Apps for Office and SharePoint blog

The official Microsoft blog for cloud app model developers of Office and SharePoint

This is the final Apps for Office and SharePoint blog post. We've moved to the Office Developer...

Date: 07/22/2014

You can now access the Office 365 REST APIs from .NET and JavaScript, using a new set of client...

Date: 05/12/2014

UPDATE 5/12/2014 - A new preview is available. You can now access the Office 365 APIs using client...

Date: 04/23/2014

On 3/27, Andrew Salamatov published Customizing the compose experience with mail apps for Outlook....

Date: 03/31/2014

Come see us at this year’s //build conference as we take you on a journey through the latest updates...

Date: 03/28/2014

Documents are critical pieces of information in many business applications. That’s why we added...

Date: 03/18/2014

The Microsoft ecoSystem group is pleased to announce the free Modern Trend app for Excel. It is now...

Date: 03/14/2014

UPDATE 5/12/2014 - A new preview is available. You can now access the Office 365 APIs using client...

Date: 03/12/2014

Visual Studio 2013 introduced a new project template for Office 365 Cloud Business App to enable...

Date: 03/11/2014

At SharePoint Conference, we announced a couple of experimental UI widgets to help you build apps...

Date: 03/07/2014

In October 2013, we launched the Office and SharePoint developer UserVoice, which allowed us to get...

Date: 03/06/2014

This week we published a new type of content called showcase apps. Are you looking for a 30,000 foot...

Date: 03/05/2014

In this post, learn about the new infographics that visually explain many aspects of SharePoint...

Date: 03/05/2014

Learn about a tool that analyzes your SharePoint full-trust code solutions and Office add-ins and...

Date: 03/04/2014

The SharePoint Conference 2014 (SPC14) this week in Las Vegas is an exciting time for Office and...

Date: 03/03/2014

UPDATE 2/20/2014: Preliminary voting is done, and we have 4 finalists! It’s time for you to...

Date: 02/20/2014

The Office Store is officially one year old! We’d like to share some pointers that will help...

Date: 02/17/2014

Windows Azure Websites are a great hosting platform for a variety of applications – and your app can...

Date: 01/15/2014

If you’re attending the SharePoint Conference this year, do not miss the Design Time sessions!...

Date: 01/09/2014

The Microsoft ecoSystem group is pleased to announce the free app Package Tracker for Outlook 2013...

Date: 12/12/2013

An app for Office often accesses external resources such as search results, blog posts, and videos....

Date: 12/11/2013

Visual Studio allows developers to sideload apps for development and test use only. In this post,...

Date: 12/10/2013

Sometimes, a simple tweak can make navigating a website so much easier. Thomas Herbst, a developer...

Date: 11/20/2013

This year, an MVP will conduct an all-day pre-conference training focusing on the key developer...

Date: 11/19/2013

This article describes the importance of data format in extracting and visualizing Excel data using...

Date: 11/18/2013

Cloud Business Apps in Visual Studio 2013 allow you to easily integrate with SharePoint and use the...

Date: 11/14/2013

In Visual Studio 2013, a new SharePointContext helper is available for app for SharePoint projects....

Date: 11/07/2013

In this article, we describe how to add a proxy for those public APIs that don’t support secure...

Date: 11/06/2013

The Person business type is a feature of the new Cloud Business App project introduced in Visual...

Date: 11/05/2013

Office 365 is an ideal business app platform providing a core set of services expected in today’s...

Date: 10/31/2013

Learn about the new tools for remotely debugging workflows in Visual Studio 2013. In Office...

Date: 10/30/2013

We continue to make progress in unifying our platform and providing one consistent experience for...

Date: 10/29/2013

Visual Studio 2013 RTM is now available for download! This release brings you the latest set...

Date: 10/17/2013

This article shares tips for developing mail apps in time zone conversion, secure (https) data...

Date: 10/16/2013

The Microsoft ecoSystem group is pleased to announce two free apps the People Graph app v1.1 for...

Date: 10/10/2013

We are excited to announce that the Office and SharePoint Developer Platform team has launched a new...

Date: 10/09/2013

Since the introduction of the app model, we’ve seen some great apps that showcase what the platform...

Date: 10/08/2013

This article describes how to leverage SharePoint 2013 permission management to create different...

Date: 09/25/2013

In this article, we explain a method to store configuration data by using a SharePoint hidden list....

Date: 09/19/2013

The blog post on SharePoint Workflow Development with Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012...

Date: 09/18/2013

The API Tutorial for Office teaches you how to get started writing code for an app for Office. The...

Date: 09/11/2013

In this article, we use the Wikipedia app for Office to show how to communicate between two domains...

Date: 09/10/2013

Apps for Office can run in different browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9 and 10, Firefox, Chrome,...

Date: 09/02/2013

In this article, we will share a Visual Studio debugging tip for debugging JavaScript files that are...

Date: 08/30/2013

The JavaScript API for Office (Office.js) provides a way for developers to manipulate rich content...

Date: 08/28/2013

Inserting content into your Office documents is an important part of the app model. In this post,...

Date: 08/28/2013

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