Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

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

Jeremy and Paul talk with Micah Godbolt from Microsoft about the FluentUI project and the various libraries they publish.

Links from the show:

• Fluent UI
• Fluent UI on GitHub

Microsoft News

• .NET Standard version of SharePoint Online CSOM APIs
• Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure

Community Links

• Connect to Application Insights and Log Analytics with Direct Query in Power BI
• Configure your Azure AD application with Integration assistant

Lincoln DeMaris from Microsoft talks with Paul about the Microsoft Lists offering and what it means for developers. Lincoln shares his insight Lists in the context of the Power Platform and in the broader productivity market, as well as some roadmap items for upcoming months.

Microsoft Links about Lists:

• Announcing Microsoft Lists - Your smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Lists – evolving the value of SharePoint lists and beyond
• 4 building blocks for every collab app: Templates, Sites, Lists and Tasks

Microsoft News

• A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 8 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Recap at Build 2020 & What’s in Season 2
• Embedding modern SharePoint pages in Microsoft Teams as personal apps (preview)
• Use our new Office 365 Groups Mail Connector!

Community Links

• The easiest way to store user settings of your Microsoft 365 app

Paul is joined by Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison from the Developer Advocacy team in the Identity Division at Microsoft. Christos and John discuss a new .NET library named Microsoft.Identity.Web that improves and simplifies the integration between ASP.NET Identity and Azure Active Directory. They also discuss several samples that the team published recently. These samples make use of the Microsoft.Identity.Web and Microsoft Graph libraries in various app scenarios.

Links from the show:

• Microsoft identity platform documentation
• Christos Matskas blog
• John Patrick Dandison blog
• Call MS Graph APIs from ASP.NET Core 3.1
• Publisher verification overview - Microsoft identity platform
• Build 2020: Fostering a secure and trustworthy app ecosystem for all users
• Azure Active Directory Uservoice​

Microsoft News

• Service principal API in Microsoft Graph is now generally available
• Build advanced queries in Microsoft Graph with $count, $filter, $search, and $orderby
• Announcing support for new Groups properties via Microsoft Graph API
• Our Microsoft Identity Platform developer training videos are published (Matthijs Hoekstra @mahoekst)

Sam Cogan (@samcogan) talks with Paul about Infrastructure as Code. They discuss what Infrastructure as Code is and why you want to use it. The discussion covers approaches to infrastructure configuration such as scripts/commands and tools (both Azure-based and third-party) for provisioning and managing your cloud infrastructure.

Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0FFpLMPSTyDAysIIhJJ2zw

Links from the show:

• Sam's blog
• Sam's ARM Template Masterclass
• Why Infrastructure As Code?

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Graph community call-June 2, 2020
• Just updated the #MicrosoftGraph http://ASP.NET snippets sample to http://ASP.NET Core 3.1 with latest Graph SDK and the Microsoft.Identity.Web preview library. @jasonjohmsft
• https://github.com/microsoftgraph/aspnet-snippets-sample

Azure / Developer from Build

• Build 2020 - Introducing Bot Framework Virtual Assistant 1.0
• Build 2020 - Conversational AI updates
• Author rich content in QnA Maker knowledge base and enable role based sharing
• What is Windows Terminal?
• Windows Package Manager Preview

Paul talks with Jeremy Likness about the new .Net-based Blazor technology combined with Web Assembly (WASM) to run code in the browser instead of the server.

Links from the show:

• EF Core and Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly
• Azure AD Secured Serverless Cosmos DB from Blazor WebAssembly

Microsoft News

• Build ASP.NET Core MVC apps with Microsoft Graph

Community Links

• Announcing the Application Insights Annotation Github Action
• Setup WSL2 for SPFx development

Sam Broner from Microsoft sits down with Jeremy to cover the latest information about the Fluid Framework from Build 2020.

Links from the show:

• https://fluid.microsoft.com
• Get Started with Fluid Framework Preview

Microsoft News

• Session Videos on Channel 9
• Microsoft Build Skilling Sessions
• Microsoft 365 developer platform live show Playlist
• Introducing the first Microsoft Fluid Framework experiences in Outlook and Office.com