In this weeks show, Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein interview Vincent Biret about the Microsoft Graph Open Extensions and Calendering functionality. Vincent also discusses how his team does integration and unit testing within his apps and much more.

Show Links

• June Microsoft graph community call
• Vincent Biret on Twitter
• Vincent Biret's blog
• Open extension lab

News

• Surface Go
• Imagine Cup 2018 Winners - smartARM

Community News

• .NET Core: Building Function app with Microsoft Graph API and Azure Functions by Hansamali Gamage
• Microsoft Graph. AngularJS SPA to interact with SharePoint Online
• Using Microsoft Graph to get a PDF preview of a file in SharePoint by file path by Mikael Svenson
• New Microsoft Graph powered developer template supports work life balance and compliance by Office Platform Ecosystem Team

Jeremy got to catch up with Yochay Kiriaty, Group Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for the Microsoft Bot Framework. 

In this interview they discussed what the Bot Framework is, how it relates to the Azure Bot Service. Yochay explained why there is a re-architecture as part of jump from v3 to v4 of the Framework. They also talked about the common authentication flows and whats there to help. He also shared common bots that he sees being built out there in the wild.

Show Links

• Microsoft Bot Framework
• Azure Bot Service

• Yochay on Twitter

News

• Office Developer Bootcamps
• Microsoft Graph Update

Community News

• Sending Mail with Microsoft Graph and SPFx by Paolo Pialorsi
• SharePoint SPFX and Microsoft Graph 30 min lab
• Change the display name of a message sender by Paul Schaeflein
• Executing batch requests with Microsoft Graph and SharePoint Framework by Markus Moeller

• How to sort planner tasks using order hint and Microsoft Graph by Laura Kokkarinen

• A starter scaffold for my Azure Functions by Jeremy Hancock