Monthly Update 2014 November
Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices project was announced on end of July 2014 and there has been tremendous interest for the project since, which has been great. We have received lot of valuable contributions from community and input on the overall planning. This wiki page is collecting the highlights from past month.
Be sure to also check the latest discussions from the Office 365 Patterns and Practices Yammer group at http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPYammer.
- NuGet packages are available! For SharePoint Online (version 16) use the OfficeDevPnP.Core NuGet package, for SharePoint On-Premises use the OfficeDevPnP.Core (on-premises) package
- PnP Core: Lots of refactoring done to improve code quality and completeness
- PnP Core: WebAPI 2 support has been added
- PnP Core: Improved publishing support
- PnP Core: Refactoring of the branding code, now allows for recursive apply of master pages and themes
- New sample Core.DocumentPicker allows to select documents from a library
- New sample Core.JSOM.Minicalendar SharePoint hosted app that shows calendar data
- New sample Workflow.CustomEvents shows how to create a workflow that waits for a custom event, which will be raised by a custom Page via JavaScript and using the JavaScript Client Object Model (JSOM) for the Workflow Services Manager library
- New sample UserProfile.Manipulation.CSOM Shows how to use the new CSOM API to update user profile properties
- New scenario Core.Services.Authenticate allows to seamlessly transfer the callers client context to a WebAPI 2 service
- New scenario Provisioning.SiteModifier shows how an app can be used to provide a dialog box in which users can make selections of artefacts to be added to the site the moment they need it
- Extended solution PowerShell.Commands several additional commands (publishing / javascript injection)
- Miscellaneous: folder documentation/Community Calls contains the decks of the monthly community calls
Here’s the list of most activate contributors (in alphabetical order) during the months October and November. We are looking forward to continue working with such a talent and hope to get more additional people involved on this joint effort o help the community in the transition towards Office 365 and SharePoint app model techniques.
- Cory Peters (http://www.corypeters.net)
- Eric Skaggs (http://www.skaggej.com)
- Erwin Van Hunen (Knowit AB) - @erwinvanhunen
- Henrik Gustafsson (Happy Solutions AB) - @SharePointHenke
- Luis Valencia (http://www.luisevalencia.com)
- Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com)
- Patrik Björklund (Alloc IT) - @pbjorklund
- Sly Gryphon (Readify) - sgryphon
- Stijn Neirinckx
- Vardhaman Deshpande (Content and Code) - vrdmn
Here’s the list of Microsoft people who have been closely involved on the PnP work during last month.
- Bert Jansen (Microsoft)
- Brian Michely (Microsoft) - @brianmichely
- Daniel Budimer (Microsoft)
- Frank Marasco (Microsoft) - @frank_marasco
- Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) - @jthake
- Richard diZerega (Microsoft) - @richdizz
- Suman Chakrabarti (Microsoft) - @sumanch
- Steve Walker (Microsoft) - @sharepointing
- Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) - @vesajuvonen
Here's some statistics from the PnP repository. It's great to see for example how our punch card looks like, since it proofs that this is truly a global effort with contributions 24/7.
