This blog post describes how to create a custom WOPI host.  A WOPI host is document storage location that can connect to Office Web Apps Server to open Office documents in the browser.  When the WOPI host is configured to use Office Web Apps...

In my last post When should I choose to create a mail app versus an add-in for Outlook? , I provided some factors for you to consider if you’re trying to decide whether a mail app or add-in is more appropriate for your Outlook extension scenario...

In this blog post, I will describe the changes to the object model for displaying tracked changes and comments from Microsoft Word 2010 to Microsoft Word 2013 and I explain how to work with the new programmability features relating to tracked changes...

Some of you may or may not be aware that alongside with the legacy COM-based Office client object models, Office 2013 supports a new apps for Office developer platform. This blog post is intended to help new and existing Office developers understand the...

In this post, I'll introduce some of the new features of interest to developers in Visio 2013. Among these features are: New file format Robust updates to themes The change shape feature (that allows you to replace one shape with another while...

Mike Stowe, Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. Access 2013 features a new type of application model, Access apps, that’s makes it easy to create, customize, and deploy an app to the cloud. This post...

Hi, my name is Luke Nyswonger and I lead the developer content team for Office programmability. My team creates developer docs, code samples, and videos for client extensibility—apps for Office, VBA, Open XML, etc. In this version of Office, we...

New features for developers in Excel 2013 Preview Frank Rice, Senior Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. This post briefly describes some of the features available to developers in Excel 2013 Preview....

Project Standard 2013 and Project Professional 2013 include many new features for developers, such as new reports, task paths, cache status, and working with SharePoint tasks lists. This article shows VBA examples for new features in Project. You can...

Visio 2013 introduces a "Change Shape" feature that enables you to swap out a selected shape or group of shapes in the drawing with another type of shape. The new shapes can retain the position, connections, formatting, shape text, and/or shape data of...

Have you heard? There's an app contest going on and you're invited! App contest ? That's right! Vivek Narasimhan, Product Marketing Manager for Office and SharePoint, recently announced the app contest in the official Apps for Office and SharePoint...

Dan Battagin, Principal Program Manager on the Excel team, authored today's post. Recently on the Excel blog, the Excel team announced The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere . The button allows developers to bring the power of Excel to data on...

In this post, I’ll highlight some of the new features for developers in Word 2013 Preview. As Frank Rice mentioned in his recent post, What’s new in Office 2013 Preview for developers , the most exciting new feature in Office 2013 Preview...

Frank Rice, Senior Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. By this time, you have undoubtedly seen all the jazz and excitement surrounding the launch of Microsoft Office 2013 Preview. In this post, I want to...

Frank Rice, Senior Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. The Open XML SDK 2.5 CTP for Microsoft Office, a pre-release build of the next version of Open XML SDK 2.0, is now available for download! Most applications...