This month's agenda included: *New Add-in Developer Tools *Edge WebView2 *Office Scripts with Power Automate

1. Microsoft Office Add-ins
New Developer Tools, Runtime, and
Automation Options
Community call
June 10, 2020
Alex Jerabek, Courtney Owen,
Sudheer Maremanda, Daniel Wilson

2.  New Add-in Developer Tools
 Edge WebView2
 Office Scripts with Power Automate
 Q&A
Sudheer Maremanda
Principal Program Manager
Daniel Wilson
Program Manager
Alex Jerabek
Senior Dev Writer Senior Software Engineer
Courtney Owen

3. New Add-in Developer Tools
Script Lab for Outlook and the VS Code Debugger Extension
Courtney Owen, Senior Software Engineer

4. New Office Add-in Developer Tools
Script Lab for Outlook
Explore Office.JS APIs in Outlook without having
to set up a full environment!
Try Script Lab Now!
F5 Debugging in VS Code
Use F5 to debug your Office Add-in against the
Edge runtime in Windows.
Download the VS Code extension

5. Edge WebView2
New Chromium-based web runtime for Office add-ins
Sudheer Maremanda, Principal Program Manager

6. Web runtimes [a quick history]
• Default browser control
on Windows 7 / 8 / 10
[until 1902]
• Still seeing a number of
users launching IE
runtime
• Default browser control
on Office 365 version
16.0.11629 and
Windows 10 version
1903
• Will be shipped for all
versions of Windows
• Default control for
Office add-ins [where
available]

7. WebView2
Available for both Win32 & UWP
Always up-to-date [default
Based on Microsoft Edge (Chromium)
Consistent across supported Windows versions

8. Call to Action
• Starting with the May fork of Office 16.0.13001.*, Office will start using Edge
Webview2 as the default runtime for add-ins in Insiders Fast
• You will need to be a part of Office Insiders to get one of these builds [join here]
• Install Edge [browser] – Dev or Canary channel [from here]
• Test / validate your add-in using Webview2
• Debugging
• Right click  Debug
• Visual Studio [v. 16.6+ from visualstudio.microsoft.com]
• Let us know on GitHub [Area: Edge WebView2]

9. Office Scripts with Power Automate
Daniel Wilson, Program Manager

10. Office Scripts’
Mission
Empower Office Users to easily
automate tasks and to run their
businesses efficiently anytime,
anywhere.

11. Programmability in Office today
VBA Office Scripts
COM add-ins Office web add-ins
End-user Approachable
Web and
Collaboration
Developer Audience
Desktop
and Individual
Share scripts with other
users in the same tenant
New features coming soon

12. Office Scripts with Power Automate
• Accomplish more with Excel—even away from the keyboard
• Easily automate complex and intricate processes
• Interface with data outside the spreadsheet

13. Office Scripts with Power Automate
QUICK LOOK
• Over 300 connectors and
counting
• Dozens of different trigger
types—even run Office Scripts
from your phone
• Accept parameters and return
data
• Perform any Excel operation
supported by Office Scripts

14. Office Scripts with Power Automate
DEMO

15. Q&A

16. Engage with us!
Are you interested in...
* Presenting during an upcoming call?
* Providing feedback about the docs?
aka.ms/office-add-ins-engage

17. New to Office Add-ins?
• Visit aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs
• Extend Office across all platforms.
• Add the power of web services to
Excel, Word, Outlook, add other
Office hosts.
• Get started in 5-minutes.
• Explore the Office JavaScript APIs
with Script Lab.
• Looking to automate Excel tasks?
Check out Office Scripts:
aka.ms/office-scripts-docs

18. Learn
Engage
Developer resources
What Where
Microsoft 365 Developer Program https://aka.ms/M365devprogram
Script Lab https://aka.ms/getscriptlab
Office Add-ins documentation https://aka.ms/office-add-ins-docs
Custom Functions https://aka.ms/customfunctions
What Where
Stack Overflow (questions) https://stackoverflow.com
office-js
outlook-web-addins
office-scripts
GitHub (issues) https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js
UserVoice (feature requests) https://officespdev.uservoice.com
Send a Smile or Frown Inside Office

19. Microsoft 365
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https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
https://aka.ms/spdev-call
https://aka.ms/spdev-sig-call
https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
https://aka.ms/M365DevCalls

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