Righto, I want to get deeper into vanilla React development (outside of the scope of SharePoint). This will enable me to utilise all of my React skills for future endeavours. I will be scaffolding a new React app using TypeScript because I put great value on Type safety when working...
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SPFx React - scaffolding a new Extension project - Hello World!
Throughout recent blog posts, I’ve found myself continually referencing other peoples’ content when it comes to scaffolding of new SPFx projects. I don’t like to do that because they’re not in my normal style. I also don’t like to have to refer to other peoples’ content when I cough have...
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Creating many Pages using pre-configured Page Templates within SharePoint
First day back at work after a relaxing xmas break. I hope you’ve all had a good break yourselves. I want to touch on how to best utilise Custom Page Templates in Modern SharePoint, and how to use a CSV file to automate the provisioning of many such pages within...
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An objective look at SharePoint customisation
I’ve had a lot of time to reflect upon my career recently. You may not know from reading my content, but I never intended to become a SharePoint Developer, in fact, it was more or less forced upon me.
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Learning C++, the basics
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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