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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We started this blog with a couple of posts that introduced the new Office cloud app model and the principles behind it: web standards, simplicity, security and performance, consistency, and flexibility to developers. Brian Jones already talked about...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, my name is Hila Shemer and I'm a Program Manager on the Office Solutions Framework team. In the past few weeks, we've posted several articles presenting the new apps for Office platform (you should definitely check out Brian's post and Rolando...

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...

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...

Earlier this week we opened the doors to the Office Store . Today, we are announcing the launch of our developer contest to select the best apps for Office and SharePoint. There are big prizes to be won—from a $10,000 grand prize to Xbox + Kinect...

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...

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...

I’m David Mowatt, a program manager on the Office Store team. By now, you’ve probably read that we’re offering great opportunities to reach millions of users inside their Office experience. You’ll either have an existing service...

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...

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...

Today, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Office Division, announced that engineering work on the new Office and SharePoint is complete. This is great news for all developers because it truly gives you an opportunity to be on...

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...