Archive for February 2017

Returning other types of data like HTML via JavaScript Azure Functions

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a simple Office add-in which just added a custom add-in command. An add-in command only requires that you specify an URL to a page / HTML file to make it work. As it would be overkill to create a website for just that one file, I thought about using an HTTPTrigger Azure Function to return me the necessary HTML for my command.

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Automate publishing of your SharePoint Framework solution package deployment

This article is an addition to my previous one about how to automate the publication process of your JavaScript file to Office 365 public CDN. Related article: Automate publishing of your SharePoint Framework scripts to Office 365 public CDN Not long after I had published my previous article, I got the following question on Twitter:

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Automate publishing of your SharePoint Framework scripts to Office 365 public CDN

Last year Microsoft announce the Office 365 public CDN capability. This is CDN option from Office 365 is a great way for you to host your assets like images or JavaScript files. Most important, this is probably the easiest option for publishing your SharePoint Framework client-side web part assets. This is because it does not require you to setup anything on Azure.

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How to define add-in commands in an Outlook module

In January, a colleague and I built our first Outlook module. With the Outlook module extensibility, which was announced at Build 2016, you can create your own applications/modules inside the Outlook client. By default, you have mail, calendar, tasks, but now you have also the ability to put other applications in it.

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