Thanks to Jeremy Thake for the heads up, but I thought I would repost this here to alert some of the Project Server community that build apps for SharePoint and Project Server and read this blog. Microsoft have launched a public UserVoice community to collaborate on feedback for the SharePoint app model moving forward. If you’re not familiar with UserVoice, it allows you to submit ideas and vote & comment on other user ideas.

Tech Ed Australia is being held on the Gold Coast between the 3rd and 6th September this year. I am happy to announce I will be speaking at Tech Ed Australia this year with my partner in crime, Mr Brian Farnhill with an awesome session entitled…. The SharePoint 2013 App Playbook – Your Guide to Building and Publishing a Great App Office 2013 has brought an amazing new platform for developers to take advantage of, in the format of apps and the online app store.

After a month long holiday, it’s time to resume normal blog service and share some EPM goodness. I I have a couple of posts that I am working on at the moment, but in the meantime here are few gems that you should find useful Developing Project Server apps walkthrough Following on from my series covering the building the Publish All Enterprise Project app, Microsoft have released an official walk through to build a Project Server app over at http://msdn.

In this post, we will take our app that we built in Napa and successfully tested and export it out to Visual Studio to enhance the app, specifically we are going to add a ribbon button so our app can be invoked directly from the PWA ribbon. Exporting the Napa solution out to Visual Studio Whilst Napa is a great tool, at the moment it is not possible to add a CustomUI Action at present, so we need to use Visual Studio.

In this second post covering how to build an app for Project Server to publish all projects, we will take a look at a new component of Project Server, the JavaScript Object Model or JSOM. In the past when you wished to interact with Project Server the only real option you had would be to use the PSI, or Project Server Interface, a set of API’s that could be called that would perform tasks within the project server instance like reading a project, creating a resource, or adding a job to the queue.

In this first post on how to build an app for Project Server to publish all projects, we will look at setting up your development environment. Before we start, for the purpose of these posts we are going to leverage an Office 365 based Project Online tenant. Using Office 365 takes away some of the pain of setting up your own server environment and can be provisioned in a fraction of the time.

One of the many exciting additions to Office 2013 was the introduction of apps, through these apps it is possible to add, extend and enhance the functionality available to users, for example you could have an app to help track election results, add Facebook social to your sites or build workflows. The apps themselves are available for a number of the desktop clients, as well as SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013.