As the dust settles on Microsoft Ignite for another year I’m left going back over my notes and recalling discussions I had for all those key announcements, advice and snippets of gold that will have a real impact for Office developers.
If you are looking for a high level list of announcements made at the conference, the Ignite Book of News is a good place to start although it doesn’t cover many of the announcements that were made in the Office Developer area – this book covers a lot of the Azure announcements, which most Office developers will have a mild interest in (we have to host our code somewhere!)
Here’s some of my favourite announcements:
Do more with new upcoming SharePoint development capabilities announced at Ignite 2018
Call Microsoft Graph and Web APIs and deploy Extensions across your SharePoint sites
Deploy your web parts and application pages to Microsoft Teams
Connect across components with dynamic data capabilities
Deliver complete applications with application pages
Harness more of SharePoint with new Microsoft Graph APIs
Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2018
Managed access to Microsoft Graph (data connect to bulk export to Azure subscription)
Dynamics is now in Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Teams, Messages, Calendars, Files, and Folders
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)
In preview but suitable for production use
Capable of reaching both v1 and v2 services
MSAL JavaScript library for serverless implicit flow scenarios
I thought this years conference was very well run and the volume of people moving about the conference centre wasn’t overwhelming. I had a lot of fun meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends. It’s great to have such knowledgeable Microsoft staff accessible on the expo hall floor (both from a Marketing and Engineering side) to discuss particular scenarios, technologies, ad bounce ideas off.
Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Office Developer Announcements As the dust settles on Microsoft Ignite for another year I'm left going back over my notes and recalling discussions I had for all those key announcements, advice and snippets of gold that will have a real impact for Office developers.