When your team is collaborating on a project, you need a regular and reliable development process to ensure smooth delivery while maintaining high quality. This process typically includes frequent integrations from team members, regular builds, and testing...

In an organization or enterprise setting, you frequently get included in emails with unfamiliar people. If your organization uses Active Directory, Exchange Server 2013, and Outlook 2013, you can now use the Who's Who AD mail app to conveniently display...

On February 27, we reached the General Availability date for Office 365, and the preview period ended. Here’s the good news: we’re now giving you the option to convert your preview subscription to a paid subscription. When you do, we’ll keep your present...

The "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools that you can install to your Office 365 Developer Site provide an ideal way to get started developing apps for Office and SharePoint: a browser-based authoring tool that lets you develop apps without installing...

Mail apps can now use a new set of properties and methods in the JavaScript API for Office and Exchange Web Services callback tokens to get the attachments of a message or appointment in an Exchange mailbox. A mail app can use the JavaScript API for Office...

The Microsoft Office Content Publishing group has published more than 125 code samples for apps for Office and SharePoint, and new samples are added regularly. The code samples are now available as two sample packs to make it easier for you to download...

In last month's release of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, the app for Office project templates were redesigned―adding better styling, better structure, and better code to newly-created projects. This post will highlight the benefits offered...

When building your app, there are a few patterns we hope you will use for your pages. In choosing a pattern, you should consider the user scenarios for your app and which pattern would make the most sense. Be aware that this post focuses on the design...

This post walks through a published app for Office, along the way showing you everything you need to get started building your own app for Office that uses a data service from the Windows Azure Marketplace. Today’s post is brought to you by Moinak...

The official release of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 ( download ) is packed with great features for Office and SharePoint developers to quickly and efficiently create first class apps and solutions for Office 2013 and 2010. In this post...

Learn about the new tools for debugging remote event receivers in the RTM version of the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. In “Preview 2” of the Office Developer Tools that we released last October, we enabled remote event debugging, as detailed...

Providing a good user experience is a joint effort of the underlying app for Office platform and the individual app. If you’re creating a mail app for Outlook, there are some safeguards that help guarantee satisfactory baseline response time for mail...

Today's post is brought to you by Daniel Ferry. Daniel is a Microsoft Excel MVP.  He runs the Excel Hero blog and the Excel Hero Academy where students learn advanced Excel techniques.  He can be followed @excelhero or you can interact with...

In this blog post, learn how to retrieve updated information for a Duet workflow task from SAP and customize the workflow item page to show the information in an app for SharePoint. The following are the high-level tasks required to accomplish our scenario...

Hello Office and SharePoint developers! You may have read Somasegar’s announcement yesterday that the Visual Studio 2012 tools have been released.  You can download the latest version of the tools here .  The new tools replace the “Preview 2...

We’re excited to provide a new forum as an additional resource specifically for our Office Store app providers. Use this new forum on MSDN to connect with the Office Store team and community on creating your seller profile and submitting apps...

In this post, we’ll discuss JavaScript closures and how misunderstanding them can lead to seemingly unexpected behavior in some JavaScript API for Office methods. Along the way, we’ll establish some best practices for how to make multiple asynchronous...

The new “0-60” developer experience allows you to start developing apps for Office and SharePoint in minutes instead of days.This new developer experience begins in your Office 365 developer site, so read on to learn some tips to get the most...

Editor’s update (3/21/2013) : The RTM version of the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 include tools for debugging remote event receivers. You no longer have to follow the procedure described in this post. Chakkaradeep just published a post...

This post is brought to you by Matt Swann, Senior Security Engineer on the SharePoint security team, and Humberto Lezama-Guadarrama, Program Manager on the Office Developer Platform team. When you build apps for SharePoint 2013 (or even classic solutions...

Hello there, I'm Humberto Lezama-Guadarrama, Program Manager on the Office Developer Platform team. In this post I will analyze some of the challenges that developers will likely face when building apps for SharePoint and how our cross-domain library...

Introduction to BCS events Until SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) was all about “pull,” that is, users needed to “refresh” the data from a SharePoint site in order to fetch the latest data records from the external system. With SharePoint...

Building apps for PowerPoint! Hello app for Office developers! This is Juan Balmori with another post for the apps for Office! I have to tell you that every time I have presented a session for a technical (or not so technical) audience about apps for...

Hello apps for Office developers! This is Juan Balmori, PM of the JavaScript API for Office (aka Office.js). On this my first blog post I want to share with you a more detailed follow up to one of the changes mentioned on Ricardo’s “ Important Developer...

Hello Developers! This is Juan Balmori with another post for the apps for Office blog! I am the Program Manager of the JavaScript API for Office (Office.js). I am excited to share with you top 10 scenarios for the JavaScript API for Office. It’s great...