Try the Office Add-ins Development Kit and give us your feedback<\/a>! We look forward to your insights to help us improve the experience as we make the kit generally available.<\/p>\n T<\/span>he Office Add-ins Development Kit<\/span> is designed for a streamlined experience to help you get started to develop your Office Add-ins.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can install the Office Add-ins Development Kit using Extensions<\/strong> in Visual Studio Code or install it from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Office Add-ins Development Kit offers two ways to get started with a new project: templates and samples. Templates let you choose the Office application, programming language, and starting feature. Samples are more complete projects that demonstrate a realistic scenario.<\/p>\n Samples show a working add-in that solves an end-to-end scenario. Samples are most useful as learning tools to understand how features of the Office Add-ins framework work together. You can also expand a sample to fit your particular needs.<\/p>\n To understand how the add-in will work in Office apps, use the Office Add-ins Development Kit to run and debug your Office add-in in your local dev environment.<\/p>\n Select Preview Your Office Add-in (F5)<\/strong> to launch the add-in and debug the code. In the Quick Pick<\/a>, select the option Desktop (Edge Chromium)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The extension checks that the prerequisites are met before debugging starts. Check the terminal for detailed information if there are issues with your environment. After this process, the Office desktop application launches and sideloads the add-in.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re finished testing and debugging the add-in, select Stop Previewing Your Office Add-in <\/strong>to close the web server and remove the add-in from the registry and cache.<\/p>\n Currently, you can create Excel, PowerPoint, and Word add-ins using the Office Add-ins Development Kit. We’re working hard to enable support for add-ins to other Office applications and platforms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office Add-ins Development Kit is a new development tool to help you set up your environment, create Office Add-ins, and debug the code with a streamlined developer experience in Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126866,"featured_media":22862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,44],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-add-ins","tag-office-add-ins","tag-visual-studio-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" The Office Add-ins Development Kit is a new development tool to help you set up your environment, create Office Add-ins, and debug the code with a streamlined developer experience in Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"office](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/08\/office-add-in-dev-1024x609.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWhat’s new<\/h2>\n
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Get started<\/h2>\n
Prerequisites<\/h3>\n
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Install the Office Add-ins Development Kit<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWhat can I do with the extension?<\/h2>\n
Create an add-in from a template<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/li>\nCreate an add-in from a sample<\/h3>\n
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Preview your add-in in Office apps<\/h2>\n
Preview Your Office Add-in (F5)<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat’s next<\/h3>\n
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Additional resources<\/h3>\n
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