The Excel API

- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to look at Excel.…In some ways this offers the richest possibilities…for extension because we can use it to drive…some very sophisticated data driven solutions…and powerful graphics.…In addition we have the option to create custom functions…which we'll look at later.…If we go to dev.office.com and find our way…to the getting started or the quick start for Excel…and I'm going to go to build your first Excel add-in…and it actually gives us a number of choices.…

Do I want to use Angular, jQuery, React, or Vue.…It's quite interesting, if I choose React…you can see it's sending me down the path…of using npm to install the generator and so on.…So if I go down this path I'm using…the modern web development tool chain.…Alternatively, if we back up and look at jQuery,…you'll see that it's recommending Visual Studio.…

There's another tab here that says…for going down the npm route,…but we can use Visual Studio and create the add-in that way.…And that's the way the tutorial,…or one of the options for setting up this tutorial.…