Add-In

A long long time ago Microsoft released some samples on how to build your own AppChrome and People cards. You can find them on MSDN Office 365 JavaScript controls. It provides a great start to use and there is a nice bunch of samples out there that leverage these components. While preparing for a demo for the SharePoint Saturday Belgium on Microsoft Graph and Groups I took an old project of mine and expected something like the following to appear. ...

On 4 and 5 October 2016 one of the larger tech events in the Netherlands takes place, TechDays 2016. During these two days you can get the latest updates as a developer or data engineer. Including the Microsoft vision for developers and how they will impact your daily work. Like last year I will have the opportunity to present about what is keeping me busy. ...

I am honored to have the opportunity to speak at the SEF Unity Connect this year. Upcoming October I will be in Stockholm to deliver two sessions at the SEF Unity Connect. The first session will be all about building Add-ins for Office using the Modern Web Techniques. With a focus on Microsoft Graph and document interactions using OfficeJS it will be a great start to get up to speed. ...

Yet another update for Mavention Anniversaries just got approved in the store! In this latest version of the Mavention Anniversaries add-in a little bug regarding the anniversary date has been fixed. As it turned out calculating the years of service returned a wrong value in some cases. It got floored in some cases returning less years of service then actually where true. ...

Workflow is a pretty awesome feature of SharePoint, but combining them with the Add-in web (formerly known as app web) is even better! Let assume you either have a provider hosted add-in or a SharePoint hosted add-in. You then will most likely also have an add-in web. You can use the add-in web to store lists and libraries to hold information. ...

After having Mavention Anniversaries in the store for quite a while we felt that it was time for another upgrade. When we first released Mavention Anniversaries in the Office store it only showed the anniversaries of this and the next month. With the latest version that is available in the Office store as of today you can get all upcoming anniversaries. ...

The Dutch Information Worker User Group SharePoint eMagazine #16 has just been published. Shifting from purely developer focused to some power user content as well, the 16th version of the magazine has some great content around groups and productivity as well as the developer stuff around single page apps and stuff around angular. ...

Office add-ins are a great way to extend the experience of the Office Clients and help users achieve their tasks. By helping users in their existing context it is easier to achieve their tasks. With the latest revision of the validation policies for the Office Store you can see that it is possible to add add-ins to Word Online and Excel Online. ...

Almost eighteen months ago we released the first version of the Mavention Birthdays and the Mavention Anniversaries. As predicted then building add-ins turned out to be quite addicting and we released a few more Mavention add-ins. Currently we are running seventeen different add-ins in the Office store, all of them free of charge. ...