Each year we receive hundreds of nominations for the Office App Awards since the awards celebrate the top apps and add-ins that help customize the productivity experience for Office users. Nearly two … more

At Microsoft Ignite 2017, we are featuring several new and updated components to Patterns and Practices libraries to help you jump start your development environment. Over time, and with … more

The People's choice award is part of the 2017 Office APP Awards, where we recognize the best of partner add-ins and apps that leverage the Office platform. 

Nominations are now closed. & … more

Welcome

We're excited to welcome the 24,000 Microsoft customers from around the world travelling to Orlando, plus the thousands more attending virtually, to Ignite 2017. We're pleased to share the … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering the recent release of SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 2 with SharePoint Framework support. We talk about the upcoming  … more

Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) capability was initially announced for dev preview in September 2016 and Office 365 public CDN was released for general availability during spring 2017. … more

Excel JavaScript APIs, which are part of the Office.js library, provide a rich set of APIs that you can use to build powerful solutions within Excel that run on multiple platforms. We continue to … more

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

The Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp is a free, one-day training event led by Microsoft MVPs with support from Microsoft and local community leaders. The bootcamps will provide hands-on labs for … more

The Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp is a free, one-day training event led by Microsoft MVPs with support from Microsoft and local community leaders. The bootcamps will provide hands-on labs for … more

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) lets you build responsive, engaging web parts using the latest developer frameworks and tools. With the release of Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2016, you can use … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) September 2017 release is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering different options which are available for developers around client-side web part property integration with SharePoint. When you are designing and … more

Botkit now supports Teams

We are continually working to make Microsoft Teams more open and easy for developers to build new apps for Teams. To that end, we're excited to announce that Botkit, one of … more

We'd like to give you a heads-up on some changes coming to the People API. We have incorporated valuable feedback from customers during the preview period and will start rolling out the changes … more

It's time for the 2017 Office APP Awards, where we recognize the best of partner add-ins and apps that leverage the Office platform.  Nominations have now closed.  Winners receive … more

With SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Extensions, you can now customize more facets of the SharePoint experience, including standard page elements like headers as well as command sets and list rendering. … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on new GDPR Activity Hub reference solution. The GDPR Activity Hub is an open source project that you can consider as a starter kit for building a … more

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

Founded in 2013 and based in Australia, Fyrebox makes it easy for businesses to create a quiz for their website or landing page. In 2016, they integrated with Yammer because they saw a shared market - … more

You can use new capabilities released today that provide more options for engaging broader audiences with your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web parts. We are pleased to announce a new tenant-wide SPFx … more

The OneNote API is now available on sites routes in Microsoft Graph v1.0. This means that you can now access SharePoint site-hosted team notebooks via the OneNote APIs in Microsoft Graph. At … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) August 2017 release is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on how you programmatically can create and manipulate modern pages and in particular how to use the added support for modern client-side pages with multiple zones … more

Founded in 2014, Wiretap interfaces with social networks to allow companies to safely grow, learn from, and secure their social interactions. The inspiration to build an app for Yammer Networks came … more

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

In this PnP Webcast, we show you how you can use the SharePoint Access App scanner (http://aka.ms/sppnp-accessappscanner) to gather inventory and usage data of the Access Web Apps inside your tenant. … more

In this SharePoint PnP Partner Story, we concentrated on showing how MondayCoffee is using the reusable SharePoint PnP components and patterns in their solutions built for their … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on needed steps to automate build and release pipelines in Visual Studio Team Services for your SharePoint Framework solution. We'll walk through the needed … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) June 2017 release is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related on what … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on SharePoint Framework Extensions developer preview. SharePoint Framework Extensions provide you capabilities for customizing the user interface of "modern" … more

Since the launch of SharePoint Framework in February, developers have built or deployed modern client-side web parts made with the SharePoint Framework across thousands of Office 365 tenancies. … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on a classic topic around transforming your on-premises customizations (farm solutions) to valid options, when moving to SharePoint Online. You can  … more

The Microsoft Graph Explorer is a tool that lets developers easily experiment with the Microsoft Graph API from their browser. Last month, we announced an update with new features including sample … more

Late last year we announced the Centralized Deployment service in preview, that allows administrators to deploy Office add-ins and today we are excited to announce general availability of Centralized … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated to have a quick discussion around the most common (mis)conceptions around SharePoint Framework. We chose three commonly heard statements and talked about the  … 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 and Project Online. This release … more

We are pleased to announce that updated training for the SharePoint Framework is now ready and available to use. Whether you are looking to get started with SharePoint development, educate your team, … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on introducing new community driven Visual Studio extension for SharePoint Framework solutions. The Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint … more

This blog post is part of a series based on our newly published guide for being effective in "Going to Market" with your Office add-in or service. This blog series is targeted for people developing … more

In addition to exposing users' data, like who they are and what content they work with (files, messages, conversations, tasks, etc.), the Microsoft Graph also exposes calculated insights based on the … more

In this PnP Webcast, we’re introducing the SharePoint “Modern” user interface experience scanner. Using this command line utility, you can scan your tenant for compatibility with … more

Discover the Pixton Comic Characters add-in for Office and create engaging visual communications. 

Week after week, new improvements and enhancements pop up within SharePoint. With new … more

Discover the Pixton Comic Characters add-in for Office and create engaging visual communications – one of the many engaging add-ins available for Office. 

All … more

Discover the Pixton Comic Characters add-in for Office and create engaging visual communications.

The Microsoft Graph API provides a broad, consistent foundation for any business … more

Discover the Pixton Comic Characters add-in for Office and create engaging visual communications – one of the many engaging add-ins available for Office. 

Our goal is to enhance … more

Millions of users rely on Office 365 to help them express ideas, synthesize data, and collaborate with their teams. With Office Add-ins, and new Add-in capabilities, Office JS APIs and connections to … more

Today, at Microsoft Build 2017, we announced upcoming previews of new APIs and extensible user experiences available for developers across Office, including SharePoint and OneDrive. Following on the … more

We previewed Actionable Messages last fall for Office 365 customers who use Outlook on the web. Today, at Microsoft Build 2017, we announced that we are bringing Actionable Messages to more … more

We are excited to join the Office team this year at Build 2017 to talk about what's new on the Microsoft Teams developer platform. At preview, we delivered a rich platform with tabs, bots and Office 3 … more

At Build 2017, we announced several new Microsoft Graph APIs and capabilities, marking another significant addition to the toolset we offer to developers who build business applications and processes. … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) May 2017 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 Webcast, we concentrate on how to secure traffic from SharePoint Framework solution towards an external API hosted in Azure. Technically similar process does work with other … more

We are pleased to announce that we are rolling out new capabilities to modern pages that let users add app parts from SharePoint add-ins. With this new capability, the set of available parts for … more

In less than one week, at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, Office will feature a wide range of breakout sessions, tech talks, and recordings about what’s new in the Office 365 platform. … more

Visible recognition in an enterprise social network is a powerful way for peers to highlight each other's strengths and accomplishments.  One way to give recognition is with a digital badge … more

We are pleased to announce the next update to the Microsoft Graph Explorer is rolling out to production today. This update enhances the user experience and makes it easier for you to explore the … more

Update 5/10/17: Based on feedback from our customers that the posted limit is too low for their apps, this is not currently being enforced. We're working with them and gathering data to understand … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on debugging options with SharePoint Framework solutions. There are numerous ways to perform debugging when developing SharePoint Framework solutions. In … more

Howdy folks,

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

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on the key considerations around the SharePoint Framework for SharePoint administrators. SharePoint Framework solutions are deployed centrally to SharePoint … more

We are excited to announce updates on our Office 365 Public Content Delivery Network (CDN) capability with great new features comparing to previously released preview functionality. We are also … more

Microsoft Graph provides a single API endpoint that gives you access to rich people-centric data and insights, via a number of resources like users and messages. Many applications need to keep track … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate more on how to control the "modern experiences" for sites, lists and pages at different scopes in Office 365 tenant. These settings are typically … more

Wouldn’t it be crazy if you could launch Excel, click to open a small code window, and then instantly start writing and executing JavaScript that interacts with your spreadsheet? … more

Hello, we are making a few changes to the Planner Task API on the Microsoft Graph REST API Beta endpoint.  These changes add support for recently released features (multi-assign tasks) and puts … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on demonstrating how to build provisioning solution using modern lists, PnP PowerShell and Azure WebJobs. Mikael Svenson from Puzzlepart  … more

New data type support in Access which unlocks multiple scenarios based on Access's ability to read and write data to and from external data sources that use BigInt (as PK or other), such as SQL. … more

Last week, the Office Extensibility team introduced a new enhancement to the add-in manifest validation experience. The Office Add-in Validator will help you pinpoint errors in your manifest without … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on the governance and organizational considerations around SharePoint Framework solution development and deployment. This is more a discussion based … 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 and Project Online. This release … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on covering PnP JavaScript Core library (sp-pnp-js). Key concentration is around the scenarios and value of what this library actually provides. … more

Since 2014, tyGraph for Yammer has been a social analytics app in the Yammer App Directory. Built upon input from Yammer community managers and IT collaboration experts, this analytics app … more

We are excited to share that the Microsoft Office Developer Program has added NEW value, NEW training opportunities and FREE perks for developers who build solutions that extend Office and the Office … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on how you programmatically can create modern pages and how to update them. Modern pages are the default page type for both modern SharePoint sites as for classic … more

Today, we announced that Microsoft Teams, the chat-based workspace in Office 365, is now generally available in 181 markets and in 19 languages.  Since announcing the Preview in November, more … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) March 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on covering what are the different options on accessing SharePoint data from SharePoint Framework solution. There are numerous options for the approach … more

In addition to exposing users’ data, like who they are and what content they work with (files, messages, conversations, tasks, etc.), the Microsoft Graph also exposes calculated insights based … more

Microsoft Graph provides a single API endpoint that gives you access to rich people-centric data and insights, via a number of resources like users and messages. Frequently, developers want to … more

On behalf of the Office developer teams, congratulations to the Visual Studio team on their launch of Visual Studio 2017 and on their 20th anniversary! In those 20 years, Visual Studio has … more

Today, we’re announcing that the Microsoft Graph developer portal has a new look, and will redirect to a new home on the Microsoft Developer Center.

Check out the Examples page for inspiration … more

In this PnP Webcast, we covered diffrent options around provisioning SharePoint assets to SharePoint sites as part of the SharePoint Framework solution package. Typical scenario would be a  … more

We’re very excited to announce the release of the Visio JavaScript APIs. You can use the Visio JavaScript APIs to extend Visio Online and build rich mashup scenarios. These APIs are now … more

In this PnP Webcast, we wanted to concentrate on how you can automate your custom solution deployments to Office 365 and to Azure. We use PnP Partner Pack reference solution as the example … more

This blog post is part of a new series based on our newly published guide for being effective in “Going to Market” with your Office add-in or service. We’ll follow up in later blogs … more

The benefit of online forums is that developers can learn from each other. At Yammer, we expand on this knowledge sharing by publishing interviews with the developers of successful Yammer … 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 and Project Online. This release … more

(this is a re-post of the main announcement on the Office blog)

The past year has come with significant updates to our SharePoint user experiences, such as modern team sites, document libraries and … more

In this PnP Webcast, we wanted to concentrate on the PnP initiative and really talk about the value of the initiate or it's assets for the field. This can be considered as 100 level introduction … more

In this SharePoint PnP Partner Story we concentrated on showing how Solvion is using the reusable SharePoint PnP components and patterns in their solutions built for their … more

Today we are extending the value of the Skype Developer Platform with a collection of new capabilities designed to support an important scenario with broad application across a range of industries & … more

Since we announced the preview of Microsoft Teams in November, we’ve seen great momentum with users. It has also been exciting to see developers around the globe start using the Microsoft Teams … more

We’re happy to announce the availability to attach the debugger from the task pane for Office Add-ins.  This attach debugger feature will directly attach the debugger to the correct … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) February 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

In this PnP Webcast, we wanted to have a discussion on the different development and customization models for SharePoint. Webcast is in format of a discussion around advantages and disadvantages of … more