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Recently, the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog published my three-part series about “Working With Office 365 Groups And Connectors”. Read the articles online in the MVP blog here: Part 1 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 2 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 3 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Also, thanks to Richard Hay for posting the summary at windowsitpro.com: Learn more about Office 365 Groups and Connectors. ...

Before developing, it’s useful to create a mockup for an application. PowerPoint can help! As prerequisites, you need to have PowerPoint and Visual Studio 2013 or later installed. If this is the case, you find additional shapes in the Storyboarding / Storyboard Shapes menu. This opens a task pane with elements sorted by category (Common, Windows Apps, Desktop, Phone, etc) you need to draw an app. See more information at Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint. ...

After part 1, we now look into the app side of our Excel solution. I want to point out some basics here to make it easy for developers to create their first Office App (with Excel). Here we go. Working with the API To easily access the Excel or Word functions with JavasScript, Microsoft provides an object with an anonymous function and a context (*ctx *here) as parameter. So, accessing Excel works basically as here: ...

Sometimes, it’s the small things that cost (unnecessarily) time. Recently, I wanted to create a quick Office App for an existing Excel file to loop through rows and do some transformation for the values. I was stumbling over some topics when developing in real world. So here’s my short How To for working with Visual Studio and Office Apps with helpful tips. Set the start document If you are not used to develop Office Apps often, this maybe isn’t easy to find: How to set an existing document as start file. ...

Nice numbers of our two Office-AddIns “TagCloud Generator” and “Like for Outlook”. Both Apps are available in the Microsoft Office Store. TagCloud Generator is a simple to use tagcloud generator for Microsoft Word (working with Word 2013 and above) and delivers an overview of a document rapidly. Like for Outlook enables users to send a Like with one click and works in Outlook 2013 or later, Outlook 2016 for Mac, Outlook on the Web. ...

Need the new OneDrive (and SharePoint) Next Generation Sync Client on your computer? Download the bits directly from here: Update 02. Nov. 2016: Download-Link replaced. Follow this following link to get the latest version of the NGSC client, since Microsoft is currently updating the client almost daily… https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=823059 If you have an older version installed, this will be automatically overwritten by the new client. The NGSC client supports OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. ...

We at atwork are now official Microsoft Authorized Education Partner (AEP). The AEP program authorizes atwork to purchase and re-sell academic priced products to Qualified Educational Users. Microsoft informs about the details on https://www.mepn.com/MEPN/AEPHome.aspx. The short description reads as follows: The AEP program authorizes partners to purchase and re-sell academic priced products to Qualified Educational Users. The program is designed to increase customer and partner satisfaction and to improve communication and service to our partners with a standard set of terms and conditions, improved training, and new resources and tools to keep the channel informed with up to date information on new products and events, in addition to guarding against channel miss-selling of academic licensing. ...

Check out this upcoming session with our CEO, Martina Grom, at Microsoft’s Ignite Conference 2016 in Atlanta: Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups! https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/4098 CU there!

Visual Studio Code ist eine feine Sache. Das kostenlose Entwicklungssystem für Windows, OS X und Linux ist unter https://code.visualstudio.com downloadbar und stellt neben einem sehr leistungsfähigen Editor mit IntelliSense und Debugging, Git-Support und Extensions auch Runtimes für Node.js, .NET Core, Unity und Office bereit. Apropos Runtime: Wie sieht es mit Webprojekten aus? Das müssen wir Visual Studio Code erst beibringen… Visual Studio Code for all Für alle jene, die neu in Visual Studio Code (VSC) sind, informiert die Startseite The Basics of Visual Studio Code über den Editor und seine Leistungsfähigkeit. ...

Office 365 ist eine Developer Plattform. Als Einstieg in die Entwicklung stellt Microsoft die https://dev.office.com/ Website bereit. Neben den umfangreichen Informationen für den optimalen Start und vielen Demos gibt es auch eine weitere aktuelle Bezugsquelle, die wenig Developern bekannt ist: den Office 365 Developer Podcast. Davon gibt es nun die 100.te Ausgabe! Software-Entwickler finden im Office Dev Center den Einstieg in das Office Development. Das Office 365 Dev Team bei Microsoft feiert nun den 100.ten Podcast – und zwar mit prominenten Gästen! ...