1. From SharePoint to Office 365 Development
The path to your new playground
Sébastien Levert

2. Sponsors
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3. Hi! I’m Seb!
@sebastienlevert | | Product Evangelist & Partner Manager at

4. Agenda
Mindset
Technology
Roadmap
Next Steps

5. Mindset

6. Become a web developer
SharePoint is a web platform, consider it like any other
Think Cross-Platform and multiple devices
Client-Side technologies is the future of web development, so it is with SharePoint and Office 365 Development
Leverage APIs instead of direct connection to data

7. Pretend to live in the cloud
Microsoft learns from the cloud to enhance their On-Premises solutions, that is a great option for you too
Think differently with cloud approaches and techniques
Be up for the challenge by developing cloud-first for any solution
Use Office 365 as your main development environment

8. Move fast Stay up to date with newest and greatest web technologies
Don’t hesitate to change and evolve with technology
Be curious, try things, fail fast
Embrace agile methodologies

9. Technology

10. Integration opportunities
Office Add-Ins
Cross-platform development
PC or Mac / Web / Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
Multiple core software where to integrate
Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook / Project / Visio
Connected experiences with HTML / JavaScript
Using Visual Studio native experience
Using Open Source alternatives (yo office)

11. Demo

12. Integration opportunities
SharePoint
Using modern integration UI hooks
JavaScript / CSS injection based on Custom Actions
Using modern server hooks
Webhooks with SharePoint to perform actions on list-based events
Using the SharePoint Framework
Client-Side Framework to build on top of native SharePoint Experiences
Limited to Client-Side Webparts for the moment but more is coming !

13. Demo

14. Integration opportunities
Office 365 Apps
Leverage your Office 365 data by creating an external application
Technology-agnostic as you can develop in your preferred platform
Manage the lifecycle by communicating with Office 365 using its APIs
Integrate to the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem thanks to the App Launcher

15. Demo

16. Technology stack JavaScript Using the latest versions of the standards
TypeScript
ECMAScript 5 & 6
Using UI frameworks to build better applications faster
React
Knockout
AngularJS
Office UI Fabric
Gaining access to all open source frameworks that will make you more productive
As a universal language to allow you to create code for the client & for the server

17. Demo

18. Technology stack NodeJS As a web server to replace IIS
As a package manager to replace NuGet packaged
As a scaffolder to easily create files and folder structures to replace Visual Studio
As a task runner to automate tasks of your development workflow
As a bundler to package your files to replace MSBuild
As a server-side language to perform data access or complex logics

19. Technology stack .NET (Core)
As a web server to host static files and DLLs
As a server-side language to perform data access or complex logics
As a server-side language to perform event-based actions
As the only valid way to communicate with a SharePoint environment no matter where he is located with CSOM

20. Technology stack Microsoft Azure Leverage the App Service components
Azure Functions to perform on-demand access to Office 365 data and to complete the SharePoint webhooks story
Web Apps to host HTML / JavaScript files or server side components like Web APIs
Leverage the Content Delivery Network component to distribute your assets
Leverage Azure AD Applications to control the access to your data sources
SharePoint & Exchange Online
OneDrive for Business
Microsoft Graph …
Leverage Visual Studio Team Services for automated builds and release management

21. Demo +

22. Perfect Office 365 developer toolkit
Client-Side technologies
Visual Studio Code
SharePoint Framework Yeoman generator
Office Add-Ins Yeoman generator
Office UI Fabric (including the React components)
webpack
Server-Side technologies
Office 365 Patterns & Practices
PnP-Core
PnP-PowerShell
Azure
NodeJS

23. Roadmap

24. Same concepts, new patterns
Requirement
Classic component
Technologies involved
Modern component
Integrate custom component in the Office Suite
Office Add-On (Desktop only)
COM, VSTO & Visual Studio
Office Add-Ins (Any platform)
HTML, JavaScript, NodeJS & Yeoman
Add a reusable component in a SharePoint page
SharePoint web parts
.NET, WSP Packages, Visual Studio
SharePoint Framework Client-Side web parts
NodeJS, TypeScript, webpack
Act on a list event in SharePoint
SharePoint event receivers
SharePoint webhooks
Any server technology
Deploy artifacts (columns, content types) to SharePoint
SharePoint Feature Framework
.NET, XML, WSP Packages, Visual Studio, PowerShell
Remote Provisioning
PnP Provisioning Engine, XML, PowerShell
Expose SharePoint data to another application
SharePoint WebService / WCF / Handler
.NET, XML, WSP Packages, Visual Studio
Web API / Azure Function
NodeJS, .NET (PnP-Core), Office 365 API / Microsoft Graph

25. Same concepts, new patterns
Requirement
Classic component
Technologies involved
Modern component
Have a complete page experience that replaces the regular SharePoint UI
SharePoint “Layouts” Page
.NET, ASP.NET, WSP Packages, Visual Studio
Office 365 Apps
Any server-side technology, Office 365 APIs / Microsoft Graph, Azure AD Application
Give users templated sites that can be easily created
SharePoint Site Templates
PnP Provisioning Engine
Azure Web App, Office 365 API, CSOM
Run scheduled actions on SharePoint
SharePoint Timer Job
.NET, WSP Packages, Visual Studio
Azure Web Job / Azure Function
Azure Web App (Web Job) / Azure Function, Office 365 API, .NET, CSOM
Manage your SharePoint environment remotely
SharePoint PowerShell Cmdlets
.NET, PowerShell
Remote SharePoint CSOM calls
PnP PowerShell, CSOM
Deploy a new feature to SharePoint
Visual Studio Team Services
PnP PowerShell, CSOM, Automated Builds, Release Management

26. Minimal path to awesome
Learn JavaScript
Stop developing anything server-side directly into SharePoint
Leverage the integration opportunities that suit your requirement
Come closer to the Information Worker with Office Add-Ins
Leverage modern experiences in SharePoint
Powerful applications should use Office 365 as a data source with Office 365 Apps
Have a look to Azure opportunities to complement your applications

27. Full roadmap to success
Learn JavaScript
Understand the tooling ecosystem that exists around modern web development
Yeoman to create your projects and initialize your task runners and bundlers
Get to know the modern development workflow using local resources thanks to NodeJS local development server
Use npm to manage your packages
Leverage the Microsoft Graph and the Office 365 APIs instead of querying directly SharePoint data
At this point, you will be fully functional to create Office Add-Ins and Office 365 Apps

28. Full roadmap to success
Learn and use the PnP Provisioning Engine to do any deployment
Learn and use the PnP PowerShell Cmdlets to do any operation on SharePoint
Learn and use the JavaScript Injection approach for your web parts
Learn CSOM and use the PnP-Core extensions
Develop your SharePoint code outside SharePoint
At this point, you will be fully functional to enhance your SharePoint environment (On-Premises or in the Cloud) and have a modern supported approach

29. Full roadmap to success
Learn TypeScript
Learn the SharePoint Framework
React
Webpack
Office UI Fabric
Play and use the Microsoft Graph and the Office 365 APIs instead of querying directly SharePoint data
At this point, you will be fully functional to create new experiences using the SharePoint Framework in SharePoint Online

30. Next Steps

31. Resources https://dev.office.com https://graph.microsoft.io

32. Samples https://github.com/officedev https://github.com/microsoftgraph

33. Share your experience Use hashtags to share your experience
#Office365Dev
#MicrosoftGraph
Contribute and ask question to the Microsoft Tech Community
Log issues & questions to the GitHub Repositories

34. Sponsors
Special Thanks:

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36. Thank you!
@sebastienlevert | | Product Evangelist & Partner Manager at