
Open the project in Visual Studio Code by entering the following text on the command line from within the same folder where you ran the generator: code. Visual Studio Code is a great tool to help you develop your custom Office Add-ins for Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, regardless of whether the Add-ins run in web clients, Windows clients, iOS clients or on macOS! Getting started Use Visual Studio Code to develop your Office Add-in The following table lists the project attributes to select in the Yeoman generator. Create a new Office Add-in projectįirst follow the instructions to Create an Office Add-in using any editor to install the necessary prerequisites, and use the Yeoman generator yo office to create a new add-in project. The Office application takes care of hosting it within Office. Using a manifest.xml file, you tell the Office application where your web app is located and how you want it to appear.



Under the hood, an Office Add-in is just a web app that you can host anywhere. Office Add-ins run inside an Office application and can interact with contents of the Office document using the rich JavaScript API. Configure IntelliSense for cross-compilingĮdit Office Add-ins with Visual Studio Code.
