Reading Time: 4 minutes. This post describes the actual, working and fast process of removing a site collection in SharePoint Online using the Remove-SPODeletedSite commandlet in SharePoint Online Management Shell (a flavor of PowerShell). Description Sometimes you need to get rid of a site collection you’ve created in SharePoint Online. The most typical example perhaps being removing the team site created for a group of people working together. That’s pretty simple and there are a few ways of doing that. For example, you might just go ahead, and delete the site […]
Category: Development environment
This category mostly contains hacks and workarounds that are definitely not needed, recommended, or even safe in production environments. So, beware – don’t apply or run these against your production at all. These should be limited to the development environment only.
These posts are arguably closely related to my other category, software development (or DevTips).
Disabling Delve/MySite redirection from SharePoint Site Collections
Reading Time: 2 minutes. In this post I instruct a simple way to stop SharePoint (either on-premises installation or SharePoint Online) from redirecting to MySites or Delve. The normal behavior is, that this happens when users click any name of a user anywhere in SharePoint. This is often not desired, and sometimes just confusing or impractical. Problem If your customers are like mine, a lot of them hate Delve or MySite or both. Or maybe they just are’nt willing to yet adopt Delve. Or maybe they just want to […]
Applying Entity Framework’s Code-First Migrations against a Database in Azure by running Update-Database
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post describes how to run Entity Framework’s code-first migrations against a database located in the Windows Azure. This is done by running Update-Database commandlet with suitable switches, see below. The problem and symptoms Okay, so you’re developing your MVC+EF cool web app with a database in Azure, and you’re using code-first migrations. Cool! What’s nice with code-first-migrations is the fact they are run automatically even in the cloud the next time your app is running (as long as you publish your app with that […]
Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post describes one of the more no-brainerish ways of fixing a ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ exceptions being thrown in your ASP.Net MVC application using C# and Entity Framework. Problem While developing a web project, for example an ASP.NET MVC web application which is using EF, sometimes when handling a lot of data or complex entities on your dev machine, you encounter this error: OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.] System.Text.StringBuilder.ToString() +35 System.IO.StreamReader.ReadToEnd() +123 System.Web.Optimization.BundleFile.ApplyTransforms() +74 System.Web.Optimization.DefaultBundleBuilder.BuildBundleContent(Bundle bundle, BundleContext context, IEnumerable`1 files) +472 System.Web.Optimization.Bundle.GenerateBundleResponse(BundleContext context) +127 System.Web.Optimization.Bundle.GetBundleResponse(BundleContext […]
Solving the “Spatial types and functions are not available …” -problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes. This page describes mutiple ways on how to fix the exception ‘Spatial types and functions are not available for this provider because the assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Types’ version 10 or higher could not be found.‘ which comes up during debugging or publishing your program, app or service using DbGeography. Symptoms While running a console program or perhaps installing an ASP.NET MVC website on a machine, where SQL Server (apart from the one that comes with the Visual Studio) has not been installed, you may encounter the following error: […]