Javascript Support in Office 365 APIs

Looking at the Office 365 API Preview, I came across this sentence in the Discovery Service section.
"Currently, the Discovery Service APIs are available in a .NET C# managed portable library that can be used by Native, Windows Store, and Windows Phone apps."
If the Office 365 APIs will only be available when fully released as C# libraries that is a huge problem, especially if you want Windows Store App Developers to write apps that utilize data from it, even OData. There is a very large section of that dev community
that write in JavaScript and you will essentially be ignoring and/or cutting off that whole segment of that community if you do. One of the great things about the Windows 8 App dev platform is that a developer can use (almost) any language that he/she is comfortable
with, that HTML/Javascript and C#/XAML live, breath and thrive together. Unfortunately, it seems that the SharePoint product teams only are able to write in C#.
It has been quite a struggle to write apps that utilize the SharePoint 2013 product line (on-prem, online, Project Online, etc) as a HTML/Javsacript Windows Store App developer, especially around authentication. No samples exist. The C# samples that do exist
utilize coding methods that are very specific to how one would developer on the SharePoint platform before the new "app" dev model came about, which aren't necessarily the correct or appropriate ways that a Windows 8 developer would/should do things.
It's like they didn't even bother to learn about the axioms and dev principals for Windows 8 Store Apps or worse didn't talk to their colleagues on the Windows Dev team.
I write in both HTML/JavaScript and C#/XAML, which is not a common practice. However, when I am writing Windows 8 Store apps, HTML/JavaScript is the language that I prefer. It is just easier to get some of the more advance design things done in that language
combination then in C#/XAML I have found. I have been holding off releasing some of my apps because I want to support O365/SharePoint Online/Project Online with them. If these new libraries are only going to be C#, then my apps just won't support O365. I would
hope though that going forward that more support would be given to this large section of your customer community.
Regards,
Christine Flora

Not sure if you've done a lot of work trying to get OData out of Office 365 / SharePoint Online or Project Online or done any Windows 8 development, but you must authenticate before you can even get TO the OData endpoints. So yes, the REST Endpoints are
accessible by using an httpClient call from within Javascript, if in fact you can authenticate and authorize first.
Currently this is a big pain in the backside, even if using C#, but from JavaScript it is almost impossible. Even now some of the current/popular methods for doing so can open big security holes on a Win8 machine (ie: running a claims service on your Win8
machine locally just to authenticate to name just one). I was hoping / am hoping that the new APIs will help with that, but I am not at all encouraged by what I am seeing and hearing so far especially since it looks like from the quote I provided above
that they will only be available if you are using C#. As I pointed out, a large part of the Win8 App Dev community using JavaScript.
I want to put it out there that I truly hope that the SharePoint product teams take this into consideration as they work on these new APIs and other ways to extend the SharePoint App family.
Christine

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Best Regards,
Edward
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Questions About Office 365 Capabilities

I am exploring the possibility of putting our organization's Office on, "the cloud" using Office 365 Enterprise E2. I have some questions that are important. Any help will be appreciate.
1. I have developed extensive VBA "code behind" on Word files and Excel workbooks that do complex operations. For instance, I open our Outlook public folder shared contacts to do searches and populate forms and Excel cells.
I use NPOI calls to create downloadable Excel workbooks, etc. I use calls to SQL to access and query databases and return data. Is the VBA coding supported with Office 365? If so, what restrictions might there be over my current situation,
where Exchange and Office are hosted on our servers?
2. In general, what restrictions will I encounter with Exchange and Office being hosted by Microsoft, versus these tools being hosted on our servers?
Again, crucial questions and I appreciate any help. Thanks.
Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry Richmond, Virginia www.goodnewsjail.org

Hi,
Please try to use your account which logon in the Technet to sign in the Office 365 forum.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/default.aspx
And your issues were more related to coding/programming, you'd better post them to MSND forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=officedev&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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