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Cross-site publishing alternatives in SharePoint Online/Office 365
Cross-site publishing is one of the powerful new capabilities in SharePoint 2013. It enables the separation of data entry from display and breaks down the container barriers that have traditionally...
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Developing Apps against the Office Graph - Part 1
Last week, Microsoft started rolling out Delve to Office 365 customers. Delve is a cool new way to discover relevant information and connections across your work life. As cool as Delve is, I’m even...
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Developing Apps against the Office Graph – Part 2
Earlier this week I authored a blog post on Developing Apps against the Office Graph. In the post, I used static Graph Query Language (GQL) to display Office Graph results in a visualization different...
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Building Apps with the new Power BI APIs
Last month, Microsoft unveiled the new and improved Power BI, a cloud-based business analytics service for non-technical business users. The new Power BI is available for preview in the US. It has...
View ArticleUsing SignalR to communicate between an App for Office and Popups
Apps for Office are a powerful and flexible way to extend Office across all the new Office form factors (browser, PC, phone). Apps for Office come in many sizes/shapes (Mail Apps, Compose Apps, Task...
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Next Generation Office 365 Development with APIs and Add-ins
This week at //build, Microsoft made a number of exciting announcements regarding Office 365 development. If you haven’t had a chance, I highly encourage you to watch the foundational keynote that...
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Performing app-only operations on SharePoint Online through Azure AD
As all the shock and aw announcements were made this week at //build, Microsoft quietly turned on the ability to make app-only calls into SharePoint Online using Azure AD. The enables a whole new...
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Connecting to Office 365 APIs from a Windows 10 UWP
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably heard that Microsoft released Windows 10 last week. For app developers, Windows 10 and the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) realizes a vision...
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Connecting to Office 365 from an Office Add-in
Earlier in the year, I authored a post on Connecting to SharePoint from an Office add-in. In that post, I illustrated 5 approaches that were largely specific to SharePoint. However, the last pattern...
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Working with the converged Azure AD v2 app model
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new application model that offers a unified developer experience across Microsoft consumer and commercial services. This is so significant it is...
View ArticleBuilding Office 365 Applications with Node.js and the Azure AD v2 app model
Earlier today I authored a post on the new Azure AD v2 app model that converges the developer experience across consumer and commercial applications. The post outlines the key differences in the v2 app...
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Building File Handler Add-ins for Office 365
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of file handler add-ins for Office 365. This add-in type enables Office 365 customers to implement custom icons, previews and editors for specific...
View ArticleAngular 2.0 and the Microsoft Graph
Yesterday, the AngularJS Team announced the official beta release of Angular 2. The beta milestone is a significant achievement that should motivate developers to give Angular 2 a serious consideration...
View ArticleUsing OneDrive and Excel APIs in the Microsoft Graph for App Storage
The Microsoft Graph is constantly evolving with new and powerful endpoints. If you want a glimpse into current engineering investments and future of the Graph, take a look at the latest developments on...
View ArticleAdding Office 365 Connectors from a Mobile App
Office 365 Connectors are a powerful way to aggregate group information and content into one place (regardless of the source). Third parties can use connectors to send useful information and content...
View ArticleDelivering Better Applications through Microsoft Teams
When Microsoft announced the public preview of Microsoft Teams, I think they unveiled the future of Microsoft productivity. It provides a single canvas that aggregates relevant information and tools...
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Microsoft Teams and Custom Tab Theme
Custom tabs are an extensibility component in Microsoft Teams that allows developers to embed web content within a team channel. Tab content is effectively loaded in an IFRAME to ensure the appropriate...
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Microsoft Teams and OAuth in Custom Tab
Custom Tabs provide developers with canvas to integrate their own user interface into Microsoft Teams. Developers have a lot of flexibility in what they load in the tab, but source domain(s) must be...
View ArticleSharePoint Framework and Contextual Bots via Back Channel
This year Microsoft has made significant developer investments in SharePoint and bots, with new developer surfaces in the all-new SharePoint Framework and Bot Framework (respectively). Combining these...
View ArticleOffice Add-ins with Contextual Bots via Back Channel
Last week I published a post on using the SharePoint Framework to embed contextual bots in SharePoint. In it, I described how the same approach could be used to embed a contextual bot in an Office...
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