New Office App Templates: Outlook Task Pane and PowerPoint Apps
Last week SP1 for the Office 2013 product line up was released (more info). Included in the service pack was improvements to the Office App model. Highlighting a few of the new features: PowerPoint...
View ArticleImprove Productivity with Office Apps – Building a Outlook App in two Hours
The 2013 wave of Microsoft products introduced a brand new app concept that received a lot of attention during the launch. Now more than a year later it might be time to look back at how the app model...
View ArticlePublishing Office Apps to the Office Store, Firsthand Experience
So, you finished building that beautiful Office app of yours, and now you want to share it with the world? No problem you think I just go to the Office store and publish it, how hard can it be? From my...
View ArticleCreating an Outlook Appointment with the JavaScript API for Office Apps
A very likely feature request of any Outlook app would be automatic creation of calendar items, e.g. appointments. Unfortunately the MSDN documentation does not exactly specify how you do that, but it...
View ArticleUsing the Office 365 Odata API for accessing Exchange data from a MVC...
The Office 365 product suite (SharePoint, Exchange, Onedrive and the Office package), is moving in an interesting direction. Instead of being products, it starting to become more of a service platform...
View ArticleOneDrive Business for Outlook an Outlook App
As I have mentioned before I really like the app concept introduced with Office 2013. Today I’m going to show my latest creation which is a Mail App for Outlook that lets you access files in your...
View ArticleOffice 365 API Tools August 2014 Update and RedirectRequiredException
It’s really nice to see the cadence Microsoft is getting up to with their release cycle. Yesterday a new version of the Office 365 API Tools (1.1.728) was release that improves on the previous releases...
View ArticleHow to detect if an App for Office is opened from Office
Apps for Office whether it is for Outlook, Excel, Word or PowerPoint are all standard HTML pages with JavaScript. I just finished building an app where I wanted some of my app pages to be accessible...
View ArticleDissecting the Office 365 App Launcher to Add Your Own Links
The Office 365 App Launcher was introduced in October 2014, with the idea of making it easier for people to navigate to the app they use most. Only problem, it only support links to Azure AD Apps and...
View ArticleTesting WebHooks Locally with a Reverse Proxy
I have been testing out the new Microsoft Graph Subscriptions API that allows you to get notified when, e.g. mails are received in Exchange online. To use this API you have to setup a webhook that gets...
View ArticleOneClick Deploy Office Outlook Addins from a Web Page
When building Office Outlook Addins there has traditionally been three ways to install them. Installation from the Office Store Installation by a Exchange administrator uploading the manifest.xml...
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