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Blend Visual Studio Windows

Windows 10 Development: Adding Design-Time Data with Blend

In our last post, we installed the MVVM Light Toolkit and defined the basic framework for a simple two-page app with the MVVM pattern. With the ViewModels we created, we now have the containers for the data, but it would be even more helpful to pre-populate them with some sample data to aid in the designing of […]

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Microsoft Office

Apps for Office: Publishing and Distribution

We close out the series on developing Apps for Office by reviewing the different publishing options available for distributing your apps. Although the most likely scenario is publicly distributing a completed app, there may be situations where you want to limit access, such as for testing and internal use. We’ll look at the different options […]

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Microsoft Office

Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 3 – Compose Mode

Rounding out our journey through developing Apps for Office is a quick look at Mail Apps in Compose Mode. This sample continues the same project from our last entry on Read Mode Apps, with a separate folder of content to be shown when composing items in Outlook. Compose Mode: Item Context Like the previous example, […]

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Microsoft Office

Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 2 – Read Mode Sample

We continue our journey through Apps for Office with a quick tour through some of the API features in Outlook by reviewing another simple App demo. Like the Excel app, this one is not designed to solve any particular problem, but rather demonstrate some of the functionality exposed to Mail Apps. The full source code […]

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Microsoft Office

Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 1 – Setup and Activation

So far we have reviewed building task pane and content apps, which extend functionality for Microsoft office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Mail apps, on the other hand, are an entirely different class of apps, designed to work specifically with Outlook. In this first of two posts on Mail Apps, we’ll look at how […]

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Microsoft Office

Apps for Office: Creating a Content App for Excel

This post continues the deep dive into developing Apps for Office by demonstrating how to create a Content App that runs in Microsoft Excel. The app we build today demonstrates how to work with the Office API within Microsoft Excel to accomplish tasks such as creating tables, binding to selections, and communicating between the document […]

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