Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Extending SharePoint Patterns and Practices team with new MVP community members – June 2018

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18

SharePoint team

We are happy to announce additional community members being included in the SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) team. We are really excited to grow the team, which will help us to address growing interest in the SharePoint community and development topics.

Introducing SharePoint Starter Kit

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

SharePoint team

We are happy to announce the availability of a new SharePoint Starter Kit open-source project, which can be used to demonstrate possibilities with the communications sites and group associate team sites in Office 365.

SharePoint Development Community (PnP) – June 2018 update

June 11, 2018 Jun 11, 2018 06/11/18

SharePoint team

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) May 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the community for the community

Announcing SharePoint Framework version 1.5: new tools and a beta preview

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18

SharePoint team

SharePoint Framework version 1.5 is now available, bringing both new tools to make your development more efficient as well as a new channel for trying new preview features.

Working with files in your Microsoft Teams bot (Preview)

June 4, 2018 Jun 4, 2018 06/4/18

Microsoft Teams team

We announced at Build 2018 that bots will soon be able to send and receive files. I’m happy to let you know that it’s finally here! If you have a Microsoft Teams app that works with files, it’s time to switch to Public Developer Preview and check it out.

New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – May 2018

June 4, 2018 Jun 4, 2018 06/4/18

SharePoint team

We are happy to announce the availability of new SharePoint Client-Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This was mainly a small maintenance release with minimal updates on the CSOM API surface.

Securing API requests from Kaizala action

May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 05/31/18

Kaizala Developer Platform team

There are scenarios where you may want to query your service from within the Kaizala card. While the APIs to be queried are public (without any authentication), you can query them directly. But, in case you want to secure your APIs to make sure the calls are made by the particular user from within the Kaizala card alone – you use the Integration Service token. This post explains how you generate this token and subsequently validate this on the service side.

Excel JavaScript API 1.7 goes GA

May 18, 2018 May 18, 2018 05/18/18

Office Add-ins team

We're pleased to announce that the Excel JavaScript 1.7 API is now generally available! We received lots of great feedback on the design of the APIs during the beta period and we appreciate your active participation.

Kaizala extensibility training available now on Microsoft Virtual Academy

May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018 05/14/18

Kaizala Developer Platform team

Kaizala Extensibility training is now available as a course on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) click here – which has the videos as well as the slides.

Updates from Build: New improvements for SharePoint Framework coming soon

May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18

SharePoint team

At Microsoft Build, we previewed several upcoming changes and improvements coming to SharePoint Framework. You’ll see these changes start to release over the coming weeks, and we’ll go into more detail at the upcoming SharePoint Conference – North America.