015 08/12/15

Office Add-ins team

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

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices – August 2015 release

August 7, 2015 Aug 7, 2015 08/7/15

Office Add-ins team

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.