From the course: Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers
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Deploying and debugging
From the course: Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers
Deploying and debugging
- [Instructor] We're still using the default PowerPoint content add-in project. Let's see what happens when we try to run it. I'm going to click on start or I could use F5. PowerPoint starts up with a blank document and the content add-in already loaded. Visual Studio is using IIS Express to serve that website and then starting up PowerPoint and sideloading the add-in. You may get a certificate warning the first time you do this which you can just click through. The add-in can be moved, resized, et cetera, just like any content in the PowerPoint slide. We can now add some content to the slide. I'm going to select it and then if I click on the get data from selection button in the add-in, it will show up in that notification area. This isn't a very exciting example, but we can use it to see how we can use Visual Studio to debug the add-in. Let's put a breakpoint into the code. I'm going to go back to Visual Studio. Go to Solution Explorer and open home js and then we'll add a…
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