Month: December 2011

Best wishes to all of you!

That’s that. Finished off my year quite well finally getting myself a ‘technology specialist’ status on SharePoint Application Development yesterday. And with that in my pocket, I’m all set for 2012 which promises to be a new year full of fresh adventures and new challenges. I hope you all have a good new year eve

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SPOnline: using feature upgrades

Ok so we’re building sandboxed solutions for SharePoint Online, great! Now suppose you’ve got your solution deployed and your customer starts working with it. All is well and of course they’re superpleased with you and start sending you gifts and stuff. But then, one day, you get a call: “hey, could you also add this

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SPOnline: error retracting solution

I came across this error when trying to deploy a sandboxed solution. The first step in the process is to retract the solution currently in the store, it there is one. That’s fine, but this caused an error. It took me some time to figure out what was happening, so perhaps this post will help

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SPOnline: deploying web templates

This is the first blog in a new series of blogs about SharePoint Online development. For those of you who don’t know yet: SharePoint Online comes with Office 365 and basically is a special version of SharePoint which is being hosted by Microsoft. There are some do’s and dont’s when developing solutions for SharePoint Online which I

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SharePoint 2010: deploying webservice to single webapplication

When you want to extend the default API functionality on your SharePoint site, you can add your own webservices to it. There are plenty of articles out there telling you how to do so. But they all have one thing in common; your SVC file mostly ends up in either the _layouts or _vti_bin virtual directories of

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New Visual Studio uservoice request

I already blogged about a Visual Studio uservoice request sometime ago. Now… I´M BACK! With a new and shiny one. This time it´s about the Visual Studio Team Foundation Service preview which is online since BUILD. If you haven´t tried it yet; do so. It’s a very powerfull system which combines your entire ALM (Application

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SharePoint 2010: Changing the cookie expiration for Forms Authentication

We have several claims based site on which we use Forms based authentication alongside Windows based authentication. The forms based users were regularly complaining that the “Remember me” checkbox “wasn’t working”. Well as usual, it seemed to work for me so at first, I blamed it on cookie policies, cleaner tools, stuff like that. But

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