It’s time for Ignite 2018. Over 20,000 Microsoft employees, customers, and partners are converging in Orlando to learn, share, discuss, and experience what’s new and what’s next in our business. Many of us who’ve worked hard to create the tools and technology that power the Office 365 Ecosystem have arrived at the Orange County Convention Center, excited to show off what we’ve built and show you how customers and partners can build solutions that unlock creativity, generate new insights, and improve teamwork.
SharePoint is great for getting your apps out to teams and departments, and across your organization. As a developer, you can take advantage of many services to complete your app, including document storage, a page model that allows for easy customization, SharePoint lists for basic data, connections to APIs and data from Microsoft Graph, and much more.
For the last several months, Microsoft Graph engineering teams in Redmond and around the world have worked to prepare for Ignite 2018. That moment has finally arrived. We have 58 sessions across Ignite 2018 that highlight the ways in which the Microsoft Graph is changing our products and ecosystem. We’re pleased to provide an overview of the all work we’ve done to create a richer, deeper, more powerful tool for our developer communities and the customers they serve.
Using the SharePoint Framework, developers can extend SharePoint to their organization's specific needs. And with the latest version of the SharePoint Framework, they can do it consistently across all sites in the tenant using tenant wide deployment capability.
In the coming weeks, we're rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier to work with Outlook item IDs: Immutable ID. With this feature, Microsoft Graph will provide an identifier in the id property that will not change over the lifetime of the item, so long as the item stays in the same mailbox.
With the release of SharePoint Framework 1.6, we also did refresh the step-by-step getting started tutorials for both SharePoint Framework web parts and SharePoint Framework extensions.
We are happy to announce the availability of the PnP SPFx Yeoman generator, which enables the community to work together with the SharePoint engineering and to add new supported JavaScript framework and other options to the templates.