Op de BIWUG van 17 november, dit maal gehost en georganiseerd door Tobania, nam onze eigenste Peter Plessers deel als gastspreker omtrent het onderwerp Office Add-in Development. In deze sessie bood Peter het talrijke publiek een overzicht van de mogelijkheden en aangebrachte verbeteringen van Office 2016 aan de hand van een aantal verhelderende demo’s en ervaringen uit recent gebruik ervan.

1. Office Add-Ins

2. Special thanks to our sponsors

3. About me
Peter Plessers - peter.plessers@spikes.be
SharePoint Architect at Spikes
http://www.spikes.be
Co-founder of Tasks in a Box
http://tasksinabox.com

4. Agenda
ž What are my options?
ž Office Add-Ins
ž Task Add-Ins
ž Content Add-Ins
ž Command Add-Ins
ž Mail Add-Ins
ž Office UI Fabric
ž Lessons learned the hard way

5. Visual Basic for Applications
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Office Add-Ins

9. Office Add-Ins VSTO VBA
Automations & Interaction with host computer a a
User Interface Customizations Partial a Partial
Interaction with Office APIs Partial a a
Offline Availability (HTML 5 capabilities) a a
Support for team development + source control a a
Run code at application-level a a
Sandboxed environment a
Compatibility Office 2013+
(Windows & Mac*)
Office Online
Mobile
Office 2007+
(Windows)
Office 2000+
(Windows & Mac*)
Applications Outlook
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Project
Office Mix
Access Web Apps
Outlook
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Project
Visio
InfoPath
Outlook
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Access

11. Types of Office Add-ins

12. Where available?

13. Manifest + webpage = an app for Office

15. Task Pane App User Experience
ž Familiar User Experience
ž Leverages familiar Office UI paradigm
ž Reference Information
ž Ideal for providing reference information associated with document.

19. Everything you need to easily create and
share interactive online videos

24. Appear in messages and
appointments
Read & Compose Mode
Contextual to current item
Distributed by Exchange

25. Contextual Activation Rules

26. Extracted Entities
Entity Type Text Detected
Address US postal addresses
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052
EmailAddress Any SMTP address
MeetingSuggestion A reference to an event or meeting
Let’s meet next Tuesday for lunch.
Contact A personal name related to other entities
Randy Byrne, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052
PhoneNumber US telephone numbers
(555) 867-5309
TaskSuggestion Actionable sentences in an email
Please install office 2013 on my computer.
Url A filename or web address

28. Get subject of selected mail
Office.context.mailbox.item.subject J
Get attachments of selected mail
Office.context.mailbox.item.attachments L
Accessing Mail Properties

29. In Add-In:
1. Get a callback token from Exchange server
2. Call custom web service passing callback token + email id
In custom web service:
1. Authenticate to Exchange server with callback token
2. Call EWS to get attachments for email
3. Return result
Get Attachments

31. • Get the same look & feel of native Office applications
• Collection of CSS, HTML and JavaScript
• Features
• Typography
• Color Schemes
• Icons
• Animations
• Responsive Grid
Office UI Fabric

32. Components

34. • Test in multiple browsers / desktop applications
• Security zones in IE L
• Differences in capabilities
• E.g., Outlook for Mac does not support APIs for compose mode
• EWS Callback Token Bug !!!
Lessons Learned

36. Thank you!