Programming Microsoft Office 365

824 Pages·2016·35.52 MB·English

by  Paolo Pialorsi

Programming Microsoft Office 365
Covers Microsoft Graph, Office 365 applications,
SharePoint Add-ins, Office 365 Groups, and more
Paolo Pialorsi
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Copyright © 2016 by Paolo Pialorsi
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This book is dedicated to my family: Paola,
Andrea, and Marta. I love you!
—PAOLO PIALORSI
Contents at a glance
Introduction
PART I GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 1 Microsoft Office 365: A quick tour
CHAPTER 2 Overview of Office 365 development
PART II OFFICE 365 PROGRAMMING MODEL
CHAPTER 3 Microsoft Graph API reference
CHAPTER 4 Azure Active Directory and security
PART III CONSUMING OFFICE 365
CHAPTER 5 Mail, calendar, and contact services
CHAPTER 6 Users and Groups services
CHAPTER 7 File services
CHAPTER 8 Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET
CHAPTER 9 SharePoint REST API
PART IV SHAREPOINT AND OFFICE APPS
CHAPTER 10 Creating Office 365 applications
CHAPTER 11 Overview of Office Add-ins
CHAPTER 12 Publishing your applications and add-ins
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I GETTING STARTED
Chapter 1 Microsoft Office 365: A quick tour
What is Microsoft Office 365?
Microsoft Office 365 services
Microsoft Office on PC/Mac and Click-to-Run
Licensing and subscription plans
Administration in Office 365
The new Office 365 Admin Center
The classic Office 365 Admin Center
Summary
Chapter 2 Overview of Office 365 development
Setting up your development environment
Setting up an Office 365 developer tenant
Configuring your development machine
Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices tools
Preparing for the SharePoint Framework
Office 365 applications development
Web applications
Native applications
Office 365 Connectors
SharePoint online development
SharePoint Add-ins
Remote timer jobs for SharePoint
Remote event receivers
Remote provisioning
Office client development
Summary
PART II OFFICE 365 PROGRAMMING MODEL
Chapter 3 Microsoft Graph API reference
What is the Microsoft Graph API?
Microsoft Graph API metadata
Consuming users and security groups
Yourself and other users
Security groups
Consuming mail, contacts, and calendars
Mail messages
Contacts
Calendars and events
Event invitations
Consuming OneDrive for Business
Querying files and folders
Managing files and folders
Searching within a drive
Sharing files and folders
Working with Office 365 Groups
Summary
Chapter 4 Azure Active Directory and security
Introducing Azure Active Directory
Identities in Azure AD
Managing Office 365 identities
Configuring apps and services in Azure AD
Manual configuration
Multitenancy
Using Microsoft Visual Studio
Understanding OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0
The OpenID Connect communication flow
Under the cover of OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0
Active Directory Authentication Library
Using ADAL in an ASP.NET MVC web application
Summary
PART III CONSUMING OFFICE 365
Chapter 5 Mail, calendar, and contact services
Setting up the environment
Mail services
Reading folders, messages, and attachments
Sending an email message
Reply, reply all, and forward email messages
Calendar services
Reading calendars and events
Browsing calendar views
Managing series of events
Creating and updating events
Managing invitations for meeting requests
Contact services
Reading contacts
Managing contacts
Summary
Chapter 6 Users and Groups services
Users services
Reading users
Groups services
Browsing groups
Managing groups
Managing group membership
Office 365 Groups services
Querying Office 365 Groups
Office 365 Groups capabilities
Creating or updating Office 365 Groups
Summary
Chapter 7 File services
Working with drives, files, and folders
Browsing for files and folders
Consuming files
Uploading and updating files
Permissions and sharing
Managing files permissions
Sharing a file
Summary
Chapter 8 Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET
Introduction to the Microsoft Graph SDK
Registering the app and using the SDK
Request model
Querying resources
Basic query operations
Handling paging of collections
Managing resources
Adding a resource to a collection
Updating a resource
Deleting a resource
Handling exceptions and concurrency
Real-life examples
Sending an email
Searching for Office 365 Groups
Handling content of Office 365 Groups
Managing current user’s photo
Managing current user’s manager and direct reports
Uploading a file to OneDrive for Business
Searching for files in OneDrive for Business