Episode

VS Code Livestreams: Excel Add-in Development

with Reynald Adolphe

Come learn about how easy it is to develop an Excel Add-in and make use of some of the cool new APIs available. In today's stream, we will connect Excel to a live service and create custom functions to make this data accessible in Excel.

Chapters

00:00 - VS Code Livestream begins
00:27 - Welcome
02:46 - What we're talking about today
04:45 - Excel Add-ins, Data Types APIs and Code
08:09 - Add-in basics
10:02 - Data Types
14:07 - Data Types Feature Integration
15:38 - Data Types APIs
16:02 - Composable Building Blocks
17:47 - Increasing Developer Velocity
19:04 - New Values API
20:48 - Demo - Meme Generator - an Excel Add-in - https://aka.ms/OfficeAddin/YeomanGene...
42:04 - Excel JavaScript preview APIs - https://aka.ms/ExcelJavaScript/APIs
55:38 - Generating memes in Excel

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Chapters

00:00 - VS Code Livestream begins
00:27 - Welcome
02:46 - What we're talking about today
04:45 - Excel Add-ins, Data Types APIs and Code
08:09 - Add-in basics
10:02 - Data Types
14:07 - Data Types Feature Integration
15:38 - Data Types APIs
16:02 - Composable Building Blocks
17:47 - Increasing Developer Velocity
19:04 - New Values API
20:48 - Demo - Meme Generator - an Excel Add-in - https://aka.ms/OfficeAddin/YeomanGene...
42:04 - Excel JavaScript preview APIs - https://aka.ms/ExcelJavaScript/APIs
55:38 - Generating memes in Excel

Recommended resources

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