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Create an add-in with Visual Studio

Create an add-in with Visual Studio

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Create an add-in with Visual Studio

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- [Instructor] In the last module, we introduced web Add-ins for Microsoft Office. There are a number of tools available for Add-in development. We saw a tool called Script Lab. Script Lab is great for trying out an idea, doing a bit of prototyping, or just learning what Add-ins can do. I should mention that there used to be an online tool called Napa and you might see that mentioned in some older blogs and training materials, but it's been retired. But Script Lab isn't the only tool we can use to build Add-ins. When it comes to serious development, we want to use a proper development tool, particularly where we want to make something that we can test and deploy. The premier tool for building Add-ins is Visual Studio, and the support is very good. We're going to look at how to build Add-ins with Visual Studio in this module, and later, we'll look at some of the open source web tooling that is another option, especially if you're not already a regular user of Visual Studio. On my…

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