‘Office 365 Development’ category archive
How Add-in Express supports Office 365 / Office 2019
Andrei Smolin | June 16th, 2020
You might already know that Office 365 and Office 2019 are, in fact, subsequent builds of Office 2016: in any Office 365 and Office 2019 application, the Application.Version property returns a string that starts with "16"... Read the rest of this entry →
How to solve synchronization conflict when modifying Outlook item in ItemAdd event
Andrei Smolin | February 26th, 2020
I see this issue in the Sent Items folder on an Exchange account having Cached Exchange Mode turned on. Reportedly, turning the Cached Mode off solves the issue. The Outlook version used (Outlook 365 in my case) seems to be irrelevant as Google reports a similar conflict to occur in Outlook 2007... Read the rest of this entry →
The Office 365 API – OneDrive / Files API
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 31st, 2015
The article demonstrates how to create an Outlook add-in that integrates with OneDrive for Business and gives your users the ability to attach a file to an email directly from OneDrive... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 API – Querying Exchange
Pieter van der Westhuizen | July 13th, 2015
Today, we'll investigate how to retrieve data such as contacts, calendar entries and e-mails from Exchange. We'll create a simple Excel add-in, using our favourite Office development toolset, Add-in Express for Office and .net, which will import Exchange e-mails, contacts and calendar events into the active Excel workbook... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 365 API – Authentication & Setup
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 9th, 2015
In our last article, we took a 10,000 foot view of what Office 365 has to offer. The article also made note of the Office 365 API, which enables developers to integrate with and use their users' Office 365 data... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook Online & Google Mail for developers – What’s the difference?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 17th, 2014
We've previously explored the different options for developing gadgets for Gmail as well as what options are available to developers to create apps that run on both the desktop and web editions of Microsoft Office. The two platforms are very different and offer varying degrees of customizations... Read the rest of this entry →
Excel Online & Google Sheets for developers – what’s the difference?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 20th, 2014
In the last few weeks we've covered a lot of aspects of both Google Sheets and Excel Online and we've seen that both platforms offer developers various options to customize and integrate with. In this article we'll evaluate what we've learned so far about Google Sheets and Excel Online and compare the two platforms and what it means for developers
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Creating Apps for Microsoft Outlook
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 12th, 2014
In today's article we'll build a similar app for Outlook for the gadget we've build in my last post. Our app will use the subject line of an e-mail to check for search results on the Add-in Express forums and blogs besides we'll also provide our user with the option to perform a manual search... Read the rest of this entry →
Google add-ons vs Microsoft Office Apps: Read/Write tests
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 10th, 2014
We've been spending a lot of time with the Office/Productivity offerings from Google (Google Drive/Docs/Sheets) and Microsoft (Office 365, SharePoint, Word, Excel) and both of these two platforms have some drawbacks, but also some redeeming factors... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create Excel Apps for Office 365
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 2nd, 2014
About a week ago we explored the aspects of extending Google Spreadsheets by creating Apps scripts. In that example, we created a sidebar and custom menus with which the user could specify the orientation their current selection could be changed to. In today's article, we'll attempt the same functionality, but this time using the Napa development tools for Office 365.
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How to create Word Apps for Office 365
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 28th, 2014
We thought that after we investigated how to create customization for Google Docs and Google Sheets, it is about time we tackle the Napa Office 365 development tools again. We'll create a Task Pane app for Microsoft Word, similar to the one we created for Google Docs that will allow the user to shuffle either the selected words, sentences or paragraphs in a Microsoft Word document... Read the rest of this entry →
Apps for Office revisited
Ty Anderson | January 24th, 2014
If you have been reading this blog, (I hope) you read the post I wrote proclaiming the Office App Store dead-on-arrival (DOA). I want to revisit this topic to see how well my thoughts of nearly a year ago stood-up... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Office for iOS is here… the rumors are true
Ty Anderson | June 20th, 2013
Office Mobile for iPhone is now available for Office 365 subscribers. The fact is that Office for iOS only supports the iPhone. Microsoft if fighting a multi-front war. They can’t simply release Office for iOS and have it support both the iPhone and the iPad. If they did that it would kill the Surface tablet ... Read the rest of this entry →
Office 2013 is for sale; Office App Store already dead; COM Add-ins alive and well
Ty Anderson | March 4th, 2013
As you know, Office 2013 is now available for purchase. Like all editions before it, Office 2013 is, "the best Office yet". If it weren't, I sure hope MSFT wouldn't release it. I don't think, "This version is quite as good as the last version" works as a tagline... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire: Microsoft, burn the boats already!
Ty Anderson | February 14th, 2013
Microsoft find themselves in an entirely new and foreign landscape. The successes of their past will not help them here. The demands are new. The language is different. People here do not work as they do in the old country of their past. Microsoft must find it within themselves to match wits with their enemies and succeed... Read the rest of this entry →
Office Newswire :: Microsoft Releases Office 2013
Ty Anderson | February 1st, 2013
Three days ago, Microsoft surprised us all by releasing Office 2013. I wasn't expecting it to happen until March. Maybe Office for iOS will arrive in March instead. Who knows?! That's why this is fun to watch... Read the rest of this entry →