This year Microsoft has made significant developer investments in SharePoint and bots, with new developer surfaces in the all-new SharePoint Framework and Bot Framework (respectively). Combining these technologies can deliver some very powerful scenarios. In fact, SharePoint PnP has a sample on embedding a bot into SharePoint. The sample does a good job of explaining…
Yesterday, the AngularJS Team announced the official beta release of Angular 2. The beta milestone is a significant achievement that should motivate developers to give Angular 2 a serious consideration for new web/mobile projects. Besides getting ready for primetime, Angular 2 offers some significant improvements over Angular 1 (just read here). In this post, I’ll…
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of file handler add-ins for Office 365. This add-in type enables Office 365 customers to implement custom icons, previews and editors for specific file extensions in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Outlook Web App (OWA). In this post, I’ll outline a solution for creating a file handler add-in…
Earlier today I authored a post on the new Azure AD v2 app model that converges the developer experience across consumer and commercial applications. The post outlines the key differences in the v2 app model and illustrates how to perform a manual OAuth flow with it. Most developers won’t have to perform this manual flow,…
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new application model that offers a unified developer experience across Microsoft consumer and commercial services. This is so significant it is being called the “V2” application model. Why is it so significant? Now a single application definition and OAuth flow can be used for consumer services (ex:…
Earlier in the year, I authored a post on Connecting to SharePoint from an Office add-in. In that post, I illustrated 5 approaches that were largely specific to SharePoint. However, the last pattern connected to SharePoint using the Office 365 APIs. SharePoint is one of many powerful services exposed through the Office 365 APIs. In…
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably heard that Microsoft released Windows 10 last week. For app developers, Windows 10 and the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) realizes a vision of write-once run on any Windows device (desktop, tablet, mobile). In this post, I’ll illustrate how to build a Windows 10 UWP…
This week at //build, Microsoft made a number of exciting announcements regarding Office 365 development. If you haven’t had a chance, I highly encourage you to watch the foundational keynote that Jeremy Thake and Rob Lefferts delivered on the opening day…it was epic. In the months leading up to //build, I had the pleasure of…
Apps for Office are a powerful and flexible way to extend Office across all the new Office form factors (browser, PC, phone). Apps for Office come in many sizes/shapes (Mail Apps, Compose Apps, Task Pane Apps, Content Apps). Although users can resize apps for Office, they will typically launch in a default dimension that developers…
Over past few months I’ve traveled the world talking to developers about building applications with Office 365. One of my favorite topics is building apps with Bootstrap and AngularJS. I like this topic because it illustrates the “new” Microsoft and our commitment to open source technologies. Bootstrap and AngularJS are wildly popular frameworks and we…
