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Apps for SharePoint

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Apps for SharePoint

Apps for SharePoint provide users with a consistent way to discover, acquire, and get new capabilities. They are versatile, reusable, and scalable. Design your apps as widgets, extend the SharePoint interface, or provide a full immersive experience to users.

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Build apps with your existing skills, using familiar languages and your favorite web development tools. Use any hosting services to run and deploy your app. You can sign up for a free, 30-day trial of Microsoft Office 365 Developer and build an app using the Napa tools!

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Why create apps for SharePoint?

Use your existing skills to build apps and take advantage of familiar tools, languages, and hosting services. You can use any language, such as HTML, JavaScript, PHP, or .NET, and you can use your favorite web development tools, including Visual Studio, and a new web-based tool, "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools.

Use any hosting services to run and deploy your app. You can connect your app with just about any internal or public web services. Take advantage of the new OAuth 2.0 support in SharePoint, and use the REST and JavaScript and .NET client APIs to integrate and connect your app with SharePoint.

Deploy, update, and maintain your apps faster in the cloud. Publish and distribute IT approved apps within your organization using an internal app catalog, or sell your apps in the Office Store.

Connect to the largest install base of users for any productivity services so your app will be exposed to the largest potential audience possible.