As part of the 2015 BUILD conference, Microsoft announced a series of new tools for Office developers.
They are new and updated API’s (Application Program Interface) which let developers work with software or a web service. For example a OneDrive or DropBox API lets a separate program directly save, read and move files from online storage.
One Endpoint to rule them all
Until now, Office 365 development has been in a muddle with different access points into the system. Now Microsoft has fixed that to make a single endpoint for Office 365 (graph.microsoft.com)
From graph.microsoft.com developers should be able to login once for the user and access the customers details and data in one place. User information, files, groups, sites, mail, calendar and other Office 365 data all available via a single login and API endpoint. Developers can checkout the preview of this new world at http://dev.office.com/unifiedAPIs
There’s also a new Office 365 Developers Program with online training, email newsletters and a free Office 365 developer account to play in.
The new Skype Developer Platform will let programmers integrate Skype features directly into their software or web services. These tools work within the browser and should not require Skype software to be installed separately. Details at developer.skype.com