Building Apps for Office 365 requires many new skills and knowledge. For those new to SharePoint and all SharePoint veterans, building apps for Office 365 introduces a huge paradigm shift over the full-trust development model. Full-trust development is on its way out whether we like it or not. In this workshop, we will learn how to create real world apps deployable on Office 365 and On-premise SharePoint 2013. Learn to build SharePoint-Hosted apps and Provider-Hostedx Apps that will leverage various Azure services to create robust solutions, including Azure Web Sites, Azure Web Jobs and more. We will demonstrate and build a couple apps to explain and demonstrate many of the key Azure Services. The future is today. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge you need to build SharePoint App solutions for Office 365.​​

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Real World App Development for
Office365 & SharePoint 2013
Brian Culver

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3. About Brian Culver, MCM
• SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions
• Microsoft Certified Solution Master – Charter SharePoint
• Based in Houston, TX
• Author
• Speaker and Blogger

4. • What is Real World?
• What are Apps/Add-ins for SharePoint?
• SharePoint Solution Evolution
• What can you do with Apps/Add-ins
• App/Add-in Hosting
• SharePoint-Hosted Add-ins
• Provider-Hosted Add-ins
• Deployment Options
Session Agenda

5. • Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 x64 or Windows
Server 2012
• Visual Studio 2015/2013
• Update 5
• 24 GB RAM or more
• To be sure that you have the latest version of the tools use run
the installer for Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013, or
installer for Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015.
• Office 365 Developer Site
• MSDN Subscription / Office 365 Trial / Office 365 Dev
Subscription
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179924.aspx
What is real world?

6. • Things are changing fast … really fast
• MS is releasing new features for Azure and Office 365 at least
once a week. Often twice a week.
• Google Search results - last year or less
• Auto-hosted Apps gone … a long time ago
• Office 365 Patterns and Practices
• http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• http://dev.office.com/training
What is real world?

7. • SharePoint Add-ins are self-contained extensions of SharePoint
websites that you create, and that run without custom code on the
SharePoint server.
• As of August 19, 2015: The name "apps for SharePoint" is
changing to "SharePoint Add-ins".
What are Apps/Add-ins for SharePoint?

8. SharePoint Solution Evolution
Full Trust Solutions
No limits
• Support is complex and
difficult
• Upgrade is challenging
• Securing code to run in
hosted environments is
effectively impossible
Custom Code
SP Code
More custom code: aspx,
dlls, web services, GAC
Sandbox
Partial control
App Model
Control, Trust, Manage
• Way too strict for
developers
• Hard to maintain and
Managed
• Not consistent
between On-prem and
Office 365
• Not Scalable
SP Code
Sandboxed
Custom Code
App code
(client or
server)
SP Code
Isolated App
client-side
code
• Host/language
independent
• Management and update
easily doable per app
• Encourages reusability
• No server-side sandbox,
improved CSOM

9. Solution Evolution Demo

10. • Full Trust and Sandbox Solutions
• Developers have the full control with no any security
measurement.
• The Sandbox solution is deprecated in SharePoint 2013
• Neither is cloud friendly. But sandbox solutions can be deploy
to the cloud (with some more limitations).
• Lots of potential for outages and failures. Not a sustainable
model.
Demo Recap

11. • SharePoint Add-ins
• Cloud friendly and On-premise friendly
• Integrate cloud-based resources in smoother and more
flexible ways.
• Easier to upgrade.
• Leverage existing non-SharePoint programming skills.
• Enable your extension to have permissions that are distinct
from the permissions of the user who is running the add-in.
• Enable you to use cross-platform standards, including HTML,
REST, OData, JavaScript, and OAuth.
Demo Recap

12. So what can you do?

13. _api
REST/
OData
Search BCS
SharePoint Client APIs

14. Office 365 REST API’s

15. .app file extension—a package typically includes the following files:
AppManifest.xml
AppIcon.png
Solution file
Data tier application package
Auto hosted apps
Office Store
App catalogs
App Hosting Options

16. App Hosting Options

17. App Hosting Options

18. SharePoint Hosted Add-ins

19. SharePoint Hosted Add-ins
https://Apps-12345678ABCDEF.eps.com/App1Name/Pages/Default.aspx
https:// /appname/etcAppPrefix-UniqueID.appdomain

20. Provider-Hosted Add-ins

21. • High Trust (S2S)
Provider-Hosted Add-ins

22. • Low Trust (ACS)
Provider-Hosted Add-ins

23. Add-in Deployment

24. Add-in Deployment

25. Add-in Demo

26. • SharePoint App/Add-in Model is cloud friendly and great for on
premise
• Understand the differences between SharePoint-hosted Add-ins
and Provider-hosted Add-ins
• Leverage Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices
• Read a lot
In Summary

27. Questions
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28. • Patterns and Practices
• http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• http://dev.office.com/training
• Code Samples
• http://dev.office.com/code-samples
• Office 365 Summit Developer Tracks
• http://summit.office.com
Links and Resources

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30. Thank you!
Brian Culver, MCM
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