Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

In episode 13, Jeremy Thake chats to Chakkaradeep Chandran about the Office 365 APIs in Visual Studio and some of his open source projects.

Weekly updates

• Introduction to Office 365 Development training available on-demand from Microsoft Virtual Academy—for free on blogs.office.com
• Using the HttpClient Class with SharePoint 2013 REST API by Steve Curran
• Using the Exchange Online EWSs API with Office 365 API via Azure AD  by Jeremy Thake
• System update for SharePoint list items using App model by Vesa Juvonen
• Using Azure to SSL-Enable an Http REST Service by Richard diZerega

Show notes

• Office 365 API Visual Studio 2013 tools update
• Discovery Context update how to guide
• Microsoft Virtual Academy Course 1 training module 5 – Intro to Office 365 APIs
• Office 365 API docs
• Azure AD pricing
• Talking to SharePoint CSOM and Exchange EWS with Azure AD auth flow
• Code Samples
  • Xamarin Contacts Code Sample
  • CRUD samples
  • Research Project and  Expense Project

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About Chaks

Chaks works as a program manager for Microsoft with the Visual Studio team. He currently owns the Office 365 API tooling developer experience within Visual Studio, which helps developers discover and consume Office 365 services in their applications. This involves understanding how developers use Visual Studio and build an intuitive way to consume services. Chaks assesses product opportunities and defines the required product experience that allows developers to build cloud applications that connect people, documents and enterprise data to collaborate business processes on modern devices. You can find Chaks blogging at http://chakkaradeep.com/ and tweeting at @Chakkaradeep.

About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.

You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.

In episode 12, Jeremy Thake chats to Alex Randall about SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio and some of his open source projects.

Weekly updates

• Announcing general availability of Mobile Services .NET support on Microsoft Azure blog
• JSON Light support in REST SharePoint API released on Office Blogs
• Developing and Deploying Multiple SharePoint 2013 Apps to a Single Azure Web Site by Steve Peschka
• Office 365 API My Files CRUD Sample Code by Chaks
• SharePoint 2013: Using the App Only policy and App Principals instead of username and password combos by Wictor Wilen

Show notes

• Alex’s Office 365 Workflow Reusable Components and Examples on GitHub.com
• Extend business processes with Workflow Manager on Channel 9
• SharePoint 2013 workflow fundamentals on MSDN.com
• Fabian Williams blog
• Vesa Juvonen blog

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About Alex

Alex Randall is a SharePoint senior consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). He advises and helps customers migrate to and customize Office 365/SharePoint Online. He has contributed code to Office 365 Development Patterns and Practices and spoken at SharePoint Conference 2014 about SharePoint workflow. Recently, he spoke at an internal Microsoft training event where he demonstrated advanced workflow scenarios in Office 365—for both SharePoint apps and Office apps. Alex has been in software development and IT fields for over 16 years. Before he caught the SharePoint bug in 2003, Alex gained many years of experience in web technologies, .NET and SQL Server custom application development. Alex holds a B.S. in Computer Science and resides near Washington, DC with his wife and son.

You can find Alex blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_randall/ and tweeting at @alex_randall.

About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.

You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.

In episode 11, Jeremy Thake chats to the two Imagine Cup finalist teams for the Office 365 App Model challenge, which were Team Code Blue, from India and Team iGeek, from China. Team Code Blue built the Molecule maker app and Team iGeek built the Education Toolkit.

Weekly updates

• Office 365 APIs using AngularJS standalone websites—samples shipped
• Update on the Autohosted Apps Preview Program—part 2
• How to: Create your first mail app for Outlook by using a text editor
• CloudTopia: Connecting o365, Apps, Azure and Cortana – Part 1

Show notes

Education Toolkit for Office by Team iGeek, China

This toolkit for Computer Science presentations turns Microsoft PowerPoint into a first-class experience for reviewing code before a team or audience. It adds dynamic features familiar from development environments to PowerPoint including: Syntax Highlighting to automatically color-code function names, variables, etc., based on which language the code belongs to; Code Block Expand/Collapse to display or hide function bodies, classes, and comments during a presentation; Click-Jump to Function and Global Variable Definition so the presenter can click a function name or global variable and jump to its definition; and Canvas Mode so the presenter can use a pen and eraser during a presentation to sketch and make notes on the code snippet being presented. With these features, anyone making a presentation on programming can greatly improve their talk and use these interactive features to review and discuss the code on screen.

Molecule Maker by Team CodeBlue, India

Representing molecules visually is critical for scientific and academic writing. Molecule Maker provides a library of molecule visualizations in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These visualizations are available in both 2D and 3D models and can be extensively customized for the needs of the topic before the final result is embedded as an image. You can display the chemical formula, the molecular weight, and much more. For 3D representations you can rotate and zoom the model to focus on just what you need to get the perfect image. Molecules defined in the standard .xyz filetype (Molecular Storage file format) can be imported and rendered. This app will greatly improve documents and presentations for students and lecturers around the world.

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Team Code Blue

Jehi Jha

Neha Valecha

Ankur Bhalla

Team iGeek

Jinta Zheng

Yiwei Zhang

Zhi Tian

Rongjia Liu

About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.

You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.

In episode 10, Jeremy Thake chats with Richard diZerega about Yammer development.

Weekly updates

• Introduction to Office 365 Development Live Webinar Q&A at Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Office 365 API Tool for Visual Studio 2013—summer update on Office blogs
• Put Some Office in Your Apps on Xamarin Blog
• Uploading Large documents in SharePoint Online with REST, CSOM and RPC using C# by Steve Curran
• Uploading Large Files to SharePoint 2013 from .NET Using CSOM and REST by Steve Peschka

Show notes

• Yammer Developer Center on yammer.com
• Integrating Yammer and Microsoft SharePoint using .NET on Channel 9
• Yammer Analytics with Excel and Power BI on YouTube (10 minutes)
• Yammer mining—dig in and “listen” to what your big *social* data is saying on Channel 9
• Social Nucleus on Office Store
• Tiny Links on Office Store

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About Richard

Richard is a solution architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Dallas, Texas, where he helps large enterprise customers architect solutions that maximize their Microsoft investments. Although a developer at heart, he has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting SharePoint-centric solutions in the areas of Search, Portals/Collaboration, Content/Document Management, and Business Intelligence. He is a passionate and skillful technology evangelist with great interest in innovative solutions that include Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Lync, Kinect, and much more. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/richard_dizeregas_blog  and follow him on Twitter at @richdizz.

About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.

You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.