Reading Time: 8 minutes. Have you ever been struggling, to make your ASP.NET MVC views format your properties of type datetime correctly? I have. And I’ve been shot in the leg by weird hacks made by both me (just 6 months earlier) or someone else. So I thought I’d finally document the different ways one can set up the formatting of datetime fields in ASP.NET MVC projects. Or at least all the ways I’ve found so far! :) While this guide has been written for ASP.NET MVC, most of […]
Category: Tech Tips
Long story short:
- I encountered a technical problem
- I figured out a fix, a workaround or even an actual solution
- I posted it on the internet
This way, the next time I encounter the same issue, I’ll be able to find the solution easier by googling.
This category contains assorted tips, tricks and solutions regarding all the different workarounds and solutions related to technology pretty much in general.
SharePoint Search Console – Now available inside Chrome SP Editor!
Reading Time: 5 minutes. This post is about two of my favorite tools: Chrome SP Editor, and SharePoint Search Query tool. Or maybe better yet, an amalgamation of the two! Description I’ve mentioned the Chrome SP Editor before, and for a good reason. It’s a great tool for any IT Pro or Dev working with SharePoint on a daily basis. It’s maintained by a very talented developer, one of the people behind Valo Intranet, Tomi Tavela. If you’re using the tool, let him know on Twitter! But I’m not […]
Easily querying all the database and log file sizes on SQL Server
Reading Time: 2 minutes. Quite often you get the need to simply quickly query all the database sizes on MS SQL Server – most typically, for us, this need arises when a development machine gets low on disk space, and we need to check if some database’s log size has been growing, or if something else is wrong. In my daily work, I rarely encounter this requirement anymore. Azure has almost entirely obliterated the need for such diagnostics, since it’s so easy to spin up or scale up new […]
What is “fp.js” – and why is it snooping on your SharePoint usage?
Reading Time: 17 minutes. Microsoft is gathering all kinds of telemetric data out of the usage of SharePoint. I ran into an interesting JavaScript file, fp.js, on SharePoint Online doing just that. Gathering data. It loads on pretty much every single page request, so it’s something you’ll bump into anytime you open your developer tools! Your customer’s IT might even inquire about it – perhaps wanting to disable it for perfomance or information security gains? But what is fp.js and what does it do? Posts Related to “What is […]
Solving yet another “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException: Unknown Error”
Reading Time: 2 minutes. There’s maybe a thousand things that can throw an “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException”, but a bit smaller amount of things, that are ambiguous enough to be called “Unknown error”. This post describes one, fairly usual fix for this issue! But let’s get back to the beginning for a second – you get what and when now? When running any code, that provisions new sites (much like https://www.koskila.net/new-pnpsite-fails-with-sitestatus3/), you get an error like this almost immediately: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException: Unknown Error at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientRequest.ProcessResponseStream(Stream responseStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientRequest.ProcessResponse() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientRequest.ExecuteQueryToServer(ChunkStringBuilder sb) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext.ExecuteQuery() […]