European Office 365 Connect 2014 Presentation

2. Albert-Jan Schot

4. • App Types
• Tooling
• My First App
• Application Model Samples
Agenda

5. App Types

6. User experiences

7. Tooling

8. Microsoft Project Siena

9. “Napa” Office 365
Development Tools

10. Visual Studio

11. • CSOM only Workflow & Managed Metadata
• REST has more documentation
• CSOM has ‘better’ intellisense
• CSOM has batching
• Your preference
Rest vs CSOM

12. • IE 8 … (till April)
• Include resource files
• Fail gracefully
• Minify CSS / Script
Generic Tips

13. Mavention
Profilecompleteness

15. User experiences

16. • Lot of proven patterns, it’s not just web part to app
part discussions…
• SP App patterns can be use cross cloud and on-
premises…
• Stop using declarative options for site provisioning…
• Use SP App patterns to provide flexibility for your
provisioning patterns…
Key takeaways on apps at SPC14

17. • Provides FTC-alike functionality
• No ‘footprint’
• Supports provisioning
Using apps in Office 365

19. • Lot of proven patterns, it’s not just web part to app
part discussions…
• Go play with it as almost everything you could do
with FTC can be done…
Takeaways

20. Q&A

23. Resources
Plan customizations
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-
online-enterprise-help/plan-customizations-solutions-
and-apps-for-sharepoint-online-
HA102772716.aspx#_I_want_to_5
Andrew Connel on Apps
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/sharepoint-
hosted-apps-in-sp-2013-as-single-page-apps
MSDN on Cloud & SharePoint Hosting
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179887.aspx
REST API
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860569.aspx
Get a Developer Site
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179924.aspx
Napa app
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/store/napa-office-
365-development-tools-WA102963791.aspx
Waldek about an app in Project Siena
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/illustrating-app-idea-
microsoft-project-siena-spc14/

24. Resources
Andrew Connel on Apps
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-
csom-vs.-rest-...-my-preference-and-why
AMS demo’s
https://officeams.codeplex.com/
SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online solution pack
http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=42030
SPC14 REST vs CSOM
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-
Conference/2014/SPC423
SPC14 FTC to CAM
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-
Conference/2014/SPC325