Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio 2013

Office 365 API Tools enable developers to integrate Office 365 services such as mail, calendar, contacts, files, users and groups into their applications. It is now integrated with Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 - November 2014 Update.

Using the tool

Once installed, Office 365 tools are available under your project node’s context menu in the Solution Explorer by selecting Add->Connected Service.

Using this tool, developers can sign in to their Office 365 account and view the Office 365 services available to consume in their applications. Once signed in with Office 365 credentials, adding a service to the project is as easy as selecting the appropriate service and applying the required permissions.

Once the services are selected, Visual Studio performs the following:

1. Registers an application (if there isn’t an application registered yet) in Microsoft Azure Active Directory to consume Office 365 services.
2. Adds client libraries from Nuget for the configured services to the project.
3. Opens the getting started documentation page in your default web browser, which offers sample code that you can copy and paste to your project to use the client libraries.

Project types supported

With the breadth reach of the client libraries the Office 365 API tools is now available for a variety of project types (client, desktop and web) in Visual Studio. Below is list of all project types supported:

1. .NET Windows Store Apps
2. .NET Windows Store Universal Apps
3. Windows Forms Applications
4. WPF Applications
5. ASP.NET MVC Web Applications
6. ASP.NET Web Forms Applications
7. Xamarin Android and iOS Applications
8. Multi-device Hybrid Apps
9. Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (version 1.1.728 owards)

Office 365 APIs documentation

For documentation on Office 365 APIs, see: Office 365 APIs

Questions?

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