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Copper Contributor

Nov 30, 2016

Getting started with PnP - How do I start?

I have seen the PnP since 2014, and I saw the progress Microsoft and the community are doing in that matter, however it always felt like it's a blackbox for me, and I don't know how to really use it....

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TammyLee Lee

Copper Contributor

Nov 30, 2016

Thank you. I am following the youtube channel. The Ignite conference had lots of videos assuming you're already familiar with PnP. Isn't there any guidance like when SharePoint first released to guide us? We "SharePoint Developers" are familiar with Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and TFS), isn't there any guidance from Microsoft itself to guide us through all this Github, contributing to repos, gulp, etc..? It's too overwhelming for people used to do MS development only and we find ourselves lost in this whole contributing/open-source space.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Dec 01, 2016

Have you seen this video? https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/OfficeDevPnP/PnP-Web-Cast-How-to-get-started-with-Office-Dev-PnP

Paolo Pialorsi has an excellent book that is specifically targeted at this scenario https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1509300910/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.

There are also lots of good resources at https://dev.office.com/training

TammyLee Lee
Copper Contributor
Dec 03, 2016
Thanks Dean,

I actually bought Paolo's book, but it's more regarding Graph and SharePoint Add-ins, rather than using the PnP itself.