Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 27th of May, 2021

[Vesa Juvonen]

Recording of the Microsoft 365 – General M365 development Special Interest Group (SIG) community call from May 27, 2021.

Call Summary

Latest news from Microsoft 365 engineering and updates on open-source projects: PnP .NET libraries, PnP PowerShell, modernization tooling, on yo Teams, on Microsoft Graph Toolkit, and on Microsoft Teams Samples.

Join on the Viva Connections private preview!  The Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2 is now available!  Looking to get started with Microsoft Teams development? Don’t miss out our Teams samples gallery!  Check out the Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery, and register now for June trainings on Sharing-is-caring.   Recent PnP project releases include - yo Teams generator-teams (apps generator) v3.1.0 GA, v3.2.0 Preview, yo teams-build-core (gulp tasks) v1.2.0 Preview, and Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.2.0 GA along with insights into MGT vNext.

Open-source project status:

Project	Current Version	Release/Status
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Framework	v1.4.0	Prepping for v1.5.0 release week of May 31
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Core SDK	v1.1.0	Prepping for v1.2.0 release week of May 31
PnP PowerShell	v1.5.0 (just added Cmdlets for Viva Connections and Syntex)	Prepping for v1.6.0 (June)
Yo teams - generator-teams	Released v3.1.0 GA, v3.2.0 Preview	Preview with Viva Connections support
Yo teams - yoteams-build-core	v1.1.0, v1.2.0 Preview
Yo teams - msteams-react-base-component	v3.1.0
Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT)	v2.2.0 GA

Additionally, 2 new Teams samples were delivered in the last 2 weeks.  The host of this call was David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII.   Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Actions:  

• Join on the Viva Connections private preview! | aka.ms/viva/connections/preview/register
• Feedback wanted:  Regarding PnP PowerShell – “What if we did not return classic CSOM objects from the cmdlets?”  Comments to:  @erwinvanhunen.    
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • First Time Contributor Session – June 29^th (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  • Community Docs Session – May
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – June 17^th  
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – June 24^th
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Microsoft Graph & MGT – June 8^th
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Microsoft Teams Dev - June
  • First Time Presenter – June 30^th
  • More than Code with VSCode – May 27^th, June 16^th
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – June 15^th
• PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session - Register
• PnP Buddy System - Request a Buddy
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – http://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

Microsoft Teams Development Samples:  (https://aka.ms/TeamsSampleBrowser)

• Action Preview - Markus Moeller |@Moeller2_0

• Teams Context Viewer tab - Sébastien Levert | @sebastienlevert

Hello!  it’s always great to see everyone on the call today.  Thanks for participating. 

Demos delivered in this session

• Getting started with HTWOO UI – Fluent Design in HTML and CSS – an open-source community driven Fluent UI driven framework that’s just HTML, CSS and a bit of JS.   Simple to use in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, same branding as Fluent UI.   Complete component library - tables, typography, avatars, icons, dialogs and more.  Steps through HTWOO install – a npm package and 2 theme aware SPFx web parts.   Complete documentation and samples.

• Gain your users attention with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API – send activity notifications from both apps that live outside Teams and others (like static tabs) inside Teams, to Teams tabs, bots, chat.   Uses the activity feed notification APIs in Microsoft Graph.  Presenter review types of metadata on messages, requirements for sending defined activity type notifications, app registration, consent, manifest, notifications settings in Teams, etc.  Then steps through the code for simple and advanced notifications. 

• Deep linking from List Formatting to Power Automate solution – Integrate lists, list formatting and Power Apps.  Achieve similar look and feel using same SVG icons in lists and Power App.  Call for list data from a Power App.  Launch a Power App and send mail from within a list.  Color SVG icons using fill properties in Inkscape SVG Editor.  Showed using code from 2 samples in this demo.      

Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.

Topics covered in this call

• PnP .NET library updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) @O365bert - 5:50
• PnP PowerShell updates - Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) @erwinvanhunen - 8:21
• yo Teams updates - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) @DavidWarnerII - 10:00
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - Nikola Metulev (Microsoft) | @metulev - 10:31
• Microsoft Teams Samples - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) @DavidWarnerII - 13:38

• Demo:  Getting started with HTWOO UI – Fluent Design in HTML and CSS – Stefan Bauer (N8D) | @StfBauer - 15:31

• Demo:  Gain your users attention with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API – Thomas Gölles (Solvion) | @thomyg - 29:54

• Demo:  Deep linking from List Formatting to Power Automate solution – Chris Kent (DMI) | @theChrisKent - 44:55 

Resources:

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

• Blog Post - HTWOO UI launched – Fluent Design in HTML and CSS 

• Documentation: ABOUT HTWOO UI 

• Repo: HTWOO UI framework 

• Samples: htwoo-samples 

• Documentation - Send activity feed notifications to users in Microsoft Teams 

• Video - Microsoft Teams – Use the teamwork Microsoft Graph endpoint 

• Documentation - Create deep links 

• Graphics - Fluent UI Icon Search 

• Sample - Person Mail To Link 

• Sample - Launch Power App Button 

• Blog post - Custom Icon Buttons in Power Apps with Hover Color 

• Editor - Inkscape - https://inkscape.org

• PnP Weekly – Episode 128 with guest Katie Swanson (Microsoft) | @kswansondesign | video | podcast
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery | aka.ms/m365/extensibility
• Microsoft Teams Samples Gallery | aka.ms/teams-samples

General resources:

• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | http://aka.ms/learn-mgt
• Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections
• SharePoint look book
• Yo Teams video training package
• .NET Standard 2.0 version of SharePoint Online CSOM API
• Microsoft 365 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
• Video - Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor
• Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
• Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance - Feedback welcome
• Solution - Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
• Page transformation guidance
• Page transformation videos
• Modernization scanner
• Microsoft 365 developer program site - Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)
• SharePoint Provisioning Service - Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
• SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
• PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
• SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Tools

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites:

• Microsoft Graph call – June 1^st at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall
• SharePoint Framework call – June 3^rdat 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• SharePoint monthly call – June 8^th at 8:00am PDT | https://aka.ms/sp-call
• Office add-in monthly call – June 9^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• Adaptive Cards monthly call – June 10^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
• M365 General Dev call – June 10^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Teams monthly call – June 15^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall
• Power Apps monthly call – June 16^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• Microsoft Identity Platform – June 17th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 

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, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from http://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 http://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 http://aka.ms/m365pnp.

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Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft - 28th of May 2021