I’m a Finnish Software Developer Entrepreneur living as a hermit on the beautiful Finnish countryside. Koskila.net is my personal professional (i.e. professional, but definitely personal) website.
More about me here: Koskila.net | Antti K. Koskela
On this site, I’m blogging about all kinds of exciting and/or tricky topics. Mostly just to write them down for myself.
See a few of my latest blog articles below:
- How to export a CSR you’ve created on Windows?Another thing that I run into every now and then is creating CSRs for different customer environments. Since the requests often end up being a bit complex with a lot of SANs (Subject Alternative Names), crafting them with OpenSSL (or other console tools) is a bit laborious for my liking,…Continue reading How to export a CSR you’ve created on Windows?
- How to output all Environment Variables in Azure DevOps with PowerShell?This article explains how to list all “Environment Variables” (that’s pipeline variables, job / stage variables, predefined variables and even local script variables that are mounted on to the agent as Environment Variables) using PowerShell in Azure DevOps.
- CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.This article explains one possibly reason why some C# code, powered by CSOM, suddenly stops working and can’t access a SharePoint list anymore that it could before, throwing annoying and misleading exceptions like “The list is not DocumentLibrary, VersionPolicies is not supported” instead. Oh – and of course, there’s a…Continue reading CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.
- “Predefined type ‘System.Object’ is not defined or imported” and other System namespace stuff missing in your solution?This article will explain how to fix an annoying situation, where Visual Studio fails to find any System types or other “basic” stuff you’re pretty sure your project should have, automagically, out-of-the-box, without you doing anything. Stuff that comes with .NET. Stuff that should just work. But life isn’t always…Continue reading “Predefined type ‘System.Object’ is not defined or imported” and other System namespace stuff missing in your solution?
What’s koskila.net about?
The tagline for my blogging efforts has been Solutions are worthless unless shared for quite a while already. That’s to say, since I’ve gotten a lot of help from the community whenever I’ve had issues getting something to work, I like to give something back. This blog is my way of doing that.
Blogging has been a great, lightweight way to sort my thoughts and document weird fixes and findings along the way. And boy, has there been a lot of them! Microsoft’s stack always keeps surprising me – mostly in a positive way, but there’s an occasional bump on the way too.
These are some of the topics I often write about: Azure Active Directory errors, Azure PowerShell errors, terrifying examples about how to open a modal dialog in SharePoint using JavaScript, all kinds of weird new Microsoft Azure -related tidbits of information, a bunch of Visual Studio -related (and other) tips and tricks, and of course the blog’s namesake – SharePoint Problems.
A lot of people seem to struggle with the same issues, as the blog recently had just shy of a million visitors in a year. Mind-blowing. May you find my thoughtful workarounds as useful as I have!
In addition to more technical posts, sometimes I might post about my sessions at different community events, or experiences as an expat living in a foreign country (in 2017, that country was the USA, in 2018 & 2019 Canada). Right before the pandemic, I moved back to Finland to live in the middle of a forest. Quite literally, as I need to somewhat regularly scare moose away or they’ll eat our apples and trample my robots. Our pests are large.
Speaking Gigs
Back in the olden days, when the world was not on fire, I used to travel to different events. Now it’s all digital, which is… Not quite the same.
You can also see a list of all my sessions and session materials.
Want to learn more? Check out the about me -page, page/post archive, the list of my blog posts (latest first) or contact me! :)