Visual Studio 2012 can’t localize host web features by itself. Learn about a tool that you can use to localize your host web features, such as app parts and custom actions. SharePoint is used in many countries, regions, and languages. Because of this, you may want to maximize your reach to potential...

My name is Xiaoying Guo, and I’m a program manager on the Microsoft Office Developer Tools team in Visual Studio. On June 3, I’m giving a talk on building apps for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2012. The talk is organized by the .NET Developers Association and will be held in Building 40 on the Microsoft...

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 against the new build to measure quality. Continuous...

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 by the new templates, along with tips for using...

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...

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...

Rolando has already given an overview of how apps for Office work , so today I'm going to drill into how apps for Office run within Outlook. Apps for Outlook, or "mail apps" as they are sometimes called in our developer documentation, are apps for Office that are optimized for running in Outlook against...

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 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...