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).
Whilst building a proof-of-concept on .NET Core 3.0 preview 7 I ran into issues when developing web APIs. This release is production-ready (according to Microsoft -see below), but every now and then you run into really unintuitive and sometimes surprising issues. Go LiveNET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is supported by…Continue reading How to resolve build failing with .NET Core 3 and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Versioning
Instead of being stuck on whatever version your SPFx project was originally created with, it’s possible and sometimes required to upgrade it afterward to gain access to newer functionalities like integration with Microsoft Teams. This process, to me, is comparable to updating the .NET Framework version in your classic web…Continue reading How to update SharePoint Framework for an SPFx webpart?
I recently ran into an issue when developing Azure Functions locally. My SPFx webpart was configured to request information from my locally running Azure Function but suddenly started ending up in error. Browser only showed 404 for the first request (OPTIONS) the SPFx webpart was sending – although I knew…Continue reading Azure Functions failing on “OPTIONS” call? Quick fix!
This post describes how to fix the error, where when publishing Azure Functions or Azure App Services you get an error like this: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.” This is luckily another straightforward fix! Problem Azure Function Publish fails…Continue reading Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”
Is your Azure Web Application suffering from absolutely horrible load times every time someone accesses it for the first time every 15 minutes or so? Mine was. It was pitiful. I was developing a web-based service using EF6 and ASP.NET MVC 5, where all the assets were hosted in Azure.…Continue reading Solving Azure Web Application’s first load performance issues
This post describes how to fix the “Could not load file or assembly ‘[assemblyname]’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.” error. The solution described in this post shows you how to resolve the issue when you’re deploying from Visual…Continue reading Fixing the “Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies” error
In this post, I’ll try to archive everything that you need to download and install to get commandlets like Connect-MsolService working. I’ve had to do it a couple of times when changing laptops, so it’s good to document them somewhere! :) So, when would you need to follow this guide…Continue reading Getting Connect-MsolService (and other Azure Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets) to work
This post describes the actual, working, and the 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…Continue reading Remove-SPODeletedSite – Actually removing a SharePoint Online Site Collection
In this post, I outline a simple way to stop SharePoint (either on-premises installation or SharePoint Online) from redirecting to Delve or MySites (respectively). 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…Continue reading Disabling Delve/MySite redirection from SharePoint Site Collections
This post describes how to run Entity Framework’s code-first migrations against a database located in Windows Azure. This is done by running the 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…Continue reading Applying Entity Framework’s Code-First Migrations against a Database in Azure by running Update-Database
