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Miscellaneous / February 10, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Since I’ve been working on SharePoint Online, and thus Sandboxed Solutions, I noticed a lack in the development tools. Where the CKS extensions for Visual Studio offer the option to choose “Upgrade” as a development method, this doesn’t work on sandboxed solutions. The upgrade process for sandboxed solutions is different; you need to upload your
Technical / January 24, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
There are a lot of things which can cause your search index not to work. Check that the credentials for the content access accounts are correct. Also check that this account has enough rights to access and query the content you want it to index. Make sure the URL of the site is in one
Technical / January 17, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today I was working on an old SharePoint 2007 project which heavily uses the SharePoint webservices. That implies using a lot of XML as input and output for those services. At one point I had to extract some info from the XML fragment being returned. The function returned an XElement. This type of object can be
Technical / January 12, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Each time Europe passes the DST dates and goes from summertime to wintertime (as we call it), weird things happen with software. Although you might think they should have this thing down by now, it just keeps on being an issue and causing problems. This year, one of our users reported scheduled alerts not being
Technical / January 11, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today I was working on a SharePoint site which uses a custom Site Definition. Ok, maybe you’ll think “shouldn’t you be using a web template instead? ’cause site definitions suck when you need to update”. You’re right. And therefore we’re only using stapled features to deploy content, and we could as well use a web
Technical / January 3, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Today I came across a dangerous pitfall when working with Linq for SharePoint 2010. For those of you who are not familiar with it; there is a tool called spmetal you can use to generate a Linq DataContext class for your SharePoint site. This works pretty good; you can use the Server Explorer to browse
Social / December 31, 2011 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / December 28, 2011 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / December 27, 2011 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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
Technical / December 27, 2011 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
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