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Technical / November 16, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 4
In my previous posts I wrote about creating an office add-in using the Yeoman generator and my first add-in using Yo Office. Now as long as everything just works, these samples are doable. But when things start to go wrong, you can lose quit some time finding your way in the wonderfull world of add-ins.
Technical / November 9, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 8
I’ll immediately admit that I’m a Microsoftie. 100%. I have Visual Studio installed, feel at home in C# and get a rash sometimes from dealing with JavaScript nonsense. But let’s be honest, unless you’re not doing ANYTHING with the web it’s almost impossible to ignore trending technologies like nodejs, angular and all of the other frameworks
Technical / October 16, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
These last few years I made it a habit to visit TCFKASPC: The Conference Formerly Known As SharePoint Connections. This year it was relabeled Unity Connect after the IT Unity initiative founded by Dan Holme and others. I think two days of conference is a good way of submerging yourself into the latest and greatest,
Technical / October 16, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Just for my own reference, here is a list of loading indicator images you can use from the _layouts folder. Why there are more than one and they all look different is a very good question by the way, Microsoft should really spend a little bit of time to ensure these become consistent once and
Technical / October 2, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
OpenSearch is a search protocol which can be used in SharePoint to query systems other than SharePoint iself. You can find OpenSearch when configuring a new search result source. One of the most common examples is displaying Bing search results within SharePoint. You can find a great post on that topic by Jasper Oosterveld here.
Technical / September 21, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 24
In my previous O365 post, I showed how you can make use of jQuery and jQuery UI to make a search refiner filter template that supports autocomplete on the “other” textbox shown in a multivalued dropdown. With that idea in mind, I imagined it would be pretty easy to use the same concept to create
Technical / September 16, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 50
This is a short blog post for everyone owning an HTC 8X who got their phones bricked by the wrongly installed Windows Phone 10 update two days ago. I’m not taking any credit for this one as the solution was posted by Mevlüt Çayır in this thread on the Microsoft forums. When your phone is in
Technical / September 14, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 5
For a customer project I’m on we’re making use of search to surface pages stored in SharePoint Online. On a predefined search results page, refiners make it easier for users to get to the page they are searching for. Refiners are linked to managed search properties and those are linked to crawled properties. In this
Technical / September 7, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 9
In the project I’ve been working on the last few months, we had to import some list items and file into SharePoint coming from a legacy application which is being replaced by SharePoint Online. There is plenty of guidance available on how to do this, it boils down to using the CSOM API’s to upload
Technical / September 1, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 8
Today I crossed this error when building a solution from Visual Studio 2015. The signtool.exe is a tool which is used to sign applications (or dlls) so it can be traced back to a specific certificate. When you don’t use it, you don’t need to know but the error can be annoying. There is a