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...

Hi! I'm Gareth Pinto, a Program Manager on the Office Solutions Framework team working on the new apps for Office platform. You've heard a lot about our new platform goals, vision, architecture, and strategy from previous posts, and I hope it's inspired...

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...

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'm Krishnan Raghupathi, a Program Manager on the Office Store team. If you've read David's earlier post on choosing the right business model for your app for Office or SharePoint , and decided to charge users for your app, using our licensing service...

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...

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...

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...

Do you want to learn how to build apps for Office and SharePoint and get your apps into the office.com Store ? If you do, this workshop is for you! Six, 1-day offerings of the Building apps for Office and SharePoint workshop are coming to three cities...

Medal Tracker is a new template in Excel that uses three apps for Office to quickly find and visualize information on Olympic medals. To try it for yourself, download Office 2013 Preview , open Excel, and choose Medal Tracker from the list of templates...

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...

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...

Want to keep up with all of the excitement surrounding the Presidential Election Race? Check out the Election Tracker app for Excel. The Election Tracker app automatically updates with the latest polling data and predictions for both the Presidential...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Post Update: I got a few requests to modify the code in my previous blog post to enable SSO (single sign on). Basically allowing a user to view SPO content from a Windows Store App by using his/her corporate credentials or, even better, using integrated...

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...

My name is Keenan Newton, and I am the developer audience owner for SharePoint Conference 2012 . SPC is right around the corner, and I’m super excited about it. We have a lot of great content that will be presented this year. With the launch of...

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...

Brian Jones, the GPM for the apps platform and an author on the blog , will be doing a live interview on Channel9 today! As part of the interview, he will answer questions posted by viewers on the site. Watch the interview and ask Brian questions @ 5PM...

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...

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...

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...