We are pleased to announce that Microsoft is publishing its “REST API Design Guidelines” to the API community: http://www.GitHub.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/. 

These guidelines … more

Howdy folks,

We've seen a few posts recently on Stack Overflow from developers asking whether they should be using Microsoft Graph (graph.microsoft.com) vs Azure AD Graph (graph.windows.net).  … more

This is an update about breaking changes that we are making that only impact Contacts and People APIs on the Microsoft Graph REST API Beta endpoint.

It is a schema change where a few properties are … more

We’re excited about the modern document library experience coming to Office 365, and we’ve seen great response from customers using it in first release so far.  We do know … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on high level steps around converting your existing JavaScript application to SharePoint Framework or to be hosted in SharePoint Framework. Web cast … more

Calling all App Developers

It’s time for the 2016 Office App Awards, where we recognize the best of partner add-ins and apps that leverage the Office

platform.  Nominations are open … more

In this webcast, we will walk through the end-to-end process of building an Office Add-in for Excel:  from launching Visual Studio, to writing a bit of JavaScript code that uses the new Excel 201 … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on upcoming SharePoint WebHooks capability. This is capability which will be available for first release tenants starting from summer 2016. … more

Hi folks,

Today we’re announcing the introduction of a new preview API to Microsoft Graph: IdentityRiskEvents. This API works in conjunction with Azure Active Directory Identity Protection and … more

Office 365 and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) June 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release again contains& … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Microsoft Graph or more specifically covering how the .NET SDK for Microsoft Graph can be used in your customizations. .NET SDK for Microsoft … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on sharing how to get prepared for the upcoming SharePoint Framework. We are showing some of the tools used commonly with SharePoint Framework … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release again contains& … more

We are happy to announce a new and improved process for enabling easier way to make documentation contributions around the Office 365 Dev and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) MSDN section. … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Bulk UPA Custom Profile Properties Update API for SharePoint Online, which enables you to update custom profile properties of your end users in batch … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on showing in practice how to get started with upcoming SharePoint Framework. We demonstrated the preview tooling (*) for development and how the … more

Hi all, we want to give you a heads up on some changes that are coming to the FindMeetingTimes API which is available in preview in Microsoft Graph. We are making these changes to further improve the … more

As you may know, Apple has long encouraged application developers to adopt the 64-bit runtime environment, and we’ve been hearing from customers (e.g. here and here) that 64-bit versions of Mac … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on getting started with general web stack in the context of SharePoint or Office 365. This recording was done before the SharePoint Framework … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) May 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on how to manage your app and service principals using either code or using PowerShell. App principals have by default life cycle of one year, which can … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Quick Contacts PnP sample, which was originally released as part of the April 2016 monthly release. This sample shows how you could use the  … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) versioning and how you can take the different SharePoint target versions into account in your … more

When you are developing your customizations using managed code and with Client Side Object Model (CSOM), it's important to understand that CSOM version to be used is dependent on your … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the Office Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) Special Interest Group (SIG) for JavaScript. This is relatively new SIG and virtual team in the PnP … more

As part of the new Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version (4622.1208 or newer), SharePoint has new capability for bulk importing custom user profile properties. This capability has been now enabled … more

In this PnP Web Cast we wanted to do a high level introduction on what the Office Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) initiative is all about and what are all the different resources … more

The Office Developer Platform story got its latest stage of updates at Build 2016. Kirk Koenigsbauer explained the major themes of the news over at blogs.office.com. In this blog post we will … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering in practice how to contribute for the Office Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) initiative for the benefit of others in the community. Presentation … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release contains  … more

Hi folks, we've got another incremental update for our Microsoft Graph webhooks preview on the journey towards shipping a production release.  First, I'm pleased to say we've rounded out the … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the Responsive UI Package for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016, which was recently released in the PnP-Tools repository. Presentation concentrates on … more

We are happy to announce the availability of the Project Online CSOM library.  The library contains access to all the enhancements we have made towards improving our API.  The Project … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on one great contributions from the community called Widget Wrangler. Widget Wrangler is a open source JavaScript library which will help to implement … more

In November 2015, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Graph, located at graph.microsoft.com.  The Microsoft Graph exposes APIs, data and intelligence across Office 365 and Azure … more

Here in the Office Store, we're eager to ensure that we're providing our customers with compelling, usable add-ins.  In December, we revamped the Office Store policies and  … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) March 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the Cross-Origin Resources Sharing (CORS) considerations in JavaScript development with SharePoint customization's. Web cast concentrates on explaining … more

We are excited to announce availability of open source Responsive UI Package for SharePoint on-premises. This package is designed to transform your SharePoint on-premises deployment responsive … more

We are conducting a community survey around the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) program. Your input truly matter and we want to collect some feedback around the PnP … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on additional configuration needed on the SharePoint on-premises farms when you start using add-in model based implementations. This is a follow up web cast for& … more

We are excited to release additional options on getting more closely involved on the Office Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) initiate. We have been approached numerous times during past months by … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrate on the different infrastructural options around setting up provider hosted add-in environment for SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016. This time we do not have … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrate on the Office 365 Dev PnP Core Component which is designed to increase the productivity of developers when you are developing applications for SharePoint … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) February 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrate on the Microsoft Graph and more specifically on how you can use that without in your solutions to access user or company specific information when you … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This update contains new … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrate on the Azure AD, oAuth and OpenID connect and how the plumbing actually works when you are using Azure Active Directory based authorization for yours add- … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrate on the classic discussion around the flexibility and future of the SharePoint feature framework based provisioning models comparing to remote … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Help Desk web application solution available from the PnP sample/solution gallery. This solution demonstrates how to build single page app … more

Announcing today the Microsoft Graph Changelog, from now on you will have access to all the changes, updates, and fixes happening to Microsoft Graph. In the first release of the changelog, we are … more

Hi, Gareth Jones here.  I recently joined the Microsoft Graph team from our friends over in OneNote. I'm beyond excited at the wonderful enthusiasm you've shown for the Microsoft Graph since … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) January 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on so called "property bag trick" with CSOM or REST to adjust and change additional settings in site or in list level. This is something which we have mentioned … more

We’re pleased to announce a new capability for Office add-ins – the ability to associate an Office add-in with work or school accounts. Before this capability, users needed to sign in … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Azure Active Directory from the Office 365 developer perspective.

Azure Active Directory is used in numerous different ways as part of the cloud development … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on SharePoint Online throttling and how to deal with it in your own customizations.

Code executed towards SharePoint IOnline can in certain scenarios& … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the PnP Core Component and SharePoint related Nuget packages available from the Nuget gallery. Web cast concentrates on covering different available Nuget … more

In this PnP Web Cast we continued covering different remote site provisioning solutions in the Office 365 Dev PnP sample gallery. Since remote provisioning pattern is the recommended option to … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint CSOM version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This updated CSOM release contains numerous highly … more

Today we are excited to announce the preview release of add-in commands for Word 2016, Excel 2016 and Excel Online. (Add-in commands were made available for Outlook earlier this year). Add-in … more

One of the key challenges for providing enterprise scale provider hosted add-ins in the Microsoft Office Store has been lack of supporting full trust operations for any add-ins which are … more

In an effort to streamline and enhance developer experiences, the Seller Dashboard registration experience will be switching to use the common Microsoft Dev Center registration process. For a one- … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) December 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the JavaScript development performance considerations with SharePoint sites. There are many scenarios in the typical deployments with SharePoint add-in model … more

Attention all add-in developers, especially add-in developers that have already submitted Office add-ins to the Office Store. We’re announcing some changes that will happen in the future, and a … more

by Rob Lefferts, on November 30, 2015

Across Office, Office 365 and SharePoint, we are incredibly excited about people being productive. This fuels not only our passion to reinvent productivity, … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on asynchronous operation pattern with Office 365 using Azure WebJobs. This is really powerful pattern for performing scheduled and on-demand operations, which is … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering different recommendations around applying custom branding to SharePoint sites using add-in/app model techniques. This is relatively classic discussion … more

Our primary news today was the general availability of Microsoft Graph, the unified endpoint to reach all Office 365 workloads for data and insights, located at https://graph.microsoft.com. However, … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the JavaScript development models with SharePoint sites. There are many scenarios in the typical deployments with SharePoint add-in model where you'd take … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the PnP Partner Pack, which was released as part of the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2015 release. PnP Partner Pack is reference … more

Hi all, this is the fourth update for Office 365 unified API, we're announcing another set of breaking changes.  These changes will roll in to the /beta endpoint on 11/9 noon PST.  Here is … more

Hi all, this is the third update for Office 365 unified API announcing a set of breaking changes that will roll in to the /beta endpoint effective today.

These changes are mostly property … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the PnP Remote Provisioning engine, which is part of the PnP Core component and can be used to remotely extract and provision standardized sites based on … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on PnP PowerShell CmdLets which will let you to manage Office 365 SharePoint sites or on-premises SharePoint deployments remotely using remote APIs, but without … more

Recently, we shared an overview of the new extensibility capabilities available for developers as part of the new Office 2016. In addition to the improvements discussed there, including connecting … more

Our team has been running a series of hackathons across the Globe at large developer events. This week marks the start of a hackathon at Angular Connect conference in London. This event is run by the … more

In this weekly PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering PnP remote timer job framework and how you can use this open source solution to help on implementing remote timer jobs using add-in model … more

Our team has been running a series of hackathons across the Globe at large developer events. This week marks the start of a hackathon at Dev Intersections in Amsterdam.

 Jeremy Thake and … more

Following up on our recent post, today we are announcing another set of breaking changes in the preview (/beta) of Office 365 unified API. This changes will roll out on 10/19 at 12:00pm PST, after … more

We'll start brand new series of weekly web casts which will concentrate on covering topics around Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices. We are targeting to release new web cast on each Monday … more

In August we shipped version 2 of the Property Manager hero demo to github. One of the biggest bits of feedback we got was that people love all of our training available on http://dev.office.com/ … more

SharePoint add-in model is common topic around customers and partners moving on the Office 365 and also in the on-premises. Since the approaches are still relatively new compared to classic farm … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) October 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

If you’ve been listening to the Office 365 Developer Podcast with Jeremy Thake (@jthake) and Richard DiZerega (@richdizz)…you would have heard that we’ve been busy putting together … more

Office add-ins are supported across a range of our Office clients including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word. Office.js is the real power of Office add-ins talking back to the content in context … more

During the //build 2015 conference we released some really exciting news to our developer community about a new unified API surface for Office 365 and Microsoft cloud services. This API, known as … more

We just pushed a refreshed set of Office Add-in and SharePoint Add-in samples from Code Gallery to GitHub. While we were at it, we also added new samples and updated the others to show off some … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) September 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

Introduction to PnP

The Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices (PnP) initiative was originally formed in 2013 by a group of Microsoft consultants who were working on helping on-premises … more

During Build and Ignite 2015, we announced the preview refresh of File Handler add-ins. This add-in type allows developers to create their own custom viewers and editors for non-Microsoft file types … more

When building Office Add-ins developers are provided first-rate tooling with Visual Studio 2013/2015. Developers can easily create Office Add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word and other Office … more

We are excited to announce some updates to our Getting Started Experiences for Office 365 APIs and Office Add-ins. We've built this from the ground up as our goal is to empower developers to build … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) August 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the others in the community. This post contains all the details related … more