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Sandboxed To-Do List Web Part on Office 365 – SharePoint Online
Today I received my Office 365 account, so I thought it would be cool to check out if my sandbox web part, that I have created some time ago, is working on SharePoint Online. Here is the link to the...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Adding an Active Directory Group Through the Permissions Web Service
When working with the addpermission method from the permissions.asmx web service, you have the possibility to add permissions to a list or site for users or groups. When you specify a group as...
View ArticleDeveloping Apps (SharePoint Conference SPC12 – Live Blog)
This is a live blog of my first day at the pre-conference training: Start Building Apps for Office and SharePoint Today. Session is given by Kirk Evans. The post Developing Apps (SharePoint Conference...
View ArticleCustomizing Sites and Pages in SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Conference – SPC12)
This session will cover an overview of how to customize SharePoint 2013 sites and pages – similar to the activities you would have used SharePoint Designer for with the 2010 platform. These...
View ArticleAjax Refresh Item Row(s) in a SharePoint 2013 View
When examining the JS Link problem that was described in my previous blog post, I found a nifty piece of code. The code allows you to do an Ajax refresh for a single item row or for the item rows in...
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Check if your mail app is opened in Outlook Web App or Outlook rich client
During the development for my proof of concept mail app, I needed to know in which context my app was running. By default you have the option to set the startpage for the desktop, tablet or mobile view...
View ArticleDisplaying the user’s profile picture in your Office 365 add-in
For one of our internal Office 365 add-ins I wanted to display the user's profile picture via the Office 365 Unified APIs. Note: At the moment there is not much documentation about the Unified API and...
View ArticleWe need your votes for Hack Productivity Hackatlon
Currently the public voting for the Hack Productivy hackatlon from Microsoft is still open for 3 more days. Together with a colleague, we developed an application and add-in to make the lives of our...
View ArticleQuick tip: open folder with Visual Studio Code from context menu
I really like using Visual Studio Code, but one thing I really missed was a way to open a folder from the Windows Explorer context menu. By default, if you right-click on a file, you get the option to...
View ArticleCreate an Azure Function to update your Azure Search Index
A couple of months ago I switch from the default WordPress search functionality to Azure search. In order to update my Azure search index, I created a web job which runs every hour and adds or updates...
View ArticleA new way of developing display templates
Creating display templates for SharePoint is a fairly easy job, but we all have our own ways of developing them. Over the last couple of months, I barely touched managed code. Everything I do these...
View ArticleSample Node.js SharePoint webhook application released
A month ago Microsoft announced that the SharePoint webhook functionality is available in developer preview Info: here is the official article - SharePoint Webhooks Developer Preview - Now Available!...
View ArticleGetting up to speed with webpack
After the introduction of Node.js, npm, Gulp and Yeoman. It is time to spend some time on another tool called webpack. Webpack is a module bundler and is one of the tools which is used in the building...
View ArticleAutomate publishing of your SharePoint Framework scripts to Office 365 public...
Last year Microsoft announce the Office 365 public CDN capability. This is CDN option from Office 365 is a great way for you to host your assets like images or JavaScript files. Most important, this is...
View ArticleAutomate publishing of your SharePoint Framework solution package deployment
This article is an addition to my previous one about how to automate the publication process of your JavaScript file to Office 365 public CDN. Related article: Automate publishing of your SharePoint...
View ArticleSetting up Azure Storage for local develop of timer or queue triggered Azure...
These days I use Azure Functions quite a lot for automating things. Since the general availability of Azure Functions which was announcement back in November 2016, they are becoming even more popular...
View ArticleGet to know who is tracking your mails via the Microsoft Graph and Azure...
We all get a lot of emails every day. Did you know that some of these emails are being tracked by others? There are various kinds of email trackers available, most of them work by inserting hidden...
View ArticleUse build and release pipelines in VSTS to automate your SharePoint Framework...
A while ago I wrote two articles about how you can automate the publishing process of your SharePoint Framework scripts and solution package via custom gulp tasks. Info: you can find the articles here...
View ArticleSharePoint Framework snippets extension for Visual Studio Code
Today I published a new Visual Studio Code extension that gives you some handy SharePoint Framework code snippets. The first version of the extension only contains a handful snippets but will grow over...
View ArticleSharePoint Framework Script Check extension for Visual Studio Code
I published another extension for your SharePoint Framework solution to check your scripts and correctly reference the external JavaScript libraries in your solutions. The extension is powered by the...
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