Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

Jeremy talks with Ayca Bas (@aycabs) from the Microsoft Cloud Advocate team, to share her experience with the developer platform for Microsoft 365.

Links from the show:

• Ayca's blog
• Ayca on GitHub

Microsoft News

• Fluid Framework is now open source
• Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces
• Project Bicep - an ARM DSL
• Bicep Playground
• Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Graph change notifications delivery via Azure Event Hubs
• Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamps

Community Links

• Deploy and run your own Fluid Framework service
• Solving Real Time Collaboration Using Eventual Consistency
• Use SPFx for Task Modules in Teams Messaging Extensions and access Microsoft Graph
• The MailboxConcurrency limit and using Batching in the Microsoft Graph API

Jeremy Thake talks to Dan Wahlin this week about the open sourcing of the Fluid Framework.

Read the blog announcement Fluid Framework is now open sourced

Visit FluidFramework.com

Try the Fluid Framework Playground.

Eric Shupps talks with Paul about writing and publishing connectors for the Power Platform. Eric discusses architecture patterns, hosting options and the process for getting connectors published in the eco-system.

Links from the show:

• Connectors documentation
• apptigent PowerTools

Microsoft News

• Four new ways to simplify your work with Microsoft Teams and Power Automate
• Trigger flows from any message in Microsoft Teams

Jeremy and Paul are joined by Rohit Jaiswal to introduce the new To Do APIs on Microsoft Graph. Rohit explains this initial beta release and covers additional scenarios on the roadmap.

Links from the show:

• The new & improved Microsoft Graph To Do APIs are now in Public Preview
• To Do API overview (preview)
• Use the Microsoft To Do API

Microsoft News

• Termstore API on Microsoft Graph beta
• Azure SDK: What’s new in the Azure Identity August 2020 General Availability Release

Community Links

• VS Code Rest Client: Add support for Microsoft Identity Platform aka Azure ActiveDirectory V2 (@darrel_miller)
• Adding support for theme variants in SPFx web parts (@bernierh)
• Using MSAL.js 2.0 in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) (@Moeller2_0)
• MSAL+SPFx discussion

Bob German returns to the show to talk with Paul about his experiences in helping partners bring applications to Microsoft Teams.

Links from the show:

• https://aka.ms/pnpteams

Isabella Lubin from the Microsoft Teams product group joins to talk about the Microsoft Teams Toolkit and new APIs that help developers build and public applications on Microsoft Teams.

Links from the show:

• Build apps with the Microsoft Teams Toolkit and Visual Studio Code
• Let your users skip sign-in with Single Sign-On support for Microsoft Teams tabs
• Frictionless app development and enablement with the new Teams App Submission API

Microsoft News

• Securing Azure environments with Azure Active Directory
• A Closer Look at Data Platform Capabilities in Dataflex for Teams
• Introducing new privacy controls with the Microsoft Graph
• Announcing General Availability of Single Sign-On (SSO) for Office Add-ins

Community Links

• Handling authentication in custom Teams tabs using Microsoft Graph Toolkit - Ayca Bas (aycabs)
• Flicon (@thechriskent)

Waldek Mastykarz returns to catch us up on the (soon-to-be-called) Microsoft 365 CLI. Waldek discusses updates since his last visit and use-cases for developers and non-developers alike.

Links from the show:

• Office 365 CLI
• Waldek's blog

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell Image
• Best practices for discovering files and detecting changes at scale

Community Links

• Subscribing to Teams Presence with Graph API using Power Platform
• Use the CSOM Library in your ASP.NET Core apps (@yp_code)
• Four things to know and five things to do following the big Microsoft Dataflex + Teams announcement (@andrewdwelch)

Dewain Robinson and Gary Pretty from Microsoft talk with Paul about the recently released Bot Virtual Agent. Dewain and Gary cover the Virtual Assistant & Skills solution accelerator and the updated tools (Bot Composer and Dialog Generation) that support their development.

Links from the show:

• Bot Framework Composer
• Virtual Assisstant Solution Accelerator
• Dialog Generation
• Conversational AI Build session
• Alexa on Azure Bot Service

Microsoft News

• Breaking changes for Microsoft Teams beta APIs – permissions for installing personal apps, removing unused properties from code snippets
• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.11: Extend more of Microsoft Teams, and publish to AppSource
• Duration of change tracking tokens for identity and education resources
• Microsoft Graph Schema extensions is now available in US Government Clouds
• MSAL.js 2.0 is now generally available with support for authorization code flow

Community Links

• Azure Tips and Tricks - Power Virtual Agents (@mbcrump)

Paul talks with Thomy Gölles about his use of Blazor to create Tabs in Microsoft Teams. The discussion goes beyond the Blazor technology, diving into the system architecture and design considerations Thomy used to create the application behind the Tab.

Links from the show:

• PnP Call with the demo
• Event videos:
  • Build 2020: Modern Web UI with Blazor WebAssembly
  • .Net Conf - Focus on Blazor: Welcome to Blazor
  • .Net Conf - Focus on Blazor: Blazor for Web Form and C# Developers
  • .Net Conf - Focus on Blazor:Build Serverless Apps with Blazor
• GitHub repos:
  • Awesome Blazor - a collection of awesome Blazor resources
  • BlazorFluentUI: Simple port of Fluent UI (formerly Office Fabric) React components and style to Blazor
  • eShopOnBlazor: Migration of a traditional ASP.NET Web Forms app to Blazor
• Jeffery Fritz
• SELECTEDTECH
• Thomy's blog

Jeremy and Paul are joined by Nik Molnar (@nikmd23) to discuss Codespaces - a new offering from Visual Studio. Nik provides insights into the service and covers its role in a developer's toolbox.

Links from the show:

• Visual Studio Codespaces
• Docs
• Build Session
• GitHub Codespaces signup
• VS+Win signup
• Ballpack Tracker

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Graph presence subscription API
• Microsoft Graph community call-July 7, 2020
• A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 15

Community Links

• A Microsoft Teams Messaging Extension with Authentication and access to Microsoft Graph (@Moeller2_0)
• Using Visual StudioCodespaces for SPFx development
• SPFx in Codespaces - Trust the dev cert