Developing apps for SAP Gateway for Microsoft
Topic Last Modified: 2015-06-04
Summary: Learn about developing apps for SAP Gateway for Microsoft.
SAP Gateway for Microsoft is designed to support the Microsoft app models. You don’t need to know SAP systems to create apps that can access SAP data via SAP Gateway for Microsoft.
To get you off to a quick start, we’ve created the following articles that step you through the process of creating different types of apps for SAP Gateway for Microsoft:
What’s included in the how-to articles?
Each of these how-to articles provides:
Detailed information about the prerequisite software and knowledge that’s required to create that particular type of app.
Because SAP Gateway for Microsoft is hosted in Microsoft Azure, the how-to articles also provide an overview of how OAuth 2.0 works in Azure Active Directory.
Links to a code sample. If you just want to play with a pre-built app, you can download the code sample that matches the how-to article. Each how-to article provides a link to a related code sample. A readme file is provided with the code sample that tells you how to configure it to run in your own SAP Gateway for Microsoft deployment.
One of the nice things about developing Microsoft apps is that Visual Studio provides templates for several different types of apps. The how-to articles use these templates, which help you get you off to a fast start with creating your own apps.