Tag: #office365dev

[O365] Getting started with yo office for hardcore C# devs [part 2]

My previous tech blog covered the use the of the Yeoman generator for creating Office add-ins, specifically add-ins which can be used within Office365 and the Office client applications. This left you with a vanilla sample application which doesn’t do much yet. In this post, I will explain how to implement such an add-in, leveraging

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[O365] Debugging Office add-ins

In my previous posts I wrote about creating an office add-in using the Yeoman generator and my first add-in using Yo Office. Now as long as everything just works, these samples are doable. But when things start to go wrong, you can lose quit some time finding your way in the wonderfull world of add-ins.

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[O365] Getting started with yo office for hardcore C# devs

I’ll immediately admit that I’m a Microsoftie. 100%. I have Visual Studio installed, feel at home in C# and get a rash sometimes from dealing with JavaScript nonsense. But let’s be honest, unless you’re not doing ANYTHING with the web it’s almost impossible to ignore trending technologies like nodejs, angularĀ and all of the other frameworks

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[O365] My thoughts from Unity Connect 2015

These last few years I made it a habit to visit TCFKASPC: The Conference Formerly Known As SharePoint Connections. This year it was relabeled Unity Connect after the IT Unity initiative founded by Dan Holme and others. I think two days of conference is a good way of submerging yourself into the latest and greatest,

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[O365] Parallel processing and CSOM; friends or foes?

In the project I’ve been working on the last few months, we had to import some list items and file into SharePoint coming from a legacy application which is being replaced by SharePoint Online. There is plenty of guidance available on how to do this, it boils down to using the CSOM API’s to upload

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