OfficeGSX/Excel-Add-In-TS-Start

Learn how to convert Visual Studio Excel JavaScript add-in template to TypeScript.

TypeScripting Visual Studio Excel JavaScript add-in template

Learn how to convert Visual Studio Excel JavaScript add-in template to TypeScript.

Table of Contents

• Change history
• Prerequisites
• Run the add-in
• Questions and comments
• Additional resources

Change history

December 2016:

• Initial version.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2015 or later.

• Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio

• Cumulative Servicing Release for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)

• TypeScript 2.1 for Visual Studio 2015 after installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.

  Note: For more information about installing TypeScript 2.1, see Announcing TypeScript 2.1.

• Excel 2016.

Run the add-in

1. Open the project's *.sln file in Visual Studio.
2. Press F5.
3. After Excel launches, press the Show Taskpane button on the Home ribbon.
4. Select all the cells with numbers.
5. Press the Highlight button on the taskpane.

Questions and comments

We'd love to get your feedback about this sample. You can send your feedback to us in the Issues section of this repository.

Questions about Microsoft Office 365 development in general should be posted to Stack Overflow. If your question is about the Office JavaScript APIs, make sure that your questions are tagged with [office-js] and [API].

Additional resources

• Office add-in documentation
• Office Dev Center
• More Office Add-in samples at OfficeDev on Github

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.