Pro Office 365 Development / Edition 2

by Michael Mayberry, Mark Collins

Overview

Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful and flexible platform has to offer.

As an Office 365 developer, you have an amazing range of technologies at your fingertips. Build custom SharePoint apps in Visual Studio using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery. Create declarative workflow applications with Visio and SharePoint Designer. Use Access Web Database to publish your data on the web, or write Exchange and Lync applications. All these possibilities and more are covered.

You also have unprecedented control and flexibility over how you use these technologies in your applications. With a powerful set of Office 365 APIs, you can now access and integrate Office 365 data directly into your web or native applications, with full control of authentication, authorization and discovery.

No prior cloud experience is necessary. Sample projects are designed to bring the reader up-to-speed quickly, with full step-by-step instructions to maximize your success across the whole Office 365 suite. Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions, Pro Office 365 Development will show you how to do it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484202456
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/28/2014
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Michael Mayberry has been writing software professionally for over 12 years. The vast majority of that time has been spent using Microsoft technologies. He currently serves as a software architect for a large nonprofit organization, using his skills to build CRM and BI solutions. As an enterprise-centered architect, he focuses on the integration of new technologies with existing systems. He aims to build solutions that unify the different areas within an organization in order to better accomplish the common goal.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Office 365 for Developers

Chapter 2: Building and Customizing Your Web Presence

Chapter 3: Creating SharePoint Apps in Visual Studio 2013

Chapter 4: Creating Declarative Workflows

Chapter 5: Building and Publishing a Web Database with Access

Chapter 6: Developing Exchange Online Solutions

Chapter 7: Developing Lync Applications

Chapter 8: Consuming Data With Office 365 APIs

Chapter 9: Authentication, Authorization and Discovery Service

Chapter 10: Integrating Office 365 Technologies with REST APIs and MVC

Appendix A: SharePoint Primer

Appendix B: SharePoint Designer Workflow Editor