MVVM Light is a simple yet powerful framework for developing apps, and with the latest version 5 includes a new cross-platform NavigationService to aid in abstracting the navigation component of your apps. However, looking at the implementation of the INavigationService interface, there is no property available to support the idea of CanGoBack, which is important for devices like Windows […]
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I’m working on a project using the new Telerik UI for Windows Universal, specifically the Rating control. This control is highly customizable, supporting different shapes and symbols, and is surprisingly easy to modify. In my case, I was satisfied with the default Star symbol, but needed to modify the color. I expected to see this as a simple property of […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We continue our journey through Apps for Office by building a real-world Task Pane App. We’ll look at using some of the more useful features of the Office API as well as review some gotchas to keep in mind while developing Task Pane Apps.. For this demo we’ll create an app called Reuser. This app […]
This post is part of a series on developing Apps for Office 2013. Before we dive into creating the various Apps for Office examples, we should briefly review how you can use Visual Studio and your browser tools to debug issues and errors in your apps. Debugging Code: Just Hit F5 Visual Studio extends its […]
This is the second post in an ongoing series on posts about Apps for Office. Today we’ll look at the requirements and tools needed to get started developing, as well as a “Hello, World!” example. Prerequisites To develop Apps for Office you need at least the following: You also of course need to have the […]