What type of project do you want to create?.What is the root folder where this project should be created?.

The generator will ask you a few questions such as: To run the generator, simply create a new empty folder, change directory into that folder and enter the following in the command line: Npm install -g generator-office Running the Office Generator You also get this from the NPM registry: generator-office: That will download & install Yeoman and bower and all it’s dependencies. Open a command line and install it globally like this: Yeoman is distributed using the Node Package Manager, NPM. Head over to and download the distrbution for your system. Yeoman is built on Node.js so you first need to get node installed. But it isn’t limited to that as you’ll it is useful to those on Windows as well! This means developers who are on Linux or OSX can have the same getting started experience. The output is basically the same thing Visual Studio would give you. You can think of this as a replacement for the File => New Project dialog in Visual Studio. Yeoman will then ask you a few questions based on the generator and then create your project scaffolding for you. From there, its as simple as going to the command line and typing yo. After installing Yeoman, developers can download and install one of the 1,500+ other generators out there. Today we are excited to announce a Yeoman generator for building Office Add-ins! Yeoman is a project scaffolding tool popular in the open source space. After coding the add-in, pressing F5: deploys the manifest to the appropriate add-in catalog in the Developer tenant runs the web application in IIS and runs the local Office client or web client based on the selection the developer made.īut Visual Studio 2013/2015 is only available to developers on Windows… it could be done manually ofcourse, but this wasn’t the best experience… until today Developers can easily create Office Add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word and other Office applications by simply using the familiar File => New Project dialog and answer a few questions. When building Office Add-ins developers are provided first-rate tooling with Visual Studio 2013/2015.

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