This post continues the deep dive into developing Apps for Office by demonstrating how to create a Content App that runs in Microsoft Excel. The app we build today demonstrates how to work with the Office API within Microsoft Excel to accomplish tasks such as creating tables, binding to selections, and communicating between the document […]
Month: November 2014
We continue our journey through Apps for Office by building a real-world Task Pane App. We’ll look at using some of the more useful features of the Office API as well as review some gotchas to keep in mind while developing Task Pane Apps.. For this demo we’ll create an app called Reuser. This app […]
This post is part of a series on developing Apps for Office 2013. Before we dive into creating the various Apps for Office examples, we should briefly review how you can use Visual Studio and your browser tools to debug issues and errors in your apps. Debugging Code: Just Hit F5 Visual Studio extends its […]
This is the second post in an ongoing series on posts about Apps for Office. Today we’ll look at the requirements and tools needed to get started developing, as well as a “Hello, World!” example. Prerequisites To develop Apps for Office you need at least the following: You also of course need to have the […]
With over a billion users worldwide, Microsoft Office is already a premier platform for productivity, and with the release of Apps for Office, developers have a powerful new resource for extending and enhancing the suite of apps to solve new problems. In this series of blog posts, we’ll see how the Apps for Office platform […]
Leveraging HTML and JavaScript, Microsoft has introduced a new app model for developing with and extending Office 2013, known as Apps for Office. This platform allows developers to create powerful and interactive features to enhance the Office experience. At Falafel Software, we’ve used this new platform to deliver two exciting new apps to our EventBoard […]