Programming Microsoft Office 365: Covers Microsoft Graph, Office 365 applications, SharePoint Add-ins, Office 365 Groups, and more

Chapter 11. Overview of Office Add-ins

The Office Add-ins are another kind of custom developed solution that you can create to extend the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem.

In this chapter, you will have an overview of the various flavors of Office Add-ins that you can create, and you will understand the potential of the Office Add-ins development model.

Introducing Office Add-ins

An Office Add-in is a custom developed extension that can add capabilities or functionalities to the Office client. One key feature of the Office Add-ins is that they can extend not only Office client for desktop, but also the Office Web Apps and the mobile apps for Office. In Figure 11-1, you can see a schema that explains the architecture of an Office Add-in.

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