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 domain, site configuration, data, and projects...

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 software locally or leaving your 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 and use the materials. The team also wants to ask...

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 patterns for building app pages; if you are looking...

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, I'd like to introduce improvements to SharePoint...

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 in Debugging Remote Event Receivers with Visual...

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: Create a SharePoint-hosted app. Add a Business...

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: Publishing Apps for the Office Store ...

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 and APIs can help you solve them. Cross-domain, the...

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 2013, BCS goes one step further by enabling...

Kicking off SharePoint Conference 2012 this morning, Scott Guthrie, in his keynote speech , announced the release of Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 - Preview 2 . This is an exciting day for the Office & SharePoint Developer Tools team. Although still a preview, we are thrilled...

This blog post is brought to you by Humberto Lezama Guadarrama. Humberto is a Program Manager in the Office Developer Platform team. He is the PM of the apps licensing infrastructure for SharePoint 2013. In a previous post, Creating and verifying licensing in a paid app for Office , Krishnan explained...

This post is brought to you by the Office and SharePoint Product and Content Publishing Teams. One of the great things about the Office and SharePoint 2013 Preview is that it gives developers an early chance to play with the code and jumpstart developing apps and solutions. Some things have changed from...

I am Ayushi Garg, a tester on the SharePoint Developer Experience Team. In this blog post, I will walk you through how you can get started with consuming an OData service easily inside apps for SharePoint. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for querying and updating data that provides...

Hi, I'm Ricky Kirkham from the developer documentation team for SharePoint 2013. I'd like to let you all know how you can use the app manifest to specify which locales are supported by your app for SharePoint. You are required to specify supported locales, or your app will not be accepted by the SharePoint...

This week, we are super excited to kick off a new series of videos dedicated to apps for Office and SharePoint on Channel 9: Inside apps for Office and SharePoint . It’s a great opportunity to listen to our engineering leads talk about the new cloud app model for Office and SharePoint, and why...

Hi! My name is Ricardo Loo. I am a Programming Writer for SharePoint. In today's article we'll talk about how to use the JavaScript object model (JSOM) in a simple HTML page in your app for SharePoint. By using the JSOM, you can access data and functionality in SharePoint 2013. You can also use Representational...

This article is brought to you by Elisabeth Olson and Russell Palmer, Program Managers in Office and SharePoint. Apps are the new cool thing in Office and SharePoint, and we’re already seeing a lot of excitement around them. We want to make sure you get started in the right direction, so here...

I’m Jim Crowley, a senior programming writer who works on SharePoint developer documentation. My team has been working on a number of resources, articles, and samples aimed at introducing the SharePoint 2013 app model to a wide audience of developers, some of whom may be new to SharePoint, and all of...

This article is brought to you by Thomas Mechelke, Program Manager for SharePoint Developer Experience team. Thomas has been monitoring our new apps for Office and SharePoint forums and providing help on various topics. In today's post, Thomas will walk you through how to use a Windows Azure SQL Database...

Hi! My name is Jay Schmelzer and I’m the Director of Program Management for the Visual Studio BizApps team. My team delivers the Visual Studio tooling that enables developers to target the Office, SharePoint and Windows Azure platforms. With the release of the new Office , it’s an exciting...

Hi, my name is Vivek Narasimhan and with my colleagues David Mowatt and Humberto Lezama we are excited to take you behind the scenes to meet one of the best kept secrets in the next version of Office and SharePoint: the Office Store. This is an exciting time to be an Office or SharePoint developer! If...

This article is brought to you by Howard Crow, Principal Group Program Manager for SharePoint Developer Experience team. Thanks for reading us ! My name is Howard Crow, and I have been working on SharePoint since the beginning. I am now the Group Program Manager of the Developer Experience team. Today...

Hi, my name is Brian Jones and I'm the group program manager for the Office Solutions Framework team. I wanted to follow up on Ludo's blog post last week where he introduced the Office Store and the new Office cloud app model. I've been working on extensibility technologies in Office for the past 13...

Hello, my name is Ludovic Hauduc and I’m General Manager for the Office Platform and Store teams. It’s a really exciting time for us, as we announced yesterday the customer preview of the new Office. As you can see from the press release and the Office Next blog , we’re making deep...