Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

David Claux from Microsoft joins to introduce Adaptive Cards to the podcast. Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way. (And Paul is a big fan.) The discussion covers why Adaptive Cards were created, common scenarios and future plans.

• http://ngrok.io

• Build 2019

• Count tabs of each type in Teams

Eric Harlan joins to talk about the community site for SharePoint and related technologies. Eric has spent a decade (10 years!) supporting the community efforts around the world and shares his insights and some history.

The conversation also includes the Call To Action for SPSEvents.org.

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• Microsoft Flow licensing

• Azure B2C

• Create a Custom Flow Connector for the Microsoft Graph

Paul is joined by Nikola Metulev of the Devices and Experiences group to talk about the Windows Community Toolkit and how it can accelerate development of modern Windows application. Nikola also shares some of the ideas for the future of the toolkit, including integration ideas for other Microsoft 365 platforms.

Windows Community Toolkit: 

- GitHub: https://github.com/windows-toolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit

- Sample Application: http://aka.ms/uwptoolkitapp

Microsoft Graph Community Call - 5th Feb

• Sebesatian Levert - Bot Framework & Cortana

Create a Microsoft Teams Group Calendar tab application using the Graph API and FullCalendar JavaScript library

• Glen Scales

Paul catches up with Bill Ayers about the Live!360 conference, developing for Office and Microsoft Graph and a little discussion about mobile development.

Microsoft News

• Subscription lifetime changes for Outlook resources

Community News

• Alexa + Azure Functions + Microsoft Graph = a smarter assistant!

This week, Paul Schaeflein talks to Eric Shupps about enterprise development in Microsoft 365.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-virtual-assistant-introduction?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/microsoft-graph-documentation-has-a-fresh-new-look/

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/join-in-the-microsoft-graph-security-hackathon/

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/announcing-30-days-of-microsoft-graph-blog-series/#

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/microsoft-graph-community-call-december-4-2018/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Accelerate-your-Microsoft-Teams-adoption-journey-with-our-Teams/ba-p/301818

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/site-scripts-site-designs-fall-2018-update/

Jeremy Thake talks to Brian Jacket on the 30 days of Microsoft Graph blog series. He talks about the dotnet core sample and the challenges he faced spinning up the cross Microsoft and external collaboration!

• 30 days of Microsoft Graph blog series

This week Jeremy Thake talks to Luca Bandinelli (Principal Program Manager) and Pat Miller (Principal Engineering Manager) about the SharePoint Framework. They go into detail about its history and how the extensibility story evolved over time from Farm Solutions, through Sandbox Solutions, add-in model and SPFx. They cover off the reasons why they have released the Isolated Web Parts and the scenarios it is fit best for.

• SharePoint Isolated Web Parts

Jeremy Thake talks to Anthony Leibovitz and Lei Xu who are responsible for the beta Notifications service on Microsoft Graph. They talk about the scenario, how it came about and what the sweet spot is right now this can be used by Microsoft Graph developers.

• Graph Notifications Feedback [email protected]

• Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams

• Grant API Permissions with Office 365 CLI

• Reponse re: React 16: Verification guidance SharePoint Online moves to react 16

• 30 days of Microsoft Graph : Postman

Paul and Jeremy catch up this week to talk about the Microsoft Office 365 Bootcamps, the UserVoice process for the Microsoft Graph team and bunch of other hair brained ideas!

New App registrations experience now in public preview

Announcing “30 Days of Microsoft Graph” Blog Series

Creating a Bot for Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Flow

Bring your apps to more places with new SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Teams releases

Jeremy Thake talks to Abram Jackson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, about Microsoft Graph data connect. Data connect opens up all sorts of scenarios across Microsoft 365 user data. They talk about the differences in this access pattern vs Microsoft Graph API. The common scenarios that come up and how this all come about.

• Microsoft Graph data connect documentation

• Developing insight applications with Office 365 data and Microsoft Azure (Deep dive on Microsoft Graph data connect) – THR3142 – Tyler Lenig