M365 Saturday Sydney 2019 - Dispelling the Office Add-in Stigma
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Let's face it Office Add-ins have a bad reputation of being unstable, performance hogs and a challenge to deploy. I'm here to explain how the modern add-ins model has drastically changed the landscape. We will discuss stability, performance, deployment, capability and opportunity. It's time to look again at using add-ins to increase productivity.
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M365 Saturday Sydney 2019 - Dispelling the Office Add-in Stigma
- 1. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Dispelling the Office Add-in Stigma Cameron Dwyer | MVP | OnePlace Solutions
- 2. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Event Sponsors
- 3. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer The Huge Potential of Add-ins • Impressive user base size • Keep users focused and in context • Minimise context switching • Not an additional application 180M Office 365 Monthly Active Users 400M Outlook.com Users 1B Office App Downloads on Android
- 4. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer So why don’t we see huge add-in usage? • Historically VSTO/COM gained a bad reputation • They were universally painful to work with • Office worked on all devices, add-ins didn’t
- 5. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer The modern add-in model to the rescue Cross platform Web technologies Modern distribution
- 6. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Modern add-in anatomy XML Manifest HTML Page
- 7. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Add-in shown in mini web browsers
- 8. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer DEMO: Add-in Anatomy
- 9. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer How does this modern approach fix things? Modern Model Old VSTO / COM Model
- 10. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Slow start up • General slowdown of host app • Slow and hanging on shutdown • Dynamic ribbon menus Host App Performance OldVSTO/COMModel
- 11. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Add-in manifest does not contain code • No custom code runs at host start-up • Custom code only runs when user wants to use add-in • Runs in sandboxed browser/iframe Host App Performance ModernModel
- 12. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Freezing, hanging and crashing • Synchronous events not completing • Unmanaged code, memory leaks • Leaving objects in invalid state Host App Stability OldVSTO/COMModel
- 13. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Add-in code is isolated from host app • Add-in framework monitors add-in CPU/Memory usage • Events where code runs are async “after” events • Modal interaction are not allowed Host App Stability ModernModel
- 14. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer DEMO: Prevent Modal Interactions
- 15. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Add-ins are installed with full-trust • Read/write access to Office document • Read/write access to all files • May access other running apps Permissions OldVSTO/COMModel
- 16. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Permissions ModernModel • Sandboxed similar to websites • Very limited access to host OS/device • Host application exposed only through Office.js • Different permission levels Read/Write/ReadWrite
- 17. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Add-ins only ran on Windows versions of Office • Technology stack would only work on Windows • COM late 90’s / VSTO 2003 • Office is now on Mac, Online, iOS and Android Supported environments OldVSTO/COMModel
- 18. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Windows • Mac • Online (web) • iOS (iPhone & iPad) • Android (phones and tablets) Supported environments ModernModel
- 19. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Limited technology options .Net / COM • Tech lag • Steep product specific learning curve • Visual Studio IDE • Microsoft development stack Development environment OldVSTO/COMModel
- 20. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Web standard technologies • Use any scripting framework (Angular, React, Vue) or none • Use any IDE • Use any toolchain • Easy for existing web developers to build Office add-ins Development environment ModernModel
- 21. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Installed per user / per machine • Complex roaming & multiple users • Pre-requisites • Add-ins not loading (going missing) Deployment OldVSTO/COMModel
- 22. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Public Store exposed in-app • No installation of code • Add-in is associated with the user (roams) • Automatic updates to add-ins • Governance options Deployment ModernModel
- 23. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer DEMO: Add-in Deployment
- 24. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer • Breadth of API functionality • Ability to extend UI in more places • More synchronous (before) events • Richer integration with other resources on the PC • Offline Scenarios where VSTO/COM beats modern
- 25. M365 Saturday Sydney@CameronDwyer Try out some modern add-ins