Episode 130 on SharePoint developer updates with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In Episode 130 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Andrew Coates talks with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan about SharePoint Developer announcements at Build 2017.

Weekly updates

• How to monetize with Office add-ins and apps by Office Dev
• SharePoint PnP webcast—introduction to Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework by the PnP team
• Announcing updated SharePoint Framework developer training by Office Dev
• Andrew interviews Vesa and Dan on Channel 9 at build 2017 by Channel 9
• SharePoint Online free developer tools list for Windows by Velin Georgiev
• Tooling up for SharePoint Framework by Danny Jessee
• Utilizing ngOfficeUIFabric People Picker in SharePoint by Julie Turner
• Microsoft Teams Developer Preview mode by Microsoft Teams
• Get started with the Cortana skills kit by Greg Duncan

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About the guests

Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager within SharePoint engineering. He works in the team responsible for the SharePoint customization model, including SharePoint Framework and developer community initiatives from engineering. Previously, he worked as a SharePoint CAT team member in CXP and as a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before movin the to product group. Vesa also leads the virtual team that created the SharePoint Patterns and Practice (PnP) initiative to help customers and partners to learn right ways to customize and extend SharePoint and Office 365.

Daniel Kogan is a principal group program manager responsible for the SharePoint developer platform and extensibility. As a 15-year veteran at Microsoft (joining by way of acquisition), Daniel has a leader in a number of critical areas of SharePoint and Office Server. In his 25+ years of tech leadership, Daniel holds a number of patents for his work and is the brain behind a number of popular features in SharePoint.

About the hosts

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.