#javascript api for office

Office Development–How to reach the Office Extensibility Platform team

A long time ago, I answered a lot of questions in the so called Microsoft Forums assisting the community with VSTO issues. The forums still exist (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=vsto), but are not the main access point anymore if you want to reach the Office Extensibility Platform team with your questions or issues. These days https://www.stackoverflow.com is…

Office Development–Word Add – in in Visual Studio ‘in action’

Yesterday in my blogpost I showed you the instructions to perform to create your first Word Add-in not by command line tools like I showed earlier, but by using Visual Studio 2017. So here it is: Boot up your Visual Studio IDE and select File, new Project. In the New Project Dialog select on the left hand of the dialog the tree item Add-ins under the Office/SharePoint node. On the right hand you…

Office Development – Word Add-in – Using Visual Studio

A while ago, not too long, I showed you how to start developing your Word Add-in from scratch using nothing but command line tools. Check my blog archives for the last couple of weeks if you missed that. Today we are looking at the same process but now using Visual Studio. Where to begin? According to the page: https://dev.office.com/getting-started/addins going through the process of steps you…

Office Development – Book: Building Office Add-ins using Office.js

While looking for references and/or resources to support my research on the ‘new’ Office Add-ins I repeatedly stumbled over the sample chapters of one book in particular: Building Office Add-ins using Office.js https://leanpub.com/buildingofficeaddins The book is published on LeanPub and this means that it is work in progress. The author is continuously working on the manuscript and is…

Office Development – Word.RequestContext vs Word.run

Yesterday we’ve seen the minimal code running to insert a bit of text at the selected Range using Word.RequestContext: (() => {    async function MinimalWordmethod() {       // Create the client request context. You’ll do this for al Word add-ins.       var ctx = new Word.RequestContext();       // Do your things here, such as ..       var range = ctx.document.getSelection();      …

Office Development – Minimal Code in practice

Returning on my last ‘minimal code’ blog post, I promised to get back on this to see how this works in practice. One of my question marks I added to the post was that I wondered why the Yeoman boilerplate was using run instead of RequestContext where run passed a context parameter as opposed to the RequestContext where actively a context is requested before accessing the Word object model. I…

Office Development – Coding in Script Lab

One of the nice things in Script Lab is that you can connect it to GitHub allowing you to share your code snippets or import code snippets from other people. If you opened the Script Lab Task Pane you will notice this little person icon with an even smaller plus sign. With this button you can authorize Script Lab to access your GitHub account where it needs read and write access to read or write…