Development

When building Office web applications and add-ins there comes the time where they are ready for release. What's good for development however, isn't necessarily leading to best performance. Luckily using Gulp you can pretty easily improve your solution's performance.

Connecting your Office solutions to LOB adds complexity and often requires server-side code. What if you could leverage Azure API Apps to connect your Single Page Applications to LOB?

Bower allows you to manage client-side dependencies for your web applications. A common practice is not to include them in source control. So how do you deploy them together with your web application to Azure Web Apps?

Azure Web Apps support a number of services for continuous deployment. One of them is a Git repository to which you can push your changes and which are automatically deployed to your Azure Web App. Did you know however that you can leverage your existing Gulp tasks in that deployment process to deploy the release version of your web application?

Recently Microsoft updated the Group Files API. One of the improvements is the ability to easily get the URL of the library where your Group's files are stored. Here is how to do it.