Microsoft MVP Alex Terentiev sits down with Paul to discuss Office 365 development topics including SPFx/Teams and bots and developer tools and languages. Alex discusses his work around React Templates and SPFx library components and other successful projects.
 
Alex's links
 
React Templates Using SPFx Library Components. 
http://blog.aterentiev.com/2019/06/react-templates-using-spfx-library.html#more
 
https://twitter.com/alexaterentiev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseiterentiev/?locale=en_US
 
Ignite News
Book of news - Ignite 2019
https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/563/2019/11/Ignite-2019-Book-of-News.pdf
 
All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/all-things-developer-tools-at-microsoft-ignite/
 
Delivering increased productivity for bot development and deployment
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/delivering-increased-productivity-for-bot-development-and-deployment/
 
Ignite Blog: Microsoft Fluid Framework preview
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-Blog/Ignite-Blog-Microsoft-Fluid-Framework-preview/ba-p/978268

Jeremy Thake talks to Yina Arenas and Darrel Miller about what is new for Microsoft Graph from Ignite.
 
See all the recordings for Microsoft Graph at Ignite.
Read the Microsoft Graph blog post announcement.
Go get the Microsoft Graph PowerSHell SDK 

Paul talks with Doug Ware about his experience on modernizing workloads. Most organizations have systems on-premise that must integrate with cloud services, and Doug talks thru his strategies for locating and modernizing those systems. you can follow Doug on twitter @DougWare.
 
Community Links
 
Ignite 2019 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream and related technology sessions
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Ignite-2019-guide-to-SharePoint-OneDrive-Yammer-Stream-and/ba-p/930289
 
The Microsoft Teams Guide to Ignite 2019
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/The-Microsoft-Teams-Guide-to-Ignite-2019/ba-p/942149
 

This week Jeremy Thake talks to Darren Jeffor, a Principal Architect in the Convesrational AI engineering team about the Virtual Assistant solution.
Show Notes
Microsoft Virtual Assistant docs
Calendar Skill for Virtual Assistant docs
Microsoft News
Attaching large files to Outlook messages in Microsoft Graph (preview)
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/attaching-large-files-to-outlook-messages-in-microsoft-graph-preview/
Community News
Adaptive Cards community call-October 10, 2019
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/adaptive-cards-community-call-october-10-2019/
 
Adaptive Cards for Blazor
https://github.com/mikoskinen/Blazor.AdaptiveCards
 
Office Add-ins community call–October 9, 2019
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blogs/office-add-ins-community-call-october-9-2019/
 
JSON Serialization in .NET Core 3: Tiny Difference, Big Consequences
https://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/json-serialization-in-net-core-3-tiny-difference-big-consequences?WT.mc_id=DX_MVP4025064

Jeremy Thake had the pleasure of catching up with Kevin Gallo, Microsoft CVP, to talk about Windows development. Kevin talks about how he got started in Microsoft, what drew him to Windows development platform and then onto the strategy developers should understand with Windows development. 
Show Notes
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/
KevinTGallo on Twitter
 
Microsoft News
Microsoft Graph SDK v1.18.0
Microsoft Graph SDK code snippet
Microsoft technology podcast showcase
Community News
Microsoft Graph SDK dotnet contrib github repo
Graph Community logging message handler

This week Jeremy and Paul catch up to talk about the latest hot news from Microsoft 365 Development.
Microsoft News
MIME format support on mail endpoint
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/mime-format-support-for-outlook-mail-and-attachments-translate-item-id-apis-are-now-available-in-microsoft-graph-v1-0/
 
Reply adds message object
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/changelog#mail-outlook
 
Announcing availability of an updated Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Announcing-availability-of-an-updated-Page-Diagnostics-Tool-for/ba-p/859877
 
M365 Development on MS Learn
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/browse/?roles=developer&products=m365
 
New CDN URLs and Subresource Integrity Hash for MSAL JS
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/new-cdn-urls-and-subresource-integrity-hash-for-msal-js/
 
Android and iOS and macOS GA MSAL
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/identity/blogs/microsoft-authentication-libraries-for-android-ios-and-macos-are-now-generally-available/
 
Community
Exploring The Microsoft Graph Toolkit Sergei Sergeev
https://spblog.net/post/2019/10/01/exploring-microsoft-graph-toolkit
 
SPFx overclockers or how to significantly improve your SharePoint Framework build performance Sergei Sergeev
https://spblog.net/post/2019/09/18/spfx-overclockers-or-how-to-significantly-improve-your-sharepoint-framework-build-performance
 
Adding a SharePoint page or list as tab to Teams using Graph API
https://myteamsday.com/2019/09/24/adding-a-sharepoint-page-or-list-as-tab-to-teams-using-graph-api/
 
Yo teams2.12.0-preview Wictor Wilen
aka.ms/yoteams
 
Using Azure Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines
https://zimmergren.net/using-azure-key-vault-secrets-from-azure-devops-pipeline/
 

Jeremy talks to Nikola, who leads the engineering effort on the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, about the general availability announcement from 9/26. They talk about why web components was picked as the technology and some of the decisions along the way there. Nikola goes into detail about the reasons why the sign in component and person card were picked first and how the agenda component came about. They go into detail about the Build keynote demo built in vue and the challenges that identified along with much more!
Show Notes
Graph Toolkit v1.0 blog announcement
Microsoft Graph Toolkit on Github
Microsoft Graph Toolkit on docs.microsoft.com/graph
Microsoft News
Microsoft Learn Microsoft Graph modules

Jeremy Thake got to catch up with Wictor Wilen on Microsoft Teams and the work he's been doing around the yeoman generator. He talked about the customer scenarios for using messaging extensions in Teams as well as many other scenarios he's seeing on the platform.
 
Show Notes
Microsoft Teams yeoman generator
Microsoft Teams messaging extensions
Microsoft News
Breaking change: redundant beta APIs for Microsoft Teams to be removed
Breaking changes: Calls and online meetings API updates in Microsoft Graph beta
Microsoft Graph metadata repo
Microsoft events — the year ahead