Dreams of .DEV

With React in SPFx projects, Class Components provided 3 lifecycle methods that’d force re-rendering and give the ability for the developer to handle lifecycle within the scope of any particular component. [Read More]

In the not-so-distant past, we used to be able to retrieve SharePoint Page content Columns (inside Sections) and could count on them being in order. This appears to no longer be the case, necessitating a rework of understood functionality and some reflection (pun intended). [Read More]

I’ve observed today that SharePoint Communication Sites are no longer being provisioned with the default Site Assets Library. [Read More]

I noticed today that all of our SPFx solutions were throwing a compiler error within Visual Studio Code. Apparently the dataVersion getter included in the boilerplate of Yeoman scaffolded projects is suddenly incompatible. [Read More]

My previous post detailed how to use PowerShell to connect to your SharePoint tenant using SPO and PnP PowerShell and manipulate it with CSOM. In this post we will do something very similar using C# and CSOM from within a Console App using the .NET Framework. [Read More]

There are a multitude of ways to manipulate SharePoint, I will take the opportunity to give you a primer in connecting to your tenant using SPO and PnP PowerShell, and extending the default functionality with CSOM. [Read More]

I intend for this tutorial series to highlight what I believe to be some very important aspects of dealing with legacy ASP.NET Web Applications, how to modernise them with a wrapper of sorts that can handle things like JWT session/passport Authorisation, securely exposing the existing database as a data layer... [Read More]

In my previous post we discussed how we could go about styling browser dev tool console logging to assist with the initial triage of issues within our SPFx Extensions. [Read More]

SharePoint console logging can be a nightmare to trawl through with the amount of information and error logging Microsoft leaves in their production code. Locally serving SPFx Extensions for testing on live sites only compounds this. I’ve come across some simple functionality that I had no idea existed whereby you... [Read More]

It started two weeks ago. We were about to deploy a significant framework piece to a client environment that included, among many other components, an out of the box SharePoint List with custom Content Type. The Content Type includes multiple Managed Metadata Fields, all of which have default values selected... [Read More]