Posts Tagged ‘Apps for Office’
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 →
Office 365 for developers – What, How, Where?
Pieter van der Westhuizen | June 2nd, 2015
Office 365 is said to be the most strategic developer surface area for Microsoft in the near future. So, let's take a quick look at what Office 365 has to offer from the developer's perspective... 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 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 →
Developing a Word Task Pane App
Ty Anderson | December 19th, 2012
Today's sample will integrate with the Microsoft Translator API. The app will allow you to select text within Word, translate the text, and view the translation results. This type of task pane is not the same animal we know and love as Office developers. This type of is the kind a web developer-type would love... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create an Excel Content Pane App
Ty Anderson | December 7th, 2012
Last we spoke, I was dealing with the limitations of the Apps for Office development model. This time, I played it straight and didn't try to exceed its limits. I thought life would be simple. I'd find a decent API to use for pulling in some data to Excel via a Content App. Simple right? ... Read the rest of this entry →
How to develop an Excel Task Pane App
Ty Anderson | November 22nd, 2012
Instead of an article, this is more like a memoir... "Ty Anderson: An Apps for Office developer memoir". The new Apps for Office development model provides plenty of new possibilities for Microsoft Office developers. Although new, they give the appearance of familiarity. Do you think I'm crazy?
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Creating an Outlook Mail App in Visual Studio 2012
Ty Anderson | November 2nd, 2012
It's time to stop messing around and take the Office web app model for a spin. In this article, I'll show you how to create a simple but useful Outlook Mail App that lets you attach notes to mail items... Read the rest of this entry →
Radical redesign of Access 2013 and what it means for Office developers
Ty Anderson | October 5th, 2012
Access changed my life. Ever since I picked up a copy of the Access 97 Developer’s Reference, I have been enamored by Microsoft Office Access and how it can be utilized to build solutions. The first application I ever wrote was in Access 97…for a shipping company. It scanned shipping manifests. They loved it. I loved it... Read the rest of this entry →