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Harness the growing network of apps and insights in Microsoft Graph

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Microsoft Graph team
Microsoft Graph is the unified API endpoint that offers developers a gateway to the rich data and powerful insights behind a large and growing set of Microsoft products. Based on consistent REST-based standards, tools, and features, the set of scenarios you can power with the Microsoft Graph grows exponentially as new products, datasets and capabilities are added to the endpoint.

Conversations become actions in Outlook

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Laura Graham
At Build 2018, we’ve announced several technologies to help developers enrich emails with new interactive capabilities.  These capabilities allow developers to engage with their users more deeply, right in context within the email, thereby reducing the friction between intent and action.

Azure Machine Learning, JavaScript Custom Functions, and Power BI Custom Visuals Further Expand Developers Capabilities with Excel

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Office Add-ins team
Today at Build, we announced a powerful set of capabilities to the Excel platform, offering developers, data scientists, and power users more opportunities to better work with data. Developers and data scientists can now to execute custom functions locally in JavaScript or with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning services to create their own powerful additions to Excel's catalog of formulas. 

NPM package for Visio JavaScript APIs

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Visio team
Visio JavaScript APIs extend the capabilities of Visio Online by enabling developers to build rich mashup solutions to meet their organization’s specific needs. The solution needs to reference the Visio JavaScript library from the CDN location. This blog discusses how to install NPM and acquire IntelliSense definitions.

Replying to a Kaizala message or action

May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 05/3/18
Kaizala Developer Platform team
In this post, I will introduce the replyToReferenceId property that enables you to reply to a message or action (attachment, custom card, image, etc.) on Kaizala group. This is required when you want to have a threaded conversation using API [or] bot scenario where you want to reply to a specific user query.