Introduction
Microsoft Office clients enable developers to create add-ins that extend Microsoft Outlook with custom functionality. Through a JavaScript API, developers can access and edit the contents in an email or calendar event in Outlook from an app running in the client.
In this module, you'll learn how to build an Outlook add-in that will render buttons in the compose message window, implement a button that invokes a function, and implement a task pane that inserts content into the body of a message.
Prerequisites
- Experience using Microsoft Outlook
- Experience developing web applications
- Experience developing web applications with JavaScript and TypeScript
- Experience using Visual Studio Code at the intermediate level
Learning objectives
- Create an Outlook add-in that uses the Outlook JavaScript API to manipulate a document
- Demonstrate how to access and edit content in an email
- Explain how to deploy and host a custom add-in for Microsoft Outlook
Additional resources
Refer to the following repository for extra resources associated with this module. This repository includes completed code samples from the exercise units found in this module: Build add-ins for Microsoft Outlook.
This module is also available as a screencast: Build add-ins for Microsoft Outlook