Leverage Office 365 APIs in your Web and Mobile Apps

Senthil Kumar, Microsoft MVP – Windows Platform Development

Technical Lead, Trivium eSolutions

Agenda

• What is Office 365 ?

• Office 365 and Developers

• Getting Started with the Office 365 API

• Integrate Office 365 API in .NET Application

• Demo

WHAT IS OFFICE 365 ?

Office 2013 development options

DEMO

OFFICE 365 API

Robust Office 365 APIs

Why Do These REST APIs Matter?

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What REST API’s are available?

• .NET SDK to build many types of apps using Visual Studio.NET Windows Store Apps

Windows Forms Application

WPF Application

ASP.NET MVC Web Application

ASP.NET Web Forms Application

Xamarin Android and iOS Applications

Multi-device Hybrid Apps (Cordova)

• Android SDK & iOS SDK’s

• Permissions– Read, Read+Write, Send

• Entities, Collections, Actions

• Samples– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Folders/Inbox/

– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Folders/Inbox/Messages?$top=1

– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/SendMail/

You’ve got Mail!

Entity Collection Actions

Folder Folders CRUD, Copy, Move

Message Messages

CRUD, Copy, Move, Reply, ReplyAll, Forward, Send, CreateReply,CreateReplyAll, CreateForward

Attachment Attachments CRUD

• Permissions– Read, Read+Write

• Entities, Collections, Actions

• Samples– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Calendar

– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Calendar/Events?$top=1

– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/CalendarView?startDateTime=2014-10-01T01:01:01Z & endDateTime=2014-11-01T01:01:01Z

Calendar – Coffee with a Friend @ 6 ?

Entity Collection Actions

CalendarGroup CalendarGroups CRUD

Calendar Calendars CRUD

Event EventsCRUD, Accept, Decline, TentativelyAccept

CalendarView N/A Read

Attachment Attachments CRUD

• Permissions– Read, Read+Write

• Entities, Collections, Actions

• Samples– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/ContactFolders(‘Contacts’)

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– https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Contacts/

Contacts – Your number again?

Entity Collection Actions

ContactFolder ContactFolders

Contact Contacts CRUD

• Permissions– Read, Read+Write

• Entities, Collections, Actions

• Samples– https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/_api/v1.0/me/drive

– https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/_api/v1.0/me/files

Files API

Entity Collection Actions

Drive Read

File Files CRUD, Upload, Download

Folder CRUD

DEMO

Resources

• Channel 9 MSDN

http://channel9.msdn.com/

• Office 365 IT Resources

https://products.office.com/en-in/business/office-365-it-resources

• Office Dev Center

http://dev.office.com/