I am trying to understand how to develop add-ins/macros in JS for Office, do I need VSTO for it or does it run from Office somewhere?
I did understood that Microsoft is making the first steps toward replacing VBa with JS and impemented an API to develop macros in Office.Js simmilar to the one Google has for it's Docs. But where can I find a development enviroment for Office.js?
The new web-based add-ins are basically a web application executed in the context of the Office application, either on the Desktop (by embedding a browser, IE11 at the moment) or in the browser (Office Online) where everything is web-based already.
The add-in can be hosted on any web resource you like. You just need to specify a source location URI.
Settings and metadata of the add-in are defined in a manifest file. The article Office Add-ins platform overview describes it very well.
Development can be done in any editor or IDE suitable for coding web apps. There is no Alt+F11 VBA IDE anymore, but you may try the Script Lab add-in, a Microsoft Garage project that allows you to try out some code directly in Office and share code snippets. It includes a great collection of sample code too.
The new WebApplications are hosted on a Webserver. You can develop Office Apps with Visual Studio.
Here is a good course for developing Office Apps including an overview of the Javascript Office API:
https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/introduction-to-office-365-development-8329
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I have a published/certified MS Outlook Add-In on the Microsoft Store:
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381281?src=office&tab=Overview
It shows Product Supported: OfficeProductForAndroid and OfficeProductForIOS. However, the Add-In only appears on IOS devices (as well as Desktop, OWA, etc).
How can I get support to know why the Add-in does not appear on Android devices?
PS - it does work by adding our XML staging manifest directly. And other public store Add-Ins are working.
In mobile(iOS and Android) add-in need to be whitelisted to show on Add-in Management Screen if it is not installed manually or not installed at all.
Whitelisting of Add-in is done by our team on request. I think franConnect has been whitelisted. Soon it will start coming on Addin Management Screen.
I have a VSTO Ms Outlook Addin which interacts with Contacts, Tasks, Meetings,Calender and Emails of Outlook and it works fine with Office 2007,2010,2013,2016.
Now, I would like to implement the same for "app for outlook".
How should I do that? Can anyone explain.
You can start by consulting this getting started.
As a former VSTO add-in dev, you have to rethink the way you design Office add-ins. A web add-in is no more than a web app using a library office.js to fill the bridge between your logic and the office host. Keep in mind that you still have the possibility to use web services to do things that are not available with office.js, see how here
I wrote a blog post explaining the differences from a technical and business perspective of these two generations of addins.
I want to generate word documents from my ASP.net MVC 6 website. I've implemented several ways to generate a document in a POC : DocX, NetOffice, OpenXml, COM Interop objects. I was seduced by it.
I made a Console App to test and it works.
But, with ASP.net MVC6, we can't reference Console App's or COM Assemblies.
We need to create "Console App (Package)".
How can I add COM Assemblies to my ASP.net MVC 6 website ?
Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
You can read more about that in the Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article.
Consider using third-party components designed for the server-side execution or if you deal with open XML documents you may use the Open XML SDK, see Welcome to the Open XML SDK 2.5 for Office for more information.
New project in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2013.
Want to add the "Microsoft Internet Controls" component but I can't find it.
What am I missing?
This is the second link on Google:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-customize/cant-find-reference-to-microsoft-internet-controls/e138ff0c-8046-47b1-9c0c-ac28cebe3c7a
Apparently it may have been renamed "Microsoft Browser Helpers" and you may need to add a reference to "ieframe.dll".
If you need FTP, it is fully supported in the .NET framework. You could start with the examples on MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229718%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
The inet1 Internet Transfer Control is installed with MS Office. Install it and you should have no problem having it become available to use in Visual Studio etc.
It's old but still completely useful in apps. It did all the FTP and HTTP calls for a web crawler I wrote years ago and was fast and completely error-free when crawling 100s of 1000s of web pages at a time while I slept. I'd use inet1 today if I was writing an app that did huge amounts of internet calls as quickly as possible.
Does a custom (i.e. one I've developed for SharePoint 2010) visual webpart have to operate within a sandbox solution in SharePoint office 365, or can it be a farm solution?
Thanks, Confused
Web parts have to be sandboxed for SharePoint 365. Visual web parts can't be sandboxed since the ascx control that comes with the web part is copied to the file system. if you need to create a visual web part in SharePoint 365 you can use the SharePoint Power Tools extension.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9
There you have the option to create a visual web part that can be deployed as a sandboxed solution.
Independent from the type of SP-I (SharePoint Item) you're creating, Office 365 only supports sandboxed solutions.
Microsoft is going to migrate Office 365 to SharePoint 2013 within the next weeks/months. When migration is done, you can also create Apps using the new SharePoint 2013 App model.
But for now, it's only possible to deploy Sandboxed solutions, because it's not allowed to do any changes to the filesystem or elements, that are available across the boundaries of your SiteCollection.
When it comes to WebPart development, you've to remember that it's not possible to impersonate using SPSecurity. (There are more limitations for Sandboxed Solutions, you should revisit the MSDN in order to get a common understanding of what you can do within the Sandbox)