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It’s been a while, almost a year, here … and whenever there is a new year we pick up our resolutions from last year and see what we can do that we missed progressing the past year. Blogging is one of these things … so let’s pick this up again for now and see where it ends.

In my professional work I’ve been kind of limited in doing things programmer-wise, more a people manager than coding manager…

Office Development – Live Coding

Last two years I have been webcasting every Thursday at 8PM GMT+1/CET on our SDN Cast with my buddies Marcel Meijer, Fanie Reynders and recently added as fourth member Gerald Versluis. In this webcast we on a weekly base discuss the news, events on Software Development and added some demos. Usually the webcast was in Dutch but when we had international guests we shifted to English.

Running the…

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)

Notifications API

Dynamics is now in Microsoft Graph

New PowerApps templates

Security API

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.

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2018 Just started – Happy New Year

A lot happened in 2017 on all levels … Marcel Meijer, Fanie Reynders and I did our weekly SDN Cast again for the second year already. We only skipped a few weeks to attend some large conferences and create some impressions of the events. You can find all the videos on our YouTube channel: www.sdncast.nl/youtube (or direct link: www.youtube.com/sdncast). I was awarded MVP for the 13th time in…

SDN Event: Bill Ayers – Welcome to the Brave New World of SharePoint and Office 365 Development!

Second session in our series of October SDN Event recordings we released the first presentation by Bill Ayers from the event where he informs you about the evolution of SharePoint and Office 365 Development and where we are today with regards to these products. Where to find: https://youtu.be/MIGySwrI6tg Abstract: If your software development journey ever took you into the dark misty forest that…

SDN Cast 66 – XlPublish with Mr. Moffat and Mr. Hoppe

Today we had our 66th SDN Cast, our 100th published video. Today with Mr. Moffat and Mr. Hoppe showing their new Excel tool XlPublish an Add-In for Microsoft Excel to better integrate Excel data and Microsoft’s Power BI’s Dashboarding product and make it available to every Excel user everywhere. Usually the SDN Cast in Dutch but today the webcast is in English as Dick Moffat is from the other…

Office Development–How to reach the Office Extensibility Platform team

A long time ago, I answered a lot of questions in the so called Microsoft Forums assisting the community with VSTO issues. The forums still exist (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=vsto), but are not the main access point anymore if you want to reach the Office Extensibility Platform team with your questions or issues. These days https://www.stackoverflow.com is…