#officejs

Office Development – Live Coding

Last two years I have been webcasting every Thursday at 8PM GMT+1/CET on our SDN Cast with my buddies Marcel Meijer, Fanie Reynders and recently added as fourth member Gerald Versluis. In this webcast we on a weekly base discuss the news, events on Software Development and added some demos. Usually the webcast was in Dutch but when we had international guests we shifted to English.

Running the…

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 – 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 – Installing Script Lab

Yesterday in my blog a short introduction to Script Lab, the Microsoft Garage project to work in some sort of a playground to develop your JavaScript for Office scripts so you can test-drive your code that you plan to use in your Add-in. Today I will go over the installation process of Script Lab. Step by step I’ll follow the instructions and see what this looks like. How hard can it be ‘ey? To…

Office Development – API Confusion

I started to dive in to the JavaScript API for Office. To get a starting point I started with Word as I’m very familiar with what is there already for VBA and VSTO and will allow me to give me a good starting point to compare. The first thing you find when you start looking at the JavaScript API for Office is that there are two JavaScript Object models: · Common APIs · Host-specific The Common…