using office add ins to solve business problems-sharepoint saturday redmond 2015
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Using Office Add-ins to
Solve Business Problems Ryan Schouten
@shrpntknight
SharePoint Saturday Redmond, October 24th, 2015
Ryan Schouten
Worked with SharePoint for 8 years
I have experience with SharePoint 2003 – 2013
I have worked with ASP.Net for 14 years
MCPD, MCT, MCSE: SharePoint, MCSA: Office 365
Contact Information
@shrpntknight
http://www.sharepointknight.com
• Office365 Implementations
• Custom SharePoint Development
• Responsive Design
• Intranet Design/Implementations
Options For Adding Functionality to
Office
VBA
Macros
VSTO Released with Office 2003
Office Interop
Apps for Office(Office Add-ins)
Why do we need this change?
Previous Solutions Don’t Work Well in the Web
Web Versions of Office Products
Outlook
Word
Excel
Mobile Devices
iPad
Surface
Android
Windows Phone
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than 150 million times on iPhones,
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What is an Add-in
An Add-In is a Web Page Loaded into
Office
Can use any web technology you desire.
jQuery
AngularJS
NodeJS
PHP
ASP.Net MVC
…
Can host wherever you need.
Types of Office Add-ins
Task Pane
Content
Task Pane
Task pane add-ins work side-by-side with an Office document, and let you supply
contextual information and functionality to enhance the document viewing and
authoring experience. For example, a task pane add-in can look up and retrieve
product information from a web service based on the product name or part number
selected in the document.
Content
Content add-ins integrate web-based features as content that shown in line with the
body of a document. Content add-ins let you integrate rich, web-based data
visualizations, embedded media (such as a YouTube video player or a picture gallery),
as well as other external content.
Mail add-ins display next to an Outlook item when you're viewing or
composing it.
Can work with an email message, meeting request, meeting response,
meeting cancellation, or appointment in a read scenario
Support
Office application Content add-ins Mail add-ins Task pane add-ins
Access web apps
Excel 2013 or later
Excel Online
Outlook 2013 or later
Outlook for Mac
Outlook Web App
OWA for Devices
PowerPoint 2013 or
later
PowerPoint Online
Project 2013 or later
Word 2013 or later
Word Online
Creating Our First Office Add-In
Needed Tools
Visual Studio
Napa Tools
Web Site for Hosting Web Pages
Plan You Add-in
Decide on the purpose of the add-in.
Identify the data and data source for the add-in
Identify the type of add-in and Office host applications that best support the
purpose of the add-in.
Design and implement the user experience and user interface for the add-in.
Create your manifest
Install and test
Let’s Do It
Deploying You App
Type Office StoreCorporate add-
in catalog
Shared folder
add-in catalog
Exchange
server
Task pane add-in x x x
Content add-in x x x
Mail add-in x x
Let’s Publish Our App
Resources
Office UI Fabric
http://officeuifabric.com/
Office Add-in JavaScript API Documentation
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142185.aspx
Office Dev Center
http://dev.office.com/
Questions
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