Killer Combos: SharePoint, Project Siena and Windows 8 Apps

#SPSBE18Jan TielensApril 26th, 2014

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Why Apps?

What kind of Apps?

Ok, got it! How do I start?

Project Siena

Visual Studio

* There are many more, but I’ll cover these today.

Your options to create apps *

A Windows Store application that empowers: Business experts Business analysts Consultants Other app “imagineers”

to create a new category of modern, purpose-specific mobile apps that enable new business scenarios for employees and customers, without requiring any programming skills

What is Project Siena (beta)?

Since December 19, 2013 (beta release)

“Perfect app to build apps. My 9-year-old son started building without any help.”

“The best tool found so far to make an app within a few minutes.”

“This is SICK… and I mean in a GOOD way… I am all over this.”

“This app really puts the power of app creation into the hands of business users. If you know Excel, you know how to use Project Siena.”

Highest-rated Microsoft app in the store!

Project Siena principles• PowerPoint like simple editing experience• Excel-expression-like syntax for business logic• Easily connects to multiple Data Sources • Creates a regular Windows 8 app (HTML5/JS/CSS)

Getting started with Project Siena

demo

A developer tool (replacement for Visual Studio) A means creating mission-critical transactional

applications A silver-bullet solution for all business scenarios

What Project Siena is not

Data sources include…

Azure Mobile Services Bing Search

Excel Bing Translator

REST Facebook

SharePoint Yammer

RSS

Connecting to SharePoint

demo

Publishing a Siena App

• Click on File > Publish to publish• Provide a Display Name, Tile fill color, Tile icon• Select “Download and include images” if you want

to embed the images, video and other media along with your application

• Click Publish and select a folder where the published package would be saved.

Installing a Siena App

• Use the built-in InstallApp.exe utility• Select “Install on this PC”

OR• “Create and appx file for sharing”• Provide Microsoft Account credentials if developer

license is not applied already

Deploying the App

demo

The sky is the limit .

Typical concern: authentication.

Using Visual Studio

Get the preview: http://aka.ms/office365apitoolspreview

Blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2014/03/12/announcing-office-365-api-tools-for-visual-studio-preview.aspx

Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio

In your Windows 8 App projects:

Add Office 365 as a Connected Service

How to use it?

Using the Office 365 API’s

demo

Thank you!