Slide deck by Nilesh Shah for Excel Custom Functions programming at C# Corner Toronto chapter Feb 2019 meetup

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C# Corner Toronto Chapter
Sponsored By:
• Award winning Architecture / Design firm
• Specializes in serving residential
development industry

3. ▪ Theme:
▪ Get inspired by the latest Excel extensibility features
▪ Make developers aware about MS Excel programming capabilities
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4. ▪ Introduction:
▪ Excel Custom Functions
▪ Streaming Functions
▪ Setup and Pre-requisites
▪ Distribution
▪ Demo
▪ Script Lab
▪ Yo Office Generator
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6. ▪ Add new functions to Excel
▪ Programs written in JS
▪ User access same as native functions
▪ Currently in preview
▪ Needs special edition of Excel
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8. ▪ Output data repeatedly without refresh
▪ setResult callback used to return result
▪ Refresh interval defined in setInterval
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10. Streaming
custom
functions
Custom
functions
Functions
How custom functions create opportunity for Excel developers, resellers and end-users

11. ▪ Developers
▪ Sideload directly on the device
▪ Public
▪ AppSource
▪ Organizations
▪ Centralized Deployment
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12. ▪ Pre-req:
▪ Office 365 Dev Program
▪ Office Insider release
▪ Custom functions requirements
▪ Script Lab
▪ Yo Office generator
▪ aka.ms/yooffice
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13. ▪ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev-program
▪ My blog: Introducing O365 Dev Program
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14. ▪ https://insider.office.com/en-us/join
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15. ▪ Refer Office Insider Handbook
▪ Download the latest version of the Office Deployment Tool
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16. ▪ Office 365 Developer Program
▪ https://aka.ms/officedevprogram
▪ Script Lab
▪ https://aka.ms/getscriptlab
▪ Custom Functions
▪ https://aka.ms/customfunctions
▪ Excel JS API Open spec
▪ https://aka.ms/excel-js-open-spec
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