The blog side of things has been a little quiet of late. My workplace has been experiencing a downturn in the amount of custom development that’s been happening as clients in this region appear to be moving away from custom solutions, to the detriment of my development skills. It’s time...
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Consuming the shared package - SPFx projects and Shared Libraries - 5th and final, I promise...
When we left off last time, we’d just finished up configuring a DevOps CI Pipeline and (hopefully) run a successful build which published a package to our Azure Artifact Feed that’s going to act as our npm Registry override. Today we’re going to cover actually using that package our SPFx...
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CI Pipeline and npm package - SPFx projects and Shared Libraries - May the 4th be with you ;)
I cannot believe that it’s been a month since I last posted about this topic. It’s time to finish it off before I forget how I have gone about building, bundling and using this shared code project.
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Learning Blazor - numero uno
How many times have you installed the Visual Studio 2019 preview this week?
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Retrieving SharePoint Choice Field options in SPFx using REST
I came across a scenario recently whereby I needed to retrieve all choice field options from a field before a specific SPFx WebPart had loaded onto the page. The reason for this was that I had to pre-populate the Property Pane configuration with the choices to allow for the end-user...
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Removing SharePoint Page Sections using PnP PowerShell
A scenario came up at work today which I actually had an answer for, and I thought to myself wow, this might make a nice quick blog post… so here goes.
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Improving my understanding of the SharePoint APIs
My previous understanding was that separate API requests to the term store were necessary in order to decorate what’s returned from the Pages library. I was a noob back then, still am in some respects, but this post highlights that I am still learning and retaining.
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Upgrading SPFx projects to version 1.8
As you’re no doubt already aware, Microsoft announced the GA release of version 1.8 of the SharePoint Framework in the middle of last month. If you’ve not seen it, here’s a link to the release notes for your perusal.
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The build - SPFx projects and Shared Libraries - iii
When we left off last time, I’d highlighted an issue I had faced whereby there was no supported way to build a shared code package within the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) at that time. I rambled on about what had happened, why this approach was chosen, etc. I also realised that...
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Addicted to SourceTree - is that bad?
I’ll preface this with a story.
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