Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording -- 20th of January, 2021

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording -- 20th of January, 2021

Call summary

  • One location the Microsoft 365 tenant – script samples gallery (134 scenarios and 182 scripts) including recently added Teams PowerShell support!  
  • Sign up and attend an AMA and other events this month hosted by Sharing is Caring.  At the same time, sign up for the PnP Recognition Program.  
  • Heads down on PnP projects. 
  • Check out the TeamsFx authentication provider preview in MGT! 
  • To see current releases and latest updates/nightly builds, access the Repos via the links in table below.  
  • There were 7 new/updated script, 5 Power Platform samples delivered this week.   
  • Wanted! – Teams Samples.

Open-source project status

(Bold indicates new this call)

ProjectCurrent VersionRelease/Status
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Frameworkv1.8.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support addedPrepping v1.9
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Core SDKv1.5.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support addedPrepping v1.6
PnP PowerShellv1.9.0 GAIn progress: V2 POC, Prepping for v1.8, nightly releases
Yo teams - generator-teamsv3.5.0 GAv4.0.0-next
Yo teams - yoteams-build-corev1.5.0 GA, Next: v1.6.0-next.1  
Yo teams – yoteams-deployv1.1.0 GA  
Yo teams - msteams-react-base-componentv3.1.1  
Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT)v2.3.1 GA, TeamsFx authentication provider preview!Preparing v2.3.1 release, working on v3.0.0 - Aligning all Toolkit components to Fluent UI Web Components

While version releases are periodic, nightly releases are nightly!  Subscribe to nightly releases for the latest capabilities.

The host of this call was David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII.   Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Microsoft Teams Development Samples

(https://aka.ms/TeamsSampleBrowser)

  • Wanted!  Teams Samples

Microsoft Power Platform Samples

(https://aka.ms/powerplatform-samples)

Script Samples

https://aka.ms/script-samples

4 new scenarios and 3 script updates contributed by

Blog: Getting started with PnP Script Samples – aka.ms/script-samples/getting-started

– Many thanks!

Demos

Demos delivered in this session

Getting started on building a Microsoft Teams bot with yo teams

what is yo teams (a Microsoft Teams app generator) and how to use it to build a bot.  After installing Yeoman generator and Gulp CLI task manager, install npm i -g generator-teams.  Create a project.  In VS Code step through files generated by yo teams.  Use gulp build, gulp manifest and gulp serve.  Upload created bot to Teams site and appreciate its out-of-box capabilities.    

Microsoft List Formatting - Challenges and Solutions

appreciate results of one person’s winter lock down – List Formatting samples categorized by emotions, multiple person, color picker, bar option, slider, and Teams Group.  Solutions include discussion board, events mobile and payment.  Graphical tree along with LABs (show how handle manual actions from users) for Tic Tac Toe and roll dice.  UI/script shown on slides, live in demo.   Samples available in List Formatting Repo soon. 

Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & GoQR Connector Demo

49 connectors in production, 40 in pipeline today!  The GoQR connector generates QR codes.  In Power Apps, render the QR Code image alone or embed the QR code image in a document or pdf, i.e., an invoice.  Simple build - a text field, a button (calls connector with action create) and a flow.   This connector is now available to anyone in the world.  Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.    Request a Demo spot on the call https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo

Topics

Topics covered in this call

  • PnP .NET library updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 7:01
  • PnP PowerShell updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 8:33
  • yo Teams updates - Stephan Bisser (Solvion) | @stephanbisser – 9:44
  • Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert – 11:57
  • Microsoft Script Samples - Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) | @pkbullock – 2:33
  • Microsoft Teams Samples - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII – 13:39
  • Microsoft Power Platform Samples - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 13:56
  • Demo 1:  Getting started on building a Microsoft Teams bot with yo teams – Stephan Bisser[ (Solvion) | @stephanbisser ]– 16:14
  • Demo 2[:  Microsoft List Formatting - Challenges and solutions –]** **André Lage[ (Datalynx AG) | @aaclage – 28:44]
  • [Demo 3[:  Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & GoQR Connector Demo – ]Natalie Pienkowska[ (Microsoft) | @NataliePienkow1 & ]Rui Santos[ (Microsoft) ]]– 47:41

Resources

Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.

General resources

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

General Microsoft 365 Dev Special Interest Group bi-weekly calls are targeted at anyone who’s interested in the general Microsoft 365 development topics. This includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Power Automate, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from https://aka.ms/m365pnp. We also welcome community demos, if you are interested in doing a live demo in these calls!

You can download recurrent invite from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments to this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from https://aka.ms/m365pnp.

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Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) team, Microsoft - 21st of January 2022